Feb 6, 2017 4:32 PM
Remembering Alphonse Mouzon
Drummer-producer-entrepreneur Alphonse Mouzon, who died on Dec. 25 after a long illness, will be remembered as a…
Alphonse Mouzon (1948–2016)
Feb 6, 2017 4:32 PM
Drummer-producer-entrepreneur Alphonse Mouzon, who died on Dec. 25 after a long illness, will be remembered as a…
Kenny Barron (left), Reggie Workman, Al Foster and Jimmy Heath participate in a memorial ceremony for bassist Bob Cranshaw at St. Peter’s Church in New York City on Jan. 30.
Feb 3, 2017 2:40 PM
New York’s St. Peter’s Church was packed to the rafters on Jan. 26. Dozens of spectators crowded into the venue’s…
Billy Hart (second from left), performs at Upstairs in Montreal with bassist Rémi LeBlanc, trombonist Jean-Nicolas Trottier and pianist Jean-Michel Pilc.
Feb 3, 2017 1:59 PM
There was magic at Montreal’s Upstairs Bar & Grill throughout the last weekend of January, when veteran drummer and…
When Maria Schneider (pictured) testified before Congress about the current U.S. copyright law’s (DMCA) notice and takedown provisions, she urged legislators to make major changes.
Feb 3, 2017 12:50 PM
When Maria Schneider testified before Congress about the current U.S. copyright law’s (DMCA) notice and takedown…
“If everybody gets used to getting their music for free, nobody is going to pay for music anymore,” says bandleader Maria Schneider.
Feb 3, 2017 12:35 PM
Maria Schneider’s latest work, written for her 18-person jazz orchestra, is titled “Data Lords.” It is, by her…
Gary Lucas (center, on stage) performs a live soundtrack to a screening of Too Much Johnson, a silent film by Orson Welles that was thought to have been abandoned by the director in 1938 and rediscovered in 2013.
Feb 2, 2017 12:04 PM
Jan. 27 was a busy day for Gary Lucas. In the morning, he was at the United Nations Headquarters on Manhattan’s East…
Jon Faddis (left) performs with the University of Miami concert big band under the direction of John Daversa at Festival Miami on
Feb 2, 2017 11:31 AM
In the tropical garden otherwise known as the University of Miami, a handful of jazz stars from the Dizzy Gillespie…
Trombone Shorty has signed with Blue Note Records. He will release his debut album for the label in April.
Feb 1, 2017 12:11 PM
Trombone Shorty has signed with Blue Note Records and will make his debut for the label this April ahead of his…
Eddie Gomez (left), Eliot Zigmud and Bill Evans form the trio featured on On A Monday Evening (Fantasy Records), a new album of unreleased material recorded at the University of Wisconsin in 1976.
Jan 31, 2017 2:36 PM
In the mid-1970s, jazz pianist Bill Evans was at the pinnacle of his career, releasing a string of seminal albums on…
Carlos Henriquez (pictured) helmed an octet celebrating the Latin side of Dizzy Gillespie at Jazz at Lincoln Center from Jan. 26–28.
Jan 31, 2017 10:56 AM
Aside from his role as one of the primary architects of bebop, John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie was one of jazz’s…
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