Nov 26, 2024 2:00 PM
Record Store Day Delivers Black Friday Releases!
Looking for a great gift for your vinyl-loving loved one (or yourself)? Record Store Day’s Black Friday releases…
Nov 26, 2024 2:00 PM
Looking for a great gift for your vinyl-loving loved one (or yourself)? Record Store Day’s Black Friday releases…
Golden City mixes instrumental colors, rhythmic schemes and textural elements.
Nov 26, 2024 1:36 PM
Art and activism have historically met through the medium of jazz. But rarely have those meetings yielded works that…
“This guy had his own language,” Forman said of guitarist Grant Green. “Wes was the same way.”
Nov 26, 2024 1:09 PM
At this summer’s Healdsburg Jazz Festival, guitarist/racanteur extraordinaire Bruce Forman sat down for a live…
DKV Trio’s combination of high energy, quick change-ups and soul-shouting melody was a crowd favorite.
Nov 26, 2024 11:00 AM
Music Unlimited has been held annually since 1987 in Wels, Austria. The city elections of the past decade have placed…
“I treat every day like it’s Thanksgiving,” said Roy Haynes.
Nov 19, 2024 12:57 PM
Powerhouse jazz drummer and bandleader Roy Haynes died Tuesday in Nassau County, New York. He was 99. One of the few…
Jazz journalist Michael Jackson, left, dispenses a live Blindfold Test to drum master Billy Cobham.
Nov 19, 2024 12:26 PM
Drum king Billy Cobham, who, believe it or not, turned 80 in May, ruled the roost at January’s Panama Jazz Festival.…
Devin Daniels performing with trumpeter Julien Knowles.
Nov 19, 2024 12:00 PM
“I kind of wasn’t expecting me not liking gentrification,” Devin Daniels says, stroking his beard as he looks…
Long before he founded the DC Jazz Festival, Charlie Fishman ran a jazz club in Jerusalem called Django.
Nov 19, 2024 11:48 AM
Charlie Fishman, founder of the DC Jazz Festival in Washington, D.C., passed away on Nov. 12. He was 82.
Born in…
Lou Donaldson was one of the originators of the hard bop movement in jazz back in the 1950s.
Nov 12, 2024 12:12 PM
Alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson, the final surviving member of the original Art Blakey quintet that in 1954 introduced…
Pianist Marilyn Crispell tantalized in two very different settings at the festival.
Nov 12, 2024 12:08 PM
Martin Luther King Jr. gave the opening address for Berliner Jazztage 1964, which was the first edition of the annual…
