Feb 28, 2023 12:30 PM
John Beasley: Making a High-Production Recording on a No-Frills Budget
My recording career as a solo artist has been predominantly in the jazz genre, with 15 such albums to my name. Budgets…
“Even if we have no budget or a low budget, we persist,” John Beasley writes about producing jazz recordings. “If we are given the key to the kingdom, we blitz!”
Feb 28, 2023 12:30 PM
My recording career as a solo artist has been predominantly in the jazz genre, with 15 such albums to my name. Budgets…
Emerald City Nights: Live At The Penthouse was recorded at a club that helped put Ahmad Jamal on the map.
Feb 21, 2023 11:52 AM
Truth be told, the music on Emerald City Nights: Live At The Penthouse was just as much of a surprise to Ahmad Jamal as…
Author Aidan Levy was able to pack much detail into his account of Rollins’ rich life and its connection to jazz’s future and past.
Feb 21, 2023 11:45 AM
Clocking in at 700-plus pages, Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins (Hachette) is a well-written,…
Trombone Shorty’s summer tour will begin in June with four performances on the East Coast.
Feb 21, 2023 11:36 AM
Trombone Shorty has announced a major tour for this summer. The headlining run will begin in June with four…
Rempis started his Aerophonic Records label in 2013.
Feb 21, 2023 11:23 AM
Although he operates in a musical milieu that treasures spontaneity, agility and invention as much as anything else,…
“I think in small chunks and just get done today what needs to be done for tomorrow,” Cervini says.
Feb 21, 2023 11:17 AM
Time management carries multiple meanings for Ernesto Cervini. For one thing, the 40-year-old, Toronto-based drummer…
Burt Bacharach with Carol Bayer Sagar and Miles Davis in 1984.
Feb 14, 2023 11:26 AM
Burt Bacharach, who died in Los Angeles at age 94 on Feb. 8, was among the last of a small, oddly isolated island of…
“Getting into jazz changed everything for me,” Wamble said.
Feb 14, 2023 11:14 AM
Beyond is a good descriptor for Doug Wamble’s compelling October release, Blues In The Present Tense, on which the…
Avreeayl Ra (left) with Ed Wilkerson during a recent Elastic Arts’ Homeroom series show in Chicago.
Feb 14, 2023 10:54 AM
Avreeayl Ra Amen, to put it mildly, is a stalwart of the Chicago scene and the creative music stratosphere…
The inaugural class of the Next Jazz Legacy, from left: Kalia Vandever, Anastassiya Petrova, Ivanna Cuesta Gonzalez, Keyanna Hutchinson, Loke Risberg, Alexis Lombre and Lexi Hamner.
Feb 14, 2023 10:47 AM
As the Next Jazz Legacy — an initiative created to provide a wide-ranging year-long apprenticeship program to support…
