Jun 1, 2021 3:18 PM
Shabaka Hutchings: Authentic Expression
Shabaka Hutchings’ music makes fans dance and think. The dual ability to get hips swaying and synapses firing has…
Shabaka Hutchings
Jun 1, 2021 3:18 PM
Shabaka Hutchings’ music makes fans dance and think. The dual ability to get hips swaying and synapses firing has…
Veronica Swift has both a historical connection to the music and a desire to expand its artistic purview.
Dec 3, 2020 8:58 AM
Welcome to our enthusiastic, optimistic look at the future.
Below, DownBeat presents short profiles of two dozen…
Shabaka Hutchings is among the 25 artists DownBeat thinks will help shape jazz in the decades to come.
Oct 30, 2020 8:50 AM
Shabaka Hutchings’ M.O. is to spend much of each year on the road, circling the globe at the helm of three…
Shabaka and The Ancestors, winner of the category Rising Star–Jazz Group, includes Ariel Zamonsky (left), Siyabonga Mthembu, Shabaka Hutchings, Tumi Mogorosi, Gontse Makhene and Mthunzi Mvubu.
Sep 11, 2020 9:13 AM
In 2019, five artists received pages of music with an express direction: “Learn these parts.” Comprising bass lines…
Terri Lyne Carrington, who topped three categories in the 2020 DownBeat Critics Poll, is the first female instrumentalist to win the Jazz Artist of the Year category.
Jul 6, 2020 5:39 PM
Trailblazing drummer and bandleader Terri Lyne Carrington has made history numerous times in her career, and the…
Makaya McCraven performs at the Jazztopad Festival in Wroclaw, Poland, on Nov. 17.
Dec 1, 2019 5:38 PM
With so many annual jazz festivals filling the music calendar across Europe, it takes savvy programming to make such…
Reed player Shabaka Hutchings performs with Sons of Kemet.
Jul 31, 2019 9:27 AM
When Sons of Kemet formed in 2011—a product of the burgeoning London jazz renaissance—the vibrant quartet drew…
Cécile McLorin Salvant performs at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on May 3.
Jul 2, 2019 9:46 AM
Singer-songwriter Cécile McLorin Salvant is among the artists who topped multiple categories in the 2019 DownBeat…
Since the 1980s, London-based DJ and record label founder Gilles Peterson has been a force in music. The first installment of his We Our Here festival is set to run Aug. 15–18 in Abbots Ripton, Cambridgeshire, U.K.
Jun 11, 2019 4:31 PM
Being a curator has become a defining ethos for the 21st century. With digital platforms bombarding us with choice, a…
Theon Cross’ instrument enables the bandleader to consider his attack from a unique vantage point, the tuba’s relative obsolescence in contemporary music alleviating him from the burden of comparison.
Mar 25, 2019 9:51 AM
Even before releasing a full-length recording under his own name, Theon Cross had become a central figure of the…
On June 29, the Impulse! label issued previously unreleased studio recordings by John Coltrane (left), Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison and McCoy Tyner under the title Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album.
Jan 4, 2019 12:27 PM
During 2018, DownBeat published hundreds of articles and album reviews. What’s below, though, are some features and…
Daniel Rolim and and Marta Freitas perform at Brazilian Jazz Night during the 40th annual Copenhagen Jazz Festival.
Jul 18, 2018 11:36 AM
Drowsily easing up to passport control upon arrival in Copenhagen after a sleepless, otherwise pleasant 8-hour journey…
Each of Shabaka Hutchings’ ensembles showcases a different musical sensibility of the bandleader.
Jul 3, 2018 9:30 AM
As the buzz around him continues to build, more and more fans in the United States are learning the name Shabaka…
We Our Here album cover
May 31, 2018 11:57 AM
Part of what’s remarkable about the contemporary London jazz scene is how the genre’s breadth is on display,…
Drummer Moses Boyd, who gigs as Binker & Moses along with tenor saxophonist Binker Golding, recently played the Brussels Jazz Festival.
Aug 16, 2018 4:07 PM
There were three dominant artist groupings during the Brussels Jazz Festival. Naturally, there was a considerable…
Drummer Moses Boyd (left), saxophonist Nubya Garcia and tuba player Theon Cross contributed to the forthcoming album We Out Here, on Brownswood Recordings.
Aug 16, 2018 4:07 PM
Soon after Jazz Re:Freshed’s fifth annual Jazz Re:Fest concluded in August at London’s Royal Festival Hall…
Kaja Draksler performs as part of the trio Punk.Vrt.Plastik at the 2017 Berlin Jazz Festival on Nov. 4.
Nov 13, 2017 8:23 PM
Once again, the compass needle for important jazz happenings pointed to Berlin recently, with the daring and impressive…
Shabaka Hutchings (seen here in a publicity photo) is among the artists to have performed at Jazz Re:Freshed’s weekly Thursday showcases in London.
Aug 18, 2017 9:21 AM
For a glimpse of the current wave of young jazz talent bubbling in the U.K., particularly in its multifaceted black…
Joe Lovano (left), Peter Slavov, Beragmo Jazz Artistic Director Dave Douglas and Lamy Estrefi perform at the Bergamo Jazz Festival on March 18
Oct 14, 2019 5:30 PM
A spirit of continuity prevailed in the development of the 2016 Bergamo Jazz Festival (March 13–20), after artistic…
