Sep 27, 2019 2:28 PM
Premiere: Hear John Raymond Get Nostalgic on ‘Where We Grew Up’
Flugelhornist John Raymond knows not to overwhelm folks with a flurry of notes—or a flurry of recordings.
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Bandleader John Raymond is set for a short run of dates beginning Oct. 1 in Detroit.
Sep 27, 2019 2:28 PM
Flugelhornist John Raymond knows not to overwhelm folks with a flurry of notes—or a flurry of recordings.
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JD Allen’s latest effort, Barracoon, is predicated on emotion more than charts.
Sep 27, 2019 9:20 AM
Bar Bayeux is a narrow venue tucked between a hair salon and a deli on Brooklyn’s Nostrand Avenue.
There’s just…
Barrett Martin’s recent creative endeavors include a book and a related album.
Sep 26, 2019 9:00 AM
Many musicians who thrived during the alternative-rock gold rush of the 1990s have, by now, hopped onto the nostalgia…
Exploratory guitarist Mary Halvorson is among the 2019 MacArthur Foundation fellows.
Sep 25, 2019 9:28 AM
The MacArthur Foundation announced its 2019 fellows today, and among them is guitarist Mary Halvorson.
New…
Rob Mazurek has three new releases on the Astral Spirits label.
Sep 25, 2019 9:00 AM
In a climatic gun battle in John Sandford’s 2017 crime novel, Golden Prey, bullets tear through a room in Marfa,…
For Utica Box, drummer Dan Weiss (center) convenes an acoustic ensemble—a group that contrasts the electric display of his 2018 Starebaby.
Sep 24, 2019 11:25 AM
Drummer Dan Weiss apparently relishes the compositional colors afforded to his groups when he doubles-up…
Harold Mabern (1936–2019)
Sep 24, 2019 11:16 AM
In July 1975, 39-year-old Harold Mabern took the stage at Carnegie Hall during a solo piano night at the New York City…
Guitarist Nels Cline (left), composer/reedist Anthony Braxton, drummer Greg Saunier and multi-instrumentalist Taylor Ho Bynum recorded Quartet (New Haven) 2014 five years ago. The work only now is being released on Firehouse 12, an imprint based in New Haven, Connecticut.
Sep 24, 2019 9:23 AM
Speaking with Anthony Braxton is much like trying to improvise alongside the 74-year-old reedist: You need to stay on…
Harry Connick Jr. performs his new one-man show Sept. 21 at the Durham Performing Arts Center in Durham, North Carolina.
Sep 23, 2019 7:16 PM
With a career as a multiplatinum jazz singer, pianist, composer and arranger spanning more than 40 years—and two…
Pianist Chick Corea, bassist Christian McBride and drummer Brian Blade follow their 2014 recording with Triology 2, a two-disc live set due out Oct. 4.
Sep 23, 2019 11:24 AM
In a piece on Trilogy 2, DownBeat writer James Hale says the “artistic breadth and technical facility” of bassist…
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