Jun 22, 2021 11:45 AM
Rhiannon Giddens Yearns for Home on Duo Effort
Rhiannon Giddens is homesick. That’s the partial theme of her new album, They’re Calling Me Home (Nonesuch…
Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi
Jun 22, 2021 11:45 AM
Rhiannon Giddens is homesick. That’s the partial theme of her new album, They’re Calling Me Home (Nonesuch…
Marcus Roberts is among the artists who have recorded videos to promote Mighty Writers, a non-profit organization that teaches reading and writing to low-income and marginalized students.
Aug 14, 2020 2:38 PM
Jazz pianist Marcus Roberts is among the artists who have recorded videos for Mighty SONG Writers, a series that aims…
Saxophonist Nubya Garcia performs at the 2018 Melbourne Jazz Festival, one of many large-scale events pivoting online because of the pandemic.
Jun 11, 2020 9:06 AM
As Jazzfest Passau in Germany plans to continue outdoor events and Portugal’s Jazz em Agosto adapts to its…
Ted Nash revisits Bernstein and Sondheim for Somewhere Else: Songs From West Side Story.
Dec 27, 2019 9:07 AM
The list below is a round up of the 5-, 4.5- and 4-star reviews that ran in print editions of DownBeat during 2019. If…
Songs Of Our Native Daughters—a collaborative set from Rhiannon Giddens (left), Allison Russell, Leyla McCalla and Amythyst Kiah—pushes back against expectations of American folk music, setting the record straight with a powerful quartet of black women who play banjos, fiddles and acoustic guitars.
Mar 29, 2019 9:42 AM
When she sings certain songs, Rhiannon Giddens feels herself become an oracle. The medium her messengers speak through…
Gary Clark Jr. performs at the Chicago Blues Fest on June 11.
Jun 15, 2017 3:11 PM
The Chicago Blues Festival rarely booked blues-rock stars such as Gary Clark Jr. in its 33 previous incarnations in…
Jun 13, 2019 4:21 PM
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