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65th Monterey Jazz Festival Set for Sept. 23–25
The 65th Monterey Jazz Festival is scheduled for Sept. 23–25. Tickets are available but are going fast. At present,…
Gregory Porter is set to take the stage at this year’s Monterey Jazz Festival.
Sep 20, 2022 2:44 PM
The 65th Monterey Jazz Festival is scheduled for Sept. 23–25. Tickets are available but are going fast. At present,…
Dianne Reeves and Orrin Evans onstage at D.C. Jazz Fest.
Sep 20, 2022 3:30 PM
Fostering bridges is Orrin Evans’ modus operandi as he fulfills his duties as artist-in-residence at the D.C. Jazz…
Samara Joy and Pasquale Grasso will close out the Sept. 24 program with a late-night performance in Rockefeller Chapel.
Sep 20, 2022 3:32 PM
The Hyde Park Jazz Festival has announced that it will return to presenting in partnership with its long-time…
Shabaka Hutchings performs a July 3 set with Sons of Kemet and Nubya Garcia at England’s Love Supreme festival.
Sep 13, 2022 3:33 PM
Following two years of cancellations, Britain’s only outdoor jazz festival triumphantly returned July 1–3 for a…
Orrin Evans is scheduled to perform with his trio at the Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival in mid-September.
Sep 7, 2022 12:59 PM
The 12th annual Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival (PIJF) presented by Citizens Bank will feature more than 100…
Vocalist Stacey Kent performs at the Ystad Jazz Festival.
Sep 7, 2022 12:56 PM
Internationally, the jazz festival scene has been simultaneously enjoying and struggling through the processes of…
Drummer Gard Nilssen, this year’s artist-in-residence, performs at Jazzfestival Saalfelden with his trio Acoustic Unity.
Sep 7, 2022 12:47 PM
The organizers of the 42nd edition of Jazzfestival Saalfelden hoped to return to the event’s previous glories after…
Vocalist Sheila Jordan is scheduled to perform during the JJA Awards Online Bash on Sept. 11.
Sep 7, 2022 2:53 PM
The Jazz Journalists Association will hold its JJA Awards Online Bash on Sunday, Sept. 11, from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.…
Ulysses Owens Jr. will lead his big band in a performance with special guest Marquis Hill at the Detroit Jazz Festival on Sept. 3.
Aug 30, 2022 3:02 PM
Jazz fans in three major U.S. metropolitan areas — Chicago, Detroit and Washington, D.C. — might want to hop a…
Giant Step Arts founders Jimmy and Dena Katz
Aug 23, 2022 1:20 PM
While Manhattan was in the throes of the COVID-19 shutdown during 2020, renowned photographer, recording engineer,…
The all-star collective Dinner Party celebrates backstage at Blue Note Jazz Fest Napa. From left: Terrace Martin, Snoop Dogg, Talib Kweli, Dave Chappell, Robert Glasper, Kamasi Washington, Chris Dave and Derrick Hodge.
Aug 16, 2022 2:34 PM
The drive up to the Blue Note Jazz Fest Napa on the last weekend of July, through winding roads and sunbaked hills, was…
An all-star jam during the Blue Note at Sea Cruise.
Aug 16, 2022 2:26 PM
The pandemic not only shut down clubs, concert halls and festivals, but tours ground to a halt and the urge to travel…
The trio Acoustic Unity is among the groups slated to perform at Jazz Festival Saalfelden in Austria.
Aug 16, 2022 1:54 PM
Jazz Festival Saalfelden, the revered Austrian event that occurs each summer in the titular locale nestled within the…
The Aug. 1, 1942, issue of DownBeat announces the recording ban.
Aug 16, 2022 1:46 PM
The writing had been on the wall for weeks, maybe years. Then, 80 years ago this August, Jimmy Petrillo lowered the…
Performing at the newly reopened Smoke Jazz Club in New York, from left: Julius Rodriguez, Gerald Cannon, Eddie Henderson, Melissa Aldana and Joe Farnsworth
Aug 9, 2022 2:57 PM
Thursdays have always set the vibe for weekends at Smoke. The first of a four-night run for headliners, Thursday would…
Jon Batiste, the critics’ choice for Jazz Artist and Beyond Artist of the Year as well as Beyond Album of the Year.
Jul 26, 2022 3:03 PM
The 70th Annual DownBeat International Critics Poll has made history with pianist Jon Batiste being the first artist to…
Jul 19, 2022 2:16 PM
On Nov. 7, 1966, a 31-year-old Swiss fan of cutting-edge jazz made the short trip from his home in Basel across the…
Black Lives—From Generation To Generation makes a multi-generational plea for equity and equality with artists like Alicia Hall Moran, left, and E.J. Strickland.
Jun 29, 2022 10:32 AM
In September 2020, in the wake of protests that rocked cities across the United States, DownBeat published a cover…
The guitar quartet Dither commanded attention with their tight-yet-flexible teamwork at this year’s FIMAV.
Jun 29, 2022 10:34 AM
Festival International Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (FIMAV) in Quebec boldly explores and extolls music of the…
New York saxophonist Nicole Glover (right) and Montreal pianist Taurey Butler on stage during the inaugural Saint-Henri Jazz Week.
Jun 21, 2022 2:43 PM
Spring sprouted a brand new jazz initiative in Montreal this year: the Saint-Henri Jazz Week, presented in the borough…
Dee Dee Bridgewater (right) with the five finalists for the American Pianists Association’s next Cole Porter Fellowship.
Jun 15, 2022 2:41 PM
Every four years, the American Pianists Association recognizes five aspiring American pianists as finalists to compete…
The Irving S. Gilmore Piano Festival commissioned a piece by Tyshawn Sorey that premiered in Kalamazoo, Michigan, this spring.
Jun 27, 2022 9:26 AM
The in-person interfacing of jazz and classical music was back on display for the first time in four years. With…
Jun 14, 2022 2:21 PM
Savage Content has announced a new web series where guests compete head-to-head in a test of their jazz knowledge. The…
Saxophonist Kamasi Washington is slated to play this year’s Montreal Jazz Festival.
Jun 7, 2022 4:19 PM
“The revenge against the pandemic” is how Maurin Auxéméry, director of booking, programming cultural events for…
Vocalist Sheila Jordan was honored for Lifetime Achievement in the Jazz Journalists Association’s 27th annual JJA Jazz Awards.
Jun 7, 2022 4:26 PM
Singer Sheila Jordan, who at age 93 calls herself a “jazz child,” was hailed for her Lifetime Achievement in Jazz…
Bounce pioneers Mannie Fresh and Big Freedia and other guests join Galactic on “Act Like You Know.”
May 31, 2022 2:19 PM
Anyone who has spent time in New Orleans knows why it is also known as The City That Care Forgot. Between the music and…
Wynton Marsalis will receive the SFJAZZ Lifetime Achievement Award on June 3.
May 31, 2022 2:24 PM
SFJAZZ is presenting free live broadcasts of its 2022 gala honoring Wynton Marsalis with a Lifetime Achievement Award…
Jamie Cullum’s new holiday album, The Pianoman At Christmas, features 10 original compositions.
Dec 27, 2020 12:57 PM
As the year 2020 draws to a close, music fans have a bevy of new releases from which to choose to help them celebrate…
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