Dec 14, 2021 4:23 PM
The Resilience of Other Minds 25
The mood at Other Minds 25 — an anniversary celebration for Other Minds, the San Francisco-based arts organization…
Sylvie Courvoisier, piano, and Mary Halvorson, guitar, perform at Other Minds.
Dec 14, 2021 4:23 PM
The mood at Other Minds 25 — an anniversary celebration for Other Minds, the San Francisco-based arts organization…
Nate Wooley
Dec 8, 2021 3:28 PM
Jazzfest Berlin returned to in-person concerts Nov. 4–7 with the 58th edition of the acclaimed arts organization’s…
Mary Halvorson remained busy during the pandemic year, releasing a new album with her group Code Girl, as well as with the trio Thumbscrew.
Dec 11, 2020 10:50 AM
Since her debut on record about 15 years ago, guitarist and composer Mary Halvorson has stood out. A fierce…
Terri Lyne Carrington, who topped three categories in the 2020 DownBeat Critics Poll, is the first female instrumentalist to win the Jazz Artist of the Year category.
Jul 6, 2020 5:39 PM
Trailblazing drummer and bandleader Terri Lyne Carrington has made history numerous times in her career, and the…
May 26, 2020 11:04 AM
If Ethan Iverson’s able to draw on an interest in TV themes, there’s potentially a way for anyone stuck at home to…
Exploratory guitarist Mary Halvorson is among the 2019 MacArthur Foundation fellows.
Sep 25, 2019 10:06 AM
The MacArthur Foundation announced its 2019 fellows today, and among them is guitarist Mary Halvorson.
New…
On Taylor Ho Bynum’s The Ambiguity Manifesto, members of his 9-tette, all respected improvisers and bandleaders, help make the bandleader’s shapeshifting pieces possible.
Sep 18, 2019 10:18 AM
Taylor Ho Bynum has spent his career navigating the intersection of structure and improvisation.
“I’ve always…
John Zorn performs his Hermetic Organ piece earlier in June at Jazz Festival Ljubljana, an event that unspooled 14 sets of the composer’s Bagatelles rendered by various New York musicians.
Jun 27, 2019 11:12 AM
Jazz Festival Ljubljana owns the distinction of being Europe’s oldest continuously run jazz festival—originally…
Tom Rainey performs at the 2016 unerhört! Festival in Zürich, Switzerland.
May 30, 2019 9:27 AM
Drummer and bandleader Tom Rainey isn’t stuck. He’s not jaded and doesn’t come across like he’s taking himself…
Pianist Amy K. Bormet founded the Washington Women in Jazz Festival in 2011. The festival returns March 10-31.
Mar 7, 2019 10:22 AM
Pianist Amy K. Bormet was hoping to create a grassroots network of female jazz musicians in Washington, D.C., when she…
Reedist Ingrid Laubrock said she relishes the freedom that comes with recording for independent labels like Relative Pitch and Germany’s Intakt, but remains skeptical of the music industry’s digital shift.
Jan 3, 2019 10:41 AM
Less and less, you dole out a buck per cut, $10 per album; more and more, you access a streaming service for a nominal…
Mary Halvorson performs at JazzFest Berlin, which ran Nov. 1-4 in Berlin, Germany.
May 30, 2019 2:08 PM
A festival is supposed to be too much of a good thing. An overabundance, for example, of garlic in Gilroy, California,…
Bassist Greg Cohen (from left), trumpeter Dave Douglas, drummer Joey Baron and saxophonist John Zorn perform as Masada at Jazz Em Agosto in Lisbon, Portugal.
Aug 13, 2018 11:35 AM
This annual festival in Lisbon, Portugal, long programmed by Rui Neves, consistently has offered one of Europe’s most…
R+R=Now performs at the DC Jazz Festival in June.
Jul 25, 2018 10:28 AM
Summer proved to be a propitious time for Maurice Jackson and Blair A. Ruble to promote their new book, DC Jazz:…
María Grand’s new disc is being released through Biophilia Records.
Jun 27, 2018 1:04 PM
On the first full-length album from Swiss saxophonist María Grand, the human voice is presented with equal importance…
Ambrose Akinmusire and Kris Davis perform in New York at Vision Festival, which ran May 23-28.
Jul 5, 2018 4:34 PM
“The bad guys, the expletive, blanket-y blanks—those guys are busy messing up our lives,” Vision Festival founder…
Hardanger fiddler Nils Økland adds a special brand of minimalism to his indigenous Norwegian instrument while improvising as a member of the trio 1982.
Apr 10, 2018 2:54 PM
Versatile Danish drummer Kresten Osgood was getting busy during a solo gig at the Vossa Jazz Festival, deploying his…
Pianist Jason Moran and percussionist Milford Graves perform as a duo during the Big Ears Festival, which ran March 22–25 in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Apr 10, 2018 5:40 PM
With every annual installment, the Big Ears Festival feels more and more like several festivals under a single banner.…
Jazz em Agosto, a festival in Lisbon, Portugal, is celebrating John Zorn’s career as part of the 35th edition of the event.
Mar 23, 2018 12:45 PM
To mark its 35th anniversary, Jazz em Agosto, a festival in Lisbon, Portugal, has devised a tribute to John Zorn.
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Guitarist Mary Halvorson (left) and cellist Tomeka Reid perform as part of Taylor Ho Bynum’s 9-tette at a Hartford, Connecticut, show on March 2.
Mar 9, 2018 1:03 PM
New Haven-based cornetist-composer Taylor Ho Bynum brought his 9-tette to Real Art Ways in Hartford, Connecticut, on…
Improvising cellist Okkyung Lee is scheduled to play in a variety of different settings at the upcoming Big Ears festival in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Mar 8, 2018 9:27 AM
The Big Ears festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, is set to return March 22-25 with performances by jazz luminaries like…
The Chicago Jazz Fest (left) and Detroit Jazz Fest will take place over Labor Day Weekend. Admission to both festivals is free.
Sep 3, 2017 8:43 PM
Jazz fans within earshot of Chicago and Detroit might want to pack up the car and head into town, as both cities play…
Matt Wilson (pictured) will lead a tribute to Illinois-born poet Carl Sandburg at the Chicago Jazz Festival on Sept. 3.
Aug 31, 2017 3:04 PM
The Chicago Jazz Festival returns to the Windy City Aug. 31–Sept. 3 with a lineup heavy on tributes and…
Mary Halvorson held a residency at the Village Vanguard in Manhattan from July 18–23.
Jul 26, 2017 9:38 AM
In her first week-long headlining appearance in the hallowed Village Vanguard (she had previously appeared with her…
Wadada Leo Smith topped three categories in the DownBeat Critics Poll: Trumpet, Jazz Artist and Jazz Album (for America’s National Parks).
Jun 29, 2017 3:26 PM
Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and guitarist Mary Halvorson are among the artists who topped multiple categories in the…
Dave Douglas (left) performs with John Zorn. The pair recently collaborated during an improv session at the Stone, Zorn’s East Village arts venue set to move across town next year.
Jun 6, 2017 8:20 AM
It was just a few months ago that John Zorn announced that The Stone, his understated avant-garde venue in…
Mary Halvorson will make her leader debut at the Village Vanguard in New York City July 18–23.
May 16, 2017 9:58 PM
Playing at the Village Vanguard in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village—the downstairs club that has been the home of 132…
Wadada Leo Smith was named Musician of the Year in the 2017 Jazz Journalism Awards.
May 16, 2017 4:08 PM
The Jazz Journalists Association has announced the winners of its 21st annual Jazz Awards, celebrating 41 categories…
Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley and James McNew of Yo La Tengo
Mar 29, 2017 9:18 AM
Yo La Tengo has a song called “The Story Of Jazz,” and lyric-wise, it really has nothing to do with swing or its…
Edmar Castañeda
Mar 22, 2017 9:26 AM
“My only advice,” said Winter JazzFest cofounder Adam Schatz to an audience at New York’s New School on Jan. 7,…
Mantana Roberts (clockwise, from left), Ingrid Laubrock, Eve Risser, Myra Melford, Mary Halvorson and Mette Henriette will appear at the Berlin Jazz Festival.
Oct 18, 2016 2:12 PM
Turning 53 this year, the Berlin Jazz Festival—aka JazzFest Berlin—is one the oldest on the jazz circuit. It continues…
Code Girl is a new vocal ensemble that performs songs by Mary Halvorson (pictured). The group appeared at the Jazz Gallery June 10–11.
Sep 20, 2018 4:43 PM
This year, in response to complaints about a lack of guitarists in its commissioned residency series, Manhattan’s…
Marc Ribot (left) and Joe Henry perform at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, on April 1.
Apr 21, 2016 2:42 PM
One of the hallmarks of the annual Big Ears Festival, held each spring in Knoxville, Tennessee, is collaboration. This…
Marc Ribot (left) and Joe Henry perform at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, on April 1. (Photo: Bill Foster/Big Ears Festival)
Jun 28, 2016 1:19 PM
One of the hallmarks of the annual Big Ears Festival, held each spring in Knoxville, Tennessee, is collaboration. This…
