Mar 20, 2022 10:26 PM
Henry Cole: Avoiding Predictable Grooves
When drummer Henry Cole recruited rapper Negro González to appear on “De Frente,” an outcry of an offering on…
Henry Cole has released the sprawling new album Buscando La Vida.
Mar 20, 2022 10:26 PM
When drummer Henry Cole recruited rapper Negro González to appear on “De Frente,” an outcry of an offering on…
jazzahead! has become Europe’s leading jazz convention.
Mar 20, 2022 10:23 PM
With a host of new ideas, and a significantly larger hall with more exhibition space, jazzahead! is heading towards its…
Tia Fuller (left), Sharel Cassity and Lakecia Benjamin took the stage and delivered at the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival.
Mar 20, 2022 10:19 PM
Bristling cutting contests are as cherished in jazz as bracing collaborations. When the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival…
Vadim Neselovskyi performs in Lviv, Ukraine, in 2017.
Mar 15, 2022 12:07 PM
In June 2017, Vadim Neselovskyi played a concert at the Soviet-era Palace of Culture Mettalurgov in Mariupol, Ukraine,…
Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra recorded four albums of music in four days.
Mar 15, 2022 12:01 PM
As a ubiquitous figure on the New York scene for more than three decades, trumpeter Steven Bernstein has written…
A Time For Healing band members, from left, Isiah Collier, Justin Dillard, Corey Wilkes and Kahil El’Zabar.
Mar 15, 2022 11:54 AM
The laid-back, metronomic bounce and slap of percussionist Kahil El’Zabar’s earth drum (in tandem with contrapuntal…
“It’s been my goal to write and record new types of opportunities for improvisation,” Jamie Baum says.
Mar 15, 2022 11:48 AM
The Jamie Baum Septet breezed into Dizzy’s Club in New York this February premiering a variety of pandemic-inspired…
Ron Miles: 1963–2022
Mar 10, 2022 12:06 PM
Ron Miles, the Denver-based cornetist, composer, educator, bandleader and simpatico sideman who shared stages and…
“I wanted to give the strings fun things to play,” Fred Hersch said.
Mar 8, 2022 1:08 PM
Over the past year, the breadth and fire of jazz artists dipping a toe into the classical world has been staggering —…
Cameron Kimbrough and Damien “Yella P” Pearson are Memphissippi Sounds.
Mar 8, 2022 12:58 PM
The debut release by Cameron Kimbrough and Damion “Yella P” Pearson, Memphissippi Sounds (Little Village),…
