May 9, 2022 2:09 PM
Bill O’Connell’s Hope for Change
Best known as an inspired hybridizer of modernist jazz and Afrodiasporic idioms as an improviser and composer, Bill…
May 9, 2022 2:09 PM
Best known as an inspired hybridizer of modernist jazz and Afrodiasporic idioms as an improviser and composer, Bill…
May 3, 2022 12:38 PM
On May 10, the iconic bassist-composer Ron Carter will be fêted in an 85th birthday celebration at Carnegie Hall. With…
May 3, 2022 11:59 AM
If the goal of the Lyric Opera of Chicago was to attract a more diverse crowd by programming jazz composer/trumpeter…
May 3, 2022 11:50 AM
The fifth annual GroundUP Music Festival, set to take place May 6–8 at the North Beach Bandshell in Miami Beach,…
May 3, 2022 11:45 AM
Like virtually every other jazz festival in the world, the venerable, adventure-leaning FIMAV festival in…
May 3, 2022 11:39 AM
The Jazz Journalists Association has announced its 2022 class of Jazz Heroes — 28 activists and advocates from 26…
Apr 28, 2022 5:42 PM
This year’s summer jazz festival season is cause for special, and excessive, celebration. The entire jazz ecosystem…
Apr 28, 2022 5:00 PM
It’s been awhile since many jazz events were allowed to go live, unhindered by the threat of pandemic-induced…
Apr 28, 2022 4:58 PM
With 2020 mostly a lost year and 2021 largely transitional, jazz festivals held west of the mighty Mississippi River…
Apr 28, 2022 4:56 PM
In the summer of 2022, our jazz festivals will be free to run without nearly as many of the social distancing…