‘The Determination To Be Fearless’
By Phillip Lutz
The drummer and bandleader, who topped three categories in the Critics Poll, discusses Waiting Game, the acclaimed album she recorded with her band Social Science. In addition, Carrington reflects on her role as an educator and activist for social justice.
By Dan Ouellette
Heath outlived most of his contemporaries during a career that saw the spirited saxophonist serve as a big-band specialist, a prolific composer, an astute arranger and an avid teacher who championed young musicians.
By Ted Panken
McRae’s chemistry with a lyric was not dissimilar to sodium pentothal’s effects on subjects of interrogation: The truth, for better or worse, would emerge.
By John McDonough
Pianist Teddy Wilson, whose partnership with Billie Holiday in the 1930s bequeathed us one of the great collective canons of jazz history, once told me a surprising thing.
By Michael J. West
Hearing Akinmusire perform brings to mind Louis Armstrong’s description of first hearing Bix Beiderbecke: “Those pretty notes went right through me.”
By Suzanne Lorge
With touring on hold due to the pandemic, multi-instrumentalist and organ icon DeFrancesco has been staying put in his Arizona home.
By Stephanie Jones
Shabaka and The Ancestors, vibraphonist Sasha Berliner, guitarist Lage Lund and violinist Sarah Bernstein all topped Rising Star categories in this year’s poll.
Kirk Whalum was tested on the following tracks for the “Blindfold Test”:
