Feb 28, 2017 10:02 AM
Preview DownBeat’s Mardi Gras Playlist
Mardi Gras commemorates many things, but it’s a music lovers’ holiday through and through. As festivities get underway…
Feb 28, 2017 10:02 AM
Mardi Gras commemorates many things, but it’s a music lovers’ holiday through and through. As festivities get underway…
Feb 27, 2017 2:45 PM
A new trove of previously unreleased Louis Armstrong recordings will see the light of day thanks to a licensing…
Feb 24, 2017 3:36 PM
One of the more delightful aspects of the vintage jazz revival in New York (and elsewhere) in recent years is the…
Feb 24, 2017 9:46 AM
Three years ago, Grammy Award-nominated saxophonist, composer and arranger Jimmy Greene recorded Beautiful Life, a…
Feb 23, 2017 1:01 PM
Los Angeles is very lucky to count pianist Herbie Hancock and saxophonist Wayne Shorter as residents. Both are American…
Feb 22, 2017 3:48 PM
Born in London and raised in Delhi, India, and Encinitas, California, sitarist/composer Anoushka Shankar is the…
Feb 22, 2017 1:17 PM
One of the many pleasures of a jazz festival is the parade of rhythm sections, and the first four days of this year’s…
Feb 21, 2017 4:20 PM
The indefatigable spirit of Gunther Schuller (1925–2015), preeminent composer, musician, teacher and founder of New…
Feb 21, 2017 1:47 PM
Guitarist Larry Coryell, who died Feb. 19 at age 73 in New York City, first convened his Eleventh House band in 1973,…
Feb 20, 2017 5:16 PM
Acclaimed jazz guitarist Larry Coryell died suddenly in New York City on Feb. 19. He was 73.
His wife, the…
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