Dec 17, 2024 9:58 AM
Tabla Master Zakir Hussain, 73, Succumbs to Illness
Tabla master Ustad Zakir Hussain, one of India’s reigning cultural ambassadors and a revered figure worldwide…
Chicago’s Symphony Center has unveiled the lineup for its 10-concert 2007-‘08 Jazz at Symphony Center concert series, which will be presented in the center’s Orchestra Hall. The series includes performances by Stefon Harris, the Roy Haynes Quartet, Dick Hyman, Wayne Shorter and more.
Jazz at Symphony Center 2007-‘08 Concert Season:
Oct. 5
Roy Haynes Quartet
Stefon Harris
Oct. 26
Django Reinhardt Festival
Dick Hyman and Friends
Nov. 16
Jason Moran
Jan. 18, 2008
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
March 14, 2008
SFJAZZ Collective
March 28, 2008
The Joshua Redman Trio
April 11, 2008
New Orleans Jazz Orchestra with Irvin Mayfield
April 18, 2008
Amad Jamal Trio
Chicago Jazz Orchestra with Jeff Lindberg
May 16, 2008
Danilo Pérez Trio
David Sánchez Quartet
June 6, 2008
The Wayne Shorter Quartet
For more information, visit: www.cso.org
“Watching people like Max Roach or Elvin Jones and seeing how they utilize the whole drum kit in a very rhythmic and melodic way and how they stretched time — that was a huge inspiration to me,” Hussain said in DownBeat.
Dec 17, 2024 9:58 AM
Tabla master Ustad Zakir Hussain, one of India’s reigning cultural ambassadors and a revered figure worldwide…
Gerald and John Clayton at the family home in Altadena during a photo shoot for the June 2022 cover of DownBeat. The house was lost during the Los Angeles fires.
Jan 21, 2025 7:54 PM
Roy McCurdy and his wife had just finished eating dinner and were relaxing over coffee in their Altadena home, when he…
Queen Latifah extols Harlem and the Apollo Theater at this year’s Kennedy Center Honors.
Dec 12, 2024 1:58 AM
Cuban-American jazz trumpet legend Arturo Sandoval and Harlem’s Apollo Theater were among the honorees at the 2024…
“With jazz I thought it must be OK to be Black, for the first time,” says singer Sofia Jernberg.
Jan 2, 2025 10:50 AM
On Musho (Intakt), her recent duo album with pianist Alexander Hawkins, singer Sofia Jernberg interprets traditional…
The Old Country: More From The Deer Head Inn arrives 30 years after ECM issued the Keith Jarret Trio live album At The Deer Head Inn.
Jan 21, 2025 7:38 PM
Last November, Keith Jarrett, who has not played publicly since suffering two strokes in 2018, greenlighted ECM to drop…
