May 15, 2017 3:45 PM
June Brings New Albums by Jamal, Akinmusire, Lovano & Liebman
April showers bring May flowers. But what do May flowers bring? June album releases! There are plenty of reasons to…
Ambrose Akinmusire will release A Rift In Decorum: Live At The Village Vanguard (Blue Note) on June 9.
May 15, 2017 3:45 PM
April showers bring May flowers. But what do May flowers bring? June album releases! There are plenty of reasons to…
Vicente Archer (left), Clarence Penn, Mary Stallings and Steve Nelson perform at the SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco May 4 as part of the vocalist’s four-day residency.
May 12, 2017 12:31 PM
Since opening its SFJAZZ Center in January 2013, the SFJAZZ organization has appointed a group of Resident Artistic…
Chucho Valdés performs at Birdland in New York City as part of a six-night engagement at the venue.
May 12, 2017 9:38 AM
Most 75-year-olds residing in Miami, Florida, aspire to a comfortable retirement. Not so for master pianist-composer…
Kristin E. Ellis and Al’Jaleel McGhee perform in Paradise Blue, which premiered April 26 at the TimeLine Theatre in Chicago.
May 11, 2017 6:46 PM
I wonder if anyone will ever write a serious drama or movie about a jazz musician who is not beset by explosive inner…
John Scofield performed songs from 1976’s Blue Matter and 1996’s Quiet during a retrospective of his work at Jazz at Lincoln Center May 5–6.
May 10, 2017 10:10 PM
While still basking in the glow of his recent Best Jazz Instrumental Album Grammy win for Country For Old Men…
Dan Tepfer (left) and Aaron Diehl perform at the Greenwich House Music School in New York on April 27.
May 10, 2017 8:47 PM
Individually, pianists Aaron Diehl and Dan Tepfer are among the most sought after young musicians in jazz today, widely…
The Paulin Brothers perform at the People’s Health Economy Hall Tent during New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on May 4.
May 10, 2017 7:48 PM
(Text by David Kunian, with photos by Erika Goldring.)
The audience had already absorbed a lot of music by the time…
Lionel Loueke (left), Dave Holland, Chris Potter and Eric Harland are Aziza. The supergroup performed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 6.
May 10, 2017 2:40 PM
During this baseball season, it’s a treat to sit in the crowded wooden bleacher seats of Fenway Park in Boston under…
Adel Gonzáles (left), Orlando “Maraca” Valle, Yandy Martinez, Sixto Llorente and Héctor Quintana perform at the International Jazz Day Global Concert at the Gran Teatro de la Habana Alicia Alonso in Havana, Cuba, on April 30.
May 9, 2017 12:04 PM
After engaging with Marcus Miller’s popping electric bass ostinato, Ambrose Akinmusire’s piquant trumpet harmonies…
Diane Reeves (left), Dee Dee Bridgewater and Esperanza Spalding pay homage to Abbey Lincoln during a tribute performance held in honor of the late singer at Jazz at Lincoln Center on May 6.
May 9, 2017 10:42 AM
The Apollo Theater’s Abbey Lincoln Tribute, the centerpiece of its four day Women of the World (WOW) Festival, was a…
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