Mar 22, 2016 1:34 PM
Truesdell’s Gil Evans Project Soars at Elmhurst College Jazz Fest
For a small city, Elmhurst, Illinois, can accommodate some big jazz talent. That was certainly the case on Feb. 26,…
Ryan Truesdell (right) conducts the Gil Evans Project featuring Donny McCaslin (left) during the Elmhurst College Jazz Festival in Elmhurst, Illinois, on Feb. 26.
Mar 22, 2016 1:34 PM
For a small city, Elmhurst, Illinois, can accommodate some big jazz talent. That was certainly the case on Feb. 26,…
Kamasi Washington performs material from his three-CD opus The Epic at Webster Hall in New York on Feb. 24.
Mar 22, 2016 1:16 PM
The Los Angeles-based tenor saxophonist Kamasi Washington, arguably the hottest musician in jazz as measured by the…
Actor/director Don Cheadle (left), soundtrack composer Robert Glasper and trumpeter Keyon Harrold discuss Miles Ahead at SXSW. (Photo: Earl Gibson III)
Mar 21, 2016 10:46 AM
“Fear no mistake” is easier said than done, particularly when trying to tell the story of one of the most legendary…
The Pat Metheny Unity Group will release The Unity Sessions, one of two new albums from the guitarist on Nonesuch Records, on May 6 (Photo: Courtesy of the artist)
Mar 18, 2016 8:39 AM
Coming off a banner year that included a stint as artist-in-residence for the Detroit Jazz Festival, guitarist Pat…
Sonny Rollins will release Holding The Stage: Road Shows, Vol. 4 (Doxy/OKeh) digitally on April 8 and on CD April 15 (Photo: Courtesy of the Artist)
Mar 16, 2016 11:56 AM
Fans of Sonny Rollins, make room on your shelves. The prodigious saxophonist and living jazz legend is adding another…
Rudresh Mahanthappa (left) with Stefon Harris at the Symphony Center in Chicago on Feb. 26 (Photo: Michael Jackson)
Mar 16, 2016 9:34 AM
Chicago Symphony Center’s Jazz Series presented an ambitious double billing Feb. 26 with alto saxophonist Rudresh…
Naná Vasconcelos (1944–2016)
Mar 11, 2016 2:24 PM
Naná Vasconcelos, the acclaimed percussionist and master of the single-string berimbau, died March 9 from lung cancer…
Ella Fitzgerald is one of the classic jazz artists whose albums will be reissued by Verve in 2016.
Mar 7, 2016 5:24 PM
Verve Records will celebrate its 60th anniversary throughout 2016 with a series of historic reissues and new…
Little Anthony (and his band, The Imperials) was inducted into the Rock and roll Hall of Fame in 2009. He collaborated with Arlene Krieger on a new memoir.
Mar 7, 2016 5:20 PM
Fifty-seven years ago, Little Anthony and his group were in a New York studio, trying to cut their first single.…
Thomas Chapin is the subject of the new documentary Night Bird Song, which chronicles the pioneering reedist’s ascendant career and untimely death.
Mar 7, 2016 5:13 PM
Like Jaco Pastorius, alto saxophonist-flutist Thomas Chapin was a meteor streaking across the night sky. Both were…
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