‘Somewhere, Somebody Has the Blues’
By J.D. Considine
For this special cover story, DownBeat digs into the meaning and importance of the blues. We check in with blues stars Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Shemekia Copeland, Ruthie Foster, Billy Branch and other musicians to spotlight this enduring art form.
By Ed Enright
Palermo’s namesake big band has earned a reputation as a virtual circus of jazz-rock medleys, mashups, jump-cuts and other spirited musical mischief.
By Dave Cantor
“It’s the sound community of William Parker,” said vocalist Lisa Sokolov, who first met the bassist in the mid-1970s and appears on Migration Of Silence Into And Out Of The Tone World, a 10-album set.
Rez Abbasi was tested on the following tracks for the “Blindfold Test”:
