Dec 28, 2021 10:40 AM
Best Albums of 2021
Welcome to DownBeat’s best-reviewed albums of 2021. Below you’ll find the 5-star recordings, both new and…
Kenny Garrett’s Sounds From The Ancestors is among DownBeat’s latest crop of 5-star reviews.
Dec 28, 2021 10:40 AM
Welcome to DownBeat’s best-reviewed albums of 2021. Below you’ll find the 5-star recordings, both new and…
Orrin Evans
Dec 28, 2021 10:38 AM
Pianist and composer Orrin Evans has been named to a two-year term as Artist-In-Residence for the DC Jazz Festival.
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The festival will go virtual for most shows due to the rapid spread of the COVID-19 Omicron variant.
Dec 28, 2021 10:36 AM
COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc on live events in the jazz world. The latest victim is the 18th Annual NYC Jazzfest.…
William Parker is one of 20 artists slated to perform virtually at the Burning Ambulance Festival Jan. 1.
Dec 28, 2021 10:32 AM
Burning Ambulance, the independent arts and culture hub launched in 2010 by writer Phil Freeman and artist I.A.…
Kirk Whalum is in the holiday spirit.
Dec 21, 2021 10:40 AM
Looking for a little new music for the holiday season? DownBeat has plenty, starting with saxophonist Kirk Whalum’s…
Dec 21, 2021 12:24 AM
Tis the season. Treasurable Christmas jazz albums from the past are getting gift-wrapped again. The Vince Guaraldi…
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, First Flight to Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings
Dec 20, 2021 11:43 PM
Looking for last-minute gifts for your favorite jazz fan? Looking for a little something under the tree to place there…
An all-star cast from 2019’s New York City Winter JazzFest.
Dec 20, 2021 11:35 PM
If COVID cooperates, there will be a live New York City Winter JazzFest, and it will be spectacular.
Scheduled for…
Wayne Shorter and Don Was discuss uncovered Art Blakey music on First Flight To Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings.
Dec 14, 2021 10:51 AM
In a surprise interview, composer and saxophonist Wayne Shorter sat down with Don Was, president of Blue Note Records,…
Barry Harris was an extraordinary jazz pianist and a devoted keeper of the bebop flame.
Dec 14, 2021 10:49 AM
Pianist Barry Harris, an NEA Jazz Master who devoted his life to playing bebop and teaching the language of…
