Jan 9, 2024 12:54 PM
Blue Note Quintet to Tour in Support of Label’s 85th Year
The Blue Note Quintet, an all-star collective of Blue Note recording artists, will embark on an extensive North…
The Blue Note Quintet includes Gerald Clayton, Immanuel Wilkins, Joel Ross, Kendrick Scott and Matt Brewer. The all-star collective embarks on a North American tour this month.
Jan 9, 2024 12:54 PM
The Blue Note Quintet, an all-star collective of Blue Note recording artists, will embark on an extensive North…
“I guess that’s my personality: On the outside I’m very mellow, but, inside, my brain is going 100 miles a minute,” says Scott.
May 23, 2023 1:28 PM
Kendrick Scott loves harmony at least as much as he loves rhythm, possibly more. “To me, one of the most beautiful…
Robert Glasper
Sep 28, 2021 2:52 PM
Keyboardist, composer and jazz party starter Robert Glasper begins a jam-packed, star-studded, 33-day residency at the…
Whether riffing on his latest album, his dynastic jazz family, his formative experiences in Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, his teaching experiences, his interest in science or his love of sports, Branford Marsalis speaks his truth.
Jan 6, 2020 11:38 AM
During 2019, DownBeat published hundreds of articles and album reviews. What’s below, though, are some features and…
Vocalist Gregory Porter performs at the Funchal Jazz Festival, which ran July 11-13, in Madeira, an archipelago southwest of Portugal.
Jul 22, 2019 12:11 PM
Madeira is a volcanically formed, mountainous archipelago of sweeping hillsides and winding streets chockablock with…
Drummer Kendrick Scott wrestles with self-doubt on his latest album, A Wall Becomes A Bridge (Blue Note).
Apr 15, 2020 9:44 AM
On an unseasonably warm May night in Portland, Oregon, members of Oracle, the post-bop quintet led by drummer Kendrick…
Robert Glasper (left), Derrick Hodge and Kendrick Scott perform following a screening of the documentary Blue Note Records: Beyond The Notes at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 23.
Jun 6, 2019 12:33 PM
UPDATE: The theatrical run begins June 14 in New York at Metrograph. June 28, the film opens in Los Angles at Laemmle…
Pianist and vocalist Alina Engibaryan included only one cover on her recently released sophomore album, We Are.
Mar 1, 2018 1:47 PM
Pianist and vocalist Alina Engibaryan recently issued We Are on Feb. 16. And today, she debuts a video for a live…
Amina Claudine Myers performs at The New School’s 12th Street Auditorium on Jan. 6 during Winter Jazzfest.
Jan 17, 2017 3:55 PM
For all its eminence on the New York scene—the first jazz festival of the year, with over 150 acts across a dozen…
Kendrick Scott demonstrates Sensory Percussion, a new drum trigger by Sunhouse, at Threes Brewing in Brooklyn on July 21.
Aug 24, 2016 2:43 PM
The drum company Sunhouse presented a riveting showcase for its new product, the Sensory Percussion drum trigger, on…
