May 17, 2022 11:47 AM
Bang On A Can’s Long Play Thriller
When the influential “new music” presenting organization Bang on A Can debuted in May 1987 with a 12-hour, 28-piece…
Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille and David Virelles wasted no notes.
May 17, 2022 11:47 AM
When the influential “new music” presenting organization Bang on A Can debuted in May 1987 with a 12-hour, 28-piece…
Denardo Coleman/Ornette Expressions conducted by Awadagin Pratt.
May 17, 2022 11:41 AM
One purpose for the “Ornette Coleman: The Shape of Jazz to Come” event at BAM on the evening of May 1 as part of…
“I have no concept of what I did before! That’s irrelevant,” Ibrahim said. “I can’t change anything. I can’t change the past, I can’t change the future, I can only deal with what is now.”
May 9, 2022 2:52 PM
It is 2022. The pandemic lingers, yet life is moving forward in unexpected ways.
The necessary move to video…
The big band cause was in-house at jazzahead! this year, including impressive work by the Dutch leader/composer/pianist Kathrine Windfeld.
May 9, 2022 2:44 PM
When it comes to major, all-purpose jazz conference/festivals across the Atlantic, all roads have led to Bremen for the…
“I want to be able to get things out quicker, where what I’m releasing is closer to what I’m actually working on,” Grdina said.
May 9, 2022 2:32 PM
Vancouver-born guitarist Gordon Grdina remembers the moment, at age 13, that he first heard the sound of the Middle…
“To me, rhythm is not the notes; it’s the space between the notes,” the 25-year-old Flood explained.
May 9, 2022 2:27 PM
Miles Davis famously advised: “Don’t play what is there, play what is not there.” Alexander Flood incorporates…
O’Connell said, “Jazz combined the sophistication I was looking for in music with the earth and the swing. I was determined to pursue it and develop myself as a jazz pianist.”
May 9, 2022 2:09 PM
Best known as an inspired hybridizer of modernist jazz and Afrodiasporic idioms as an improviser and composer, Bill…
Bassist-composer Ron Carter turns 85 on May 4.
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…
Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up In My Bones is only the second work by a Black composer to be featured at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
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…
The collective Snarky Puppy will perform music from their upcoming album during this year’s GroundUP Music Festival.
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,…
