Mar 11, 2025 3:02 PM
Vibraphonist Roy Ayers Dies at 84
Vibraphonist and composer Roy Ayers, whose soul-driven, electrified approach influenced generations of R&B-adjacent…
Ayers began to play the vibraphone at age 5 after seeing a performance by Lionel Hampton, who gave him a pair of vibraphone mallets.
Mar 11, 2025 3:02 PM
Vibraphonist and composer Roy Ayers, whose soul-driven, electrified approach influenced generations of R&B-adjacent…
Jazz stars will shine on Miami’s bayfront.
Apr 19, 2021 9:47 AM
The inaugural Bayfront Jazz Festival will take place at Miami’s Bayfront Park with live jazz on April 30 and May 1.…
Johnaye Kendrick is set to stream a performance with her quartet on Friday.
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As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Adrian Younge (left) and Ali Shaheed Muhammad take on the concept of jazz’s obsolescence with a new label and compilation of the same name: Jazz Is Dead.
May 4, 2020 9:11 AM
DJ culture is proving to be an unheralded hero of jazz education.
Sometimes, it’s DJs and producers digging for…
