Feb 15, 2021 3:36 PM
What To Stream This Week
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
SFJAZZ is set to stream duo performances by pianist Kenny Barron on Friday.
Feb 15, 2021 3:36 PM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Trumpeter Jaimie Branch—along with bassist Luke Stewart and altoist Devin Brahja Waldman—is set to stream a Thursday performance.
Jan 27, 2021 9:53 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Vocalist Alicia Hall Moran is set to interpret portions of the Motown catalog during a Friday streaming performance.
Jan 8, 2021 11:21 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Veronica Swift has both a historical connection to the music and a desire to expand its artistic purview.
Dec 3, 2020 8:58 AM
Welcome to our enthusiastic, optimistic look at the future.
Below, DownBeat presents short profiles of two dozen…
Bassist Luke Stewart is among the 25 artists DownBeat thinks will help shape jazz in the decades to come.
Nov 17, 2020 8:46 AM
The very act of identifying Luke Stewart’s latest project is exhausting. Rarely is there just one.
The prolific…
Pianist Joey Alexander is set to stream a performance on Friday.
Oct 2, 2020 9:49 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Luke Stewart is set to stream a Thursday performance.
Sep 11, 2020 8:58 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Saxophonist Sharel Cassity and multi-disciplinary artist Richard Johnson are set to stream a July 12 show as part of the Sunday Night Jazz Series presented by The Hyde Park Jazz Festival in partnership with the Hyde Park Jazz Society.
Jul 13, 2020 10:13 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Protesters march June 6 in Washington, D.C., following the police killing of George Floyd.
Jul 1, 2020 10:52 AM
Jazz singer and activist Aaron Myers was among the demonstrators who gathered to protest at Lafayette Square on June 1…
Mark Guiliana performs during Winter Jazzfest, which ran at various venues in Manhattan and Brooklyn between Jan. 8 and 18.
Feb 3, 2020 4:47 PM
Winter JazzFest’s already tremendous musical scope has been widening in recent years to include crucial ideas and…
Saxophonist Hanna Paulsberg (left), vocalist Rohey Taalah and bassist Ellen Andrea Wang perform as Gurls during A l’arme! Festival, which ran July 31-Aug. 3 in Berlin.
Sep 5, 2019 10:31 AM
From its very beginnings jazz has functioned like a stylistic blob, driven by its practitioners to absorb, assimilate…
Warren “Trae” Crudup III (left) and Luke Stewart released Blacks’ Myths (Atlantic Rhythms) on June 25.
May 30, 2019 1:32 PM
Luke Stewart has become a ubiquitous presence in Washington, D.C. He plays electric or upright bass in one of nine…