Oct 11, 2022 1:48 PM
Resilient Detroit Jazz Festival Remains Pre-Eminent
Few festivals proved as valiant as Detroit through the dark days of the pandemic. In both 2020 and 2021, the world’s…
Few festivals proved as valiant as Detroit through the dark days of the pandemic. Pictured: Chucho Valdés and Emmet Cohen.
Oct 11, 2022 1:48 PM
Few festivals proved as valiant as Detroit through the dark days of the pandemic. In both 2020 and 2021, the world’s…
Barber’s method of shaping up the music with fragmented beats, responsive polyrhythms and a surgical precision from behind the kit places him solidly in the ranks of other creative under-40 drummers on the scene today.
Oct 11, 2022 1:41 PM
Drummer Jonathan Barber has had the rare good fortune of being around the same like-minded crew of musicians since…
Herbie Hancock’s Sept. 28 set at the Hollywood Bowl fell in line with his smartly crafted concert menus of recent years.
Oct 3, 2022 11:03 PM
Musicians of a certain age and public visibility can lay claim to homecoming rites at special, sentimental venues,…
Allison Miller performs with Artemis at the 65th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival.
Oct 3, 2022 10:46 PM
The Monterey Jazz Festival bounced back to its maskless, pre-COVID self for its 65th edition, as the Arena Stage…
“I work. That’s my joy,” says 80-year-old trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith.
Oct 3, 2022 10:00 PM
At 80, Wadada Leo Smith seems to be having the time of his life. He maintains a healthy diet, drinking only one cup of…
Vasil Hajigrudev and Hristina Beleva perform as a duo during the European Jazz Network’s September gathering in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Oct 3, 2022 9:55 PM
Every year members and guests of the European Jazz Network, which was formed in 1987, gather in a new city on the…
Horn players Ambrose Akinmusire (left), Chris Potter, Joe Lovano, Ravi Coltrane and others perform during the Remembering Tomasz Stańko concert last month.
Oct 3, 2022 9:37 PM
An outstanding collection of jazz notables gathered in mid-September at the Brooklyn, New York, performing arts center…
The University of Toronto Jazz Orchestra performs.
Sep 29, 2022 1:10 PM
Check out some features from DownBeat’s annual Student Music Guide, which contains essential information for students…
The William Paterson Jazz Orchestra performs with guest artist Randy Brecker at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Sep 29, 2022 1:02 PM
In anticipation of its 50th anniversary in the spring of 2023, William Paterson University is already gearing up for…
Gunther Schuller, founder of NEC’s Third Stream department, now known as Contemporary Musical Arts.
Sep 29, 2022 12:57 PM
Gunther Schuller coined the term Third Stream in a lecture at Brandeis University in 1957, by which time he had long…
