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Robert Glasper to Helm Blue Note Jazz Festival’s Black Radio Experience
The Blue Note Jazz Festival’s Black Radio Experience, a celebration of the rich tapestry of Black culture, will take…
Robert Glasper will helm The Black Radio Experience celebration in Napa, California, on Labor Day weekend.
Mar 5, 2024 2:59 PM
The Blue Note Jazz Festival’s Black Radio Experience, a celebration of the rich tapestry of Black culture, will take…
Apr 26, 2022 2:15 PM
Blue Note Jazz Festival Napa Valley premieres this summer with a multi-day, multi-stage festival featuring…
Robert Glasper
Sep 28, 2021 2:52 PM
Keyboardist, composer and jazz party starter Robert Glasper begins a jam-packed, star-studded, 33-day residency at the…
The Monterey Jazz Festival, one of many reopening for late summer.
Jun 15, 2021 11:43 AM
In what has to be billed as the great jazz reopening, festivals are coming back online, many with late-breaking plans…
Robert Glasper will perform all three days in different musical settings.
Jun 8, 2021 1:01 PM
The Newport Jazz Festival has announced that tickets are now on sale for this year’s event July 30–Aug. 1 with a…
The Soul Rebels will perform with Big Freedia.
Apr 6, 2021 2:21 PM
The Blue Note Jazz Club is heading to Miami Beach this June for a series of outdoor concerts at the city’s North…
Chris Collins, president and artistic director of the Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation, attributes the ability to pull off the live event to the professionalism of Detroit’s tech crews, musicians and foundation staff.
Sep 10, 2020 8:59 AM
The Detroit Jazz Festival pulled off a first—a live jazz fest with no audience—during the Labor Day weekend.
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Dave McMurray (left), Esperanza Spalding, Ravi Coltrane and Terri Lyne Carrington pay tribute to the late Geri Allen at the 2018 Detroit Jazz Festival.
Jul 30, 2020 3:14 PM
The Detroit Jazz Festival, which previously announced its move online and focus on local talent, today presented the…
Dinner Party is the recorded collaboration of producer 9th Wonder, saxophonist Kamasi Washington, multi-instrumentalist Terrace Martin and keyboardist Robert Glasper.
Jul 21, 2020 2:50 PM
Friendships forged between young musicians can lead to magnificent collaborations. Sometimes those collaborations…
Singer José James is releasing No Beginning No End 2 on Rainbow Blonde Records, which he co-founded with singer-songwriter Talia Billig and sound engineer Brian Bender.
Feb 3, 2020 4:44 PM
“Turn Me Up,” a single off José James’ upcoming No Beginning No End 2, radiates like an anthem. Inside an…
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…
Robert Glasper (foreground) and Herbie Hancock in a scene from the documentary Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes.
Nov 13, 2019 4:32 PM
Swiss-born director Sophie Huber’s Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes (Eagle Vision), which coincides with the…
Terrace Martin (left) is one of the guests who will collaborate with keyboardist Robert Glasper during his residency at the Blue Note in New York.
Sep 18, 2019 4:20 PM
Robert Glasper soon will set up shop at the Blue Note for a month, playing 56 gigs at the New York jazz club Oct. 3 to…
Alfred Lion (left), Dexter Gordon and Francis Wolff
Aug 23, 2019 5:14 PM
As label president Don Was told DownBeat in a recent phone interview from his office in the Capitol Records Building in…
Derek Hodge recently was in Johannesburg, South Africa, as part of a residency program that found him working on a new recording by trumpeter Ndabo Zulu’s Umgidi Ensemble.
Oct 1, 2018 1:10 PM
Derrick Hodge is a cool, calm, collected cat.
He is intentional, deliberate in every sense—from the words he…
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…
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:…
Robert Glasper (left), Derrick Hodge and Kendrick Scott perform following a screening of the documentary Blue Note Records: Beyond The Notes at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 23.
Jun 6, 2019 12:33 PM
UPDATE: The theatrical run begins June 14 in New York at Metrograph. June 28, the film opens in Los Angles at Laemmle…
Grant Green (1935–’79) is one of the dozens of artists who are showcased on Record Store Day releases.
Aug 21, 2019 10:11 AM
It’s that time of the year again. Music retailers have stocked up, and vinyl collectors have plotted their shopping…
Tshepo Tshola sings at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival in Cape Town, South Africa, during a tribute to the late Hugh Masekela.
Apr 16, 2018 6:07 PM
On the eve of this year’s Cape Town International Jazz Festival, which ran March 23–24, some attendees experienced…
Singer Dee Dee Bridgewater was among the performers on Blue Note at Sea.
Feb 7, 2018 1:12 PM
For years, Entertainment Cruise Productions Executive Director Michael Lazaroff has been trying to strike the right…
Snarky Puppy’s 2018 itinerary includes a show at Carnegie Hall, a festival in Miami and an extensive U.S. tour.
Nov 20, 2017 9:16 AM
Snarky Puppy, which was voted Jazz Group of the Year in the 2017 DownBeat Readers Poll, will begin its 2018 U.S. tour…
Casey Benjamin (left) and Robert Glasper of the Robert Glasper Experiment perform at the Solid Sound Festival in North Adams, Massachusetts, on June 24.
Jul 6, 2017 8:49 AM
In its fifth year, Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival proved to be a dense blend of eclectic music, spacious contemporary…
Odean Pope (left) leads his sax choir on June 16 during the Captialbop DC Jazz Series in Washington, D.C.
Jun 29, 2017 8:22 AM
Every noteworthy jazz festival finds its groove. That groove is the delicate balance of titilating festivalgoers with…
Pat Metheny will appear at the Kennedy Center as part of the DC JazzFest on June 12.
Feb 28, 2017 3:41 PM
The DC Jazz Festival has announced the addition of Pat Metheny to its illustrious lineup of headliners.
The…
John Scofield won two Grammy awards on Feb. 12.
Feb 14, 2017 7:47 PM
Guitarist John Scofield, reedist/bandleader Ted Nash and multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Jacob Collier are among the…
Robert Glasper (left), Casey Benjamin, Derrick Hodge and Mark Colenburg are The Robert Glasper Experiment. Their new album, ArtScience, is due Sept. 16.
Sep 28, 2016 11:18 AM
Robert Glasper was in a playful mood Sept. 9 at Chicago’s Jazz Showcase. Performing with his trio—bassist Vicente…
Lionel Loueke (left), Marcus Strickland and Ambrose Akinmusire perform at the 2014 Monterey Jazz Festival in this still from a Blue Note Records publicity video. The band played in Montreal on July 1.
Jul 8, 2016 1:19 PM
I first caught the all-star outfit known as the Blue Note 75 group at the Montreal Jazz Festival two years ago, during…
Robert Glasper performs at the Blue Note in New York City on June 22 as part of the venue’s month-long jazz festival.
Jul 8, 2016 12:25 PM
The late show on the second night of Robert Glasper’s Blue Note residency on June 22 was virtually sold out—and…
Al Jarreau is among the headliners for the 2016 Blue Note Jazz Festival, which takes place June 1–30 (Photo: Marina Chavez)
Jul 11, 2016 1:09 PM
The 2016 Blue Note Jazz Festival will take place June 1–30, and will feature over 100 events in 10 venues throughout…
Apr 5, 2016 11:45 AM
Columbia/Legacy will commemorate the 90th birthday of Miles Davis with the release of Everything’s Beautiful, a…
Robert Glasper (pictured) will partner with journalist Ashley Kahn to teach a course on Miles Davis at New York University in September (Photo: Courtesy of the artist)
Nov 23, 2016 10:40 AM
Grammy Award-winning keyboardist Robert Glasper and journalist Ashley Kahn will teach a course on the music and legacy…
