May 17, 2022 12:24 PM
Melissa Aldana: A Sprinkle of Stardust
Melissa Aldana’s musical journey has been sprinkled with stardust, from 1990s TV appearances as a saxophone prodigy…
“I always have this feeling of emptiness after I play a concert,” Aldana said. “This has been for years. Sometimes I can easily cry, and there’s nothing wrong.”
May 17, 2022 12:24 PM
Melissa Aldana’s musical journey has been sprinkled with stardust, from 1990s TV appearances as a saxophone prodigy…
“I’ve always been into the zodiac and the truth that’s within it, but during this pandemic, we all had to time and space to do that,” Hill said.
May 17, 2022 12:20 PM
Trumpeter Marquis Hill speaks in quietly determined tones. Through a Zoom conversation from his college office in…
DakhaBrakha performs at New Orleans Jazz Fest
May 17, 2022 12:12 PM
“When I was staying down here, people asked me do you want to come here and do a festival like Newport,” George…
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…
