Aug 5, 2025 12:20 PM
The Westerlies’ Shape-Note Explorations
“Have you ever gotten together with 40 strangers and belted out songs for three hours?” Andy Clausen asks.…
The Westerlies, from left: Addison Maye-Saxon, Riley Mulherkar, Andy Clausen and Chloe Rowlands.
Aug 5, 2025 12:20 PM
“Have you ever gotten together with 40 strangers and belted out songs for three hours?” Andy Clausen asks.…
“Playing duo is one of the most difficult things to do, after playing solo,” said drummer Lesley Mok, shown here with her duo cohort, pianist Phillip Golub.
Aug 5, 2025 12:11 PM
In the waning days of COVID, when the world was learning how to reconnect, two New York artists began meeting across…
Dawn Clement brought a new, loose-limbed edge — in both her playing and her programming — to an event that has sometimes felt stodgy.
Aug 5, 2025 12:03 PM
The weeklong student workshop and weekend festival Jazz Port Townsend celebrated its 46th birthday this July with a…
Chuck Mangione on the cover of the May 8, 1975, edition of DownBeat.
Jul 29, 2025 1:00 PM
Chuck Mangione, one of the most popular trumpeters in jazz history, passed away on July 24 at home in Rochester, New…
“All those female voices are choirs of women coming to heal the world from the imbalance of the masculine and feminine,” Meza says of her new album, Portal.
Jul 29, 2025 12:53 PM
Camila Meza has been on a journey of self-discovery since the multifaceted vocalist, guitarist and composer first…
Nicholas Payton looked very zen in this photo used for a feature in the January 2024 edition of DownBeat. His departure from Berklee College of Music was anything but.
Jul 29, 2025 12:45 PM
We live in divisive times. Earlier this year, we learned that the gifted composer, bandleader and trumpeter Nicholas…
Brian Charette’s Borderless is his latest album — just Charette, solo, and his Hammond B-3.
Jul 29, 2025 12:19 PM
Of all the instruments that have defined the course of modern jazz for the past 80 years, the organ might be the most…
Christie Dashiell, left, and Terri Lyne Carrington demonstrate the resilience of Max Roach’s classic ’60s protest recording.
Jul 22, 2025 11:22 AM
We Insist 2025!, the new album by Terri Lyne Carrington and Christie Dashiell, resonates from its core with echoes of…
The first vinyl releases from the rejuvenated Strata-East Records are out, with more to come.
Jul 22, 2025 11:02 AM
The first vinyl releases from the recently rejuvenated Strata-East Records remind us how persuasive and powerful jazz…
Galper was often regarded as an underrated master of his craft.
Jul 22, 2025 10:58 AM
Hal Galper, a pianist, composer and arranger who enjoyed a substantial performing career but made perhaps a deeper…
