Jan 16, 2018 4:24 PM
Q&A with Jojo Mayer: 21st Century Prohibited Beats
The setting: Finland’s 36th annual Tampere Jazz Happening, which ran Nov. 2-5. Swiss-born drummer Jojo Mayer’s band…
Swiss-born drummer Jojo Mayer doesn’t want to player like robot, but he used to.
Jan 16, 2018 4:24 PM
The setting: Finland’s 36th annual Tampere Jazz Happening, which ran Nov. 2-5. Swiss-born drummer Jojo Mayer’s band…
Rez Abbasi’s Invocation performed Saturday at Zinc Bar as part of 2018’s Winter Jazzfest.
Jan 15, 2018 11:00 AM
If Winter Jazzfest acts as a kind of annual State of the Music address—and it does—then the ideal way to consume it…
Jason Moran’s autobiographical Thelonious Monk homage, “In My Mind,” found him in the company of a relatively large band at Italy’s Umbria Jazz.
Jan 15, 2018 8:00 AM
Although the 25th anniversary edition of Umbria Jazz Winter in Orvieto, Italy, celebrated hitting a milestone Dec. 28…
Bandleader Roy Hargrove recently finished a two-week stint at Chicago’s Jazz Showcase.
Jan 11, 2018 11:07 AM
Roy Hargrove has been ringing in the New Year at Joe and Wayne Segal’s Jazz Showcase for many years.
“About 20…
Nicole Mitchell is this year’s artist-in-residence at Winter Jazzfest in New York.
Jan 10, 2018 10:28 AM
For flautist and composer Nicole Mitchell, Gwendolyn Brooks is a “huge inspiration.”
Aside from her prolific…
Jazzmeia Horn channeled Betty Carter and Sarah Vaughan at the Umbria Jazz festival during December.
Jan 9, 2018 11:25 AM
Just after twilight Dec. 28 on the ground floor of the 14th-century Palazzo del Popolo, when the last note of the…
Harold Mabern (from left), Wes Montgomery, Arthur Harper and Jimmy Lovelace perform at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, France on March 27, 1965.
Jan 8, 2018 2:46 PM
Guitarist Wes Montgomery’s legendary 1965 concert in Paris has been released under many titles, yet it had never been…
The Cuneiform Records team poses with a few copies of DownBeat magazine.
Jan 5, 2018 10:42 AM
Cuneiform Records, a Silver Springs, Maryland, label that’s released hundreds of jazz and experimental albums…
Alicia Hall Moran and Thomas Flippin perform at Gavin Brown’s enterprise in New York.
Jan 4, 2018 3:58 PM
Almost nothing on Here Today, the second full-length from vocalist Alicia Hall Moran, comes as expected. The opening…
Drummer and percussionist Milford Graves has embraced unorthodox styles in both jazz and martial arts. A new documentary about his work has set its international debut.
Jan 3, 2018 4:20 PM
The new film Milford Graves Full Mantis is as much a visual poem as it is a documentary.
The film—which examines not…
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