Dec 8, 2020 4:12 PM
The DownBeat 2020 Gift Guide
If you’re shopping for gifts this holiday season, DownBeat has got you covered with our 2020 Holiday Gift Guide.
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A four-disc Charles Mingus set is a highlight of our seasonal shopping guide for music fanatics.
Dec 8, 2020 4:12 PM
If you’re shopping for gifts this holiday season, DownBeat has got you covered with our 2020 Holiday Gift Guide.
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Mary Lou Williams’ long, fruitful career is lovingly chronicled by Tammy L. Kernodle in Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams, which has been published in paperback for the first time.
Dec 7, 2020 1:13 PM
Mary Lou Williams was an idiosyncratic composer, arranger and pianist whose 60-plus-year career remains ruthlessly hard…
A live Alice Coltrane recording from 1972 marks a turning point in her music.
Jun 12, 2020 8:50 AM
Festivals in the States still aren’t happening, though some in Europe are moving ahead despite the uncertainty around…
Co-artistic Director Derrick Hodge performed multiple sets with various ensembles during the 62nd Monterey Jazz Festival, which ran Sept. 27-29 in Monterey, California.
Oct 8, 2019 10:17 AM
On the Jimmy Lyons Stage at the Monterey Jazz Festival, which ran Sept. 27-29 in Monterey, California,…
Released in conjunction with a companion video series, Roxy Coss’ Quintet draws from her entire catalog and ranks as the the follow-up to The Future Is Female, the bandleader’s provocative response to the 2016 elections.
Sep 4, 2019 9:58 AM
Though she’s only 33, saxophonist Roxy Coss already has made her mark as a bandleader, while becoming a torchbearer…
