Apr 28, 2016 5:48 PM
Yellowjackets Showcase New Bassist, Fresh Material at Birdland
Three days before the release of its new album, Cohearence (Mack Avenue), the superstar quartet Yellowjackets unveiled…
Yellowjackets—Russell Ferrante (left), Will Kennedy, Dane Alderson and Bob Mintzer—played songs from a new album at Birdland in New York on April 19.
Apr 28, 2016 5:48 PM
Three days before the release of its new album, Cohearence (Mack Avenue), the superstar quartet Yellowjackets unveiled…
Randy Weston performs at the Jazz Foundation of America’s annual Jazz Loft Party at Hudson Studios in Manhattan on April 16.
Apr 28, 2016 5:43 PM
With its 25th annual Jazz Loft Party on April 16, the Jazz Foundation of America and its Executive Director, newly…
Harold Mabern performs at the Savannah Music Festival in Savannah, Georgia, on March 31.
Apr 27, 2016 12:21 PM
The concept of a piano trio is not new. In jazz, this entails the classic formation of piano, bass and drums, but in…
Roy Nathanson performs at Littlefield in Brooklyn on April 17 as part of the release party for his new album, The Nearness Of You.
Apr 27, 2016 12:18 PM
The ever-inventive saxophonist, composer and bandleader Roy Nathanson’s new album is a distillation of a week of gigs…
Cecil Taylor, the subject of a career retrospective at the Whitney Museum in New York, listens to a performance there on April 16.
Apr 27, 2016 12:15 PM
On the opening day of Open Plan: Cecil Taylor, muttering had begun from assembled fans that Taylor—who was being feted…
Benny Sharoni performs at Fitzgerald’s in Berwyn, Illinois, on April 9.
Apr 27, 2016 12:13 PM
Israeli tenor saxophonist Benny Sharoni wasn’t born in Alabama or the Bronx—he’s from Yemeni/Chilean parentage—but…
David Fiuczynski (seen here in a press photo) performed at Shapeshifter Lab in Brooklyn on April 14.
Apr 27, 2016 12:10 PM
Guitarist-composer-conceptualist David Fiuczynski has been operating on the fringe for decades, first with his…
Apr 25, 2016 10:32 AM
The Keith Hall Summer Drum Intensive, a camp designed for drummers at all skill levels, will present its 10th annual…
Lonnie Mack (1941–2016)
Apr 22, 2016 6:24 AM
Blues-rock guitarist and vocalist Lonnie Mack died on April 21 of natural causes at Centennial Medical Center near his…
Henry Threadgill
Apr 21, 2016 3:38 PM
Composer and reedist Henry Threadgill has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in music for his 2015 album In For A Penny,…
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