The Theater of Cécile McLorin Salvant
By Phillip Lutz
Praised to the skies, Cécile McLorin Salvant has tried to keep her feet on the ground.
By DownBeat
The complete poll results include innumerable categories for established artists and Rising Stars. Additionally, there’s a roundup of the past year’s Top 10 Jazz Albums and Top 10 Historical Albums.
By J.D. Considine
In true Shorter style, the way he talks about the music on Emanon is to talk about other things, because for the saxophonist, the act of composing and improvising is by its very nature random and associative.
By Geoffrey Himes
As a child, she was a classical piano prodigy, but when her application to a Philadelphia conservatory, the Curtis Institute, was rejected—because of her race, she always believed—she rebounded by taking a job as a singer in an Atlantic City barroom.
By James Hall
Just 25 years old on July 6, 1961—the date his car veered off a highway in western New York State, killing him and a passenger in a fiery crash—bassist LaFaro already had established himself as a revolutionary instrumentalist.
Javon Jackson was tested on the following tracks for the “Blindfold Test”:
