Aug 17, 2021 3:03 PM
Youth Orchestra’s Life-Changing Experience
By her very presence, baritone saxophonist Noa Zebley ― a 17-year-old woman of unassuming personality and modest…
Melissa Aldana and Sean Jones work with the NYO Jazz youth orchestra on recording the group’s first full-length album.
Aug 17, 2021 3:03 PM
By her very presence, baritone saxophonist Noa Zebley ― a 17-year-old woman of unassuming personality and modest…
The Wayne Escoffery/Jeremy Pelt Quartet kicked off the spring outdoor series on April 4.
Apr 7, 2021 10:42 AM
Giant Step Arts and Keyed Up! have launched a spring performance series called “Walk With The Wind” honoring…
Regina Carter is set to explore the legacy of Ella Fitzgerald on Tuesday.
Jan 15, 2021 10:25 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Brian Charette plans to stream a set marking the release of a new album on Saturday.
Dec 4, 2020 10:01 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Violinist Tomoko Omura and her husband, pianist Glenn Zaleski, are set to stream a performance on Sunday.
Nov 23, 2020 12:10 PM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Vocalist Sheila Jordan is set to mark her 92nd birthday with a livestreamed performance on Wednesday, Nov. 18.
Nov 19, 2020 10:57 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Vocalist Becca Stevens is set to stream a performance on Thursday.
Oct 30, 2020 11:31 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Melissa Aldana (left), Pablo Menares and Kush Abadey perform Oct. 3 in Central Park as a part of the Walk With The Wind performance series.
Oct 19, 2020 10:48 AM
Still in the throes of the pandemic, the world’s been starved for jazz in 3D, something to distract us from the…
The Le Boeuf Brothers are set to stream a Tuesday performance.
Oct 6, 2020 4:45 PM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
The members of Artemis are drummer Allison Miller (left), pianist and musical director Renee Rosnes, bassist Noriko Ueda, trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, clarinetist Anat Cohen and tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana.
Sep 30, 2020 9:00 AM
Last fall, Blue Note Records made history by signing pianist Renee Rosnes’ adventurous septet, Artemis, to its…
Art Hirahara’s latest album, Balance Point, includes original compositions and one Duke Ellington tune.
Sep 8, 2020 4:19 PM
Visiting his native San Francisco in mid-March to play some dates and see his mother, Art Hirahara suddenly found…
Bassist Ben Williams is set to stream a Thursday trio set from the Jazz Gallery in New York.
Aug 3, 2020 5:55 PM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Reedist Tim Berne said he’s rethinking the way he books tours and runs a band in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic upending air travel.
Jun 22, 2020 9:10 AM
The travel industry’s indelible connection to the jazz ecosystem, like so many other economic niches, has been thrown…
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…
Mark de Clive-Lowe was raised in New Zealand playing piano, moved to the UK during the 1990s and pursued electronic music before moving to Los Angeles and working around the edges of jazz.
May 19, 2020 4:47 PM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Lakecia Benjamin performs during Winter Jazzfest, which ran Jan. 8-18 in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Jan 22, 2020 1:32 PM
Peer groups serve as vital incubators for artistic development, but equally critical are intergenerational…
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…
Chick Corea’s Trilogy, which also includes bassist Christian McBride and drummer Brian Blade, are set to play the 2019/20 Symphony Center Presents Jazz series in Chicago on Nov. 1.
Oct 7, 2019 9:40 AM
The 2019/2020 Symphony Center Presents Jazz series in Chicago is set to return Nov. 1.
During the past two-plus…
Saxophonist Melissa Aldana and her quartet pay tribute to artist Frida Kahlo on Visions. The ensemble is set to play the Jazz at the Logan series on April 5.
Jan 24, 2020 10:49 AM
Now in its seventh year, the Jazz at the Logan series offers programing that works to encompass a range of the jazz…
Miguel Zenón and Melissa Aldana perform Sunday at the Chicago Jazz Festival with Latino-America Unida, a new collective that also included drummer Antonio Sánchez, bassist Ricky Rodriguez and pianist David Virelles.
Sep 4, 2019 3:25 PM
Epic and epochal performances defined the 41st annual Chicago Jazz Festival, which ran Aug. 29-Sept. 1 at Millennium…
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…
“I’m looking for musicians who will kick my ass and make me grow,” Melissa Aldana recently said with a laugh.
Jun 12, 2019 9:33 AM
In the fall of 2013, T.S. Monk was hollering into a hot microphone on the Kennedy Center Stage: “ They gave you their…
Joel Ross
May 29, 2019 2:26 PM
Some music videos can be described accurately as publicity clips, whereas others dig a little deeper and feel more like…
As part of the Chicago Jazz Festival, Grammy-winning singer Cécile McLorin Salvant will perform at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park on Aug. 31 at 7:45 p.m.
Apr 25, 2019 9:58 PM
A parade of stars will perform at this year’s Chicago Jazz Festival (scheduled for Aug. 23–Sept. 1), including…
Melissa Aldana says that Visions connects her work “to the legacy of Latina artists who have come before me.”
Mar 29, 2019 12:23 PM
Drawn from a 2018 Jazz Gallery commission inspired by the life of artist Frida Kahlo, saxophonist and bandleader…
Drummer/vocalist Jamison Ross (left), vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana, pianist and musical director Christian Sands, trumpeter/vocalist Bria Skonberg and bassist Yasushi Nakamura are performing on the Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour.
Mar 22, 2019 3:32 PM
The Monterey Jazz Festival’s organized a national tour, which runs through April 14, to mark its 62nd anniversary.
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Pianist Alfredo Rodríguez and percussionist Pedrito Martinez perform at New York’s SubCulture during Winter Jazzfest.
Nov 3, 2019 4:38 PM
For the past 15 years, Winter Jazzfest’s signature event has been a weekend marathon spread across dozens of New York…
Melissa Aldana performs with Artemis on Sunday, Aug. 4 on the Fort Stage at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island.
Jan 10, 2019 12:08 PM
An intense and unrelenting rainstorm pummeled Rhode Island all day Saturday, taking some of the luster off the 2018…
Jure Pukl (left), Melissa Aldana, Joe Sanders and Greg Hutchinson perform on Doubtless.
Aug 3, 2018 10:27 AM
Less than a decade old, London-based Whirlwind Recordings gives modern jazz a fresh, new face. The label’s inspired…
Glenn Zaleski (left), Melissa Aldana, Philip Dizack, Pablo Menares and Craig Weinrib perform at the San Francisco Jazz Festival on June 13.
Jun 20, 2017 4:20 PM
Before the SFJAZZ Center opened in January 2013, SFJAZZ’s flagship programming was its San Francisco Jazz Festival…
Christian Scott is among the headliners for the 11th annual Port-au-Prince Jazz Festival, which takes place in Haiti March 4–11.
Feb 21, 2017 9:14 AM
Now in its 11th year, the Port au Prince International Jazz Festival (PAPJazz Fest) forges ahead as planned, in spite…
Melissa Aldana poses outside the Jazz Showcase in Chicago during her residency at the club May 5–May 8.
Mar 19, 2019 1:22 PM
“Grandfathered” is a term for pre-existing conditions that are handed down through generations. In Chilean…
