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…
The Portuguese label Clean Feed will release four albums in late November. Manifold, from saxophonist Steve Lehman’s quartet, follows Lehman’s earlier releases Interface (Clean Feed) and Artificial Light (Fresh Sound).
Stephen Gauci’s Basso Continuo, referring to the twin double-bass backbone Mike Bisio and Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten provide to Stephen Gauci’s quartet, features original compositions by the quartet.
Saxophonist Tony Malaby joins William Parker, double bass, and Nasheet Waits, drums, on Tamarindo. All music on the disk was composed by Malaby.
The MI 3’s Free Advice features Pandelis Karayorgis, piano, Nate McBride, bass, and Curt Newton, drums. The early release in the Clean Feed catalog from mi3, We Will Make a Home for You, differs greatly from this offering. Instead of the Fender Rhodes and the setting of that vintage instrument in a 21st century context, Karayorgis plays a grand piano. The album features an arrangement of Duke Ellington’s “The Mystery Song,” inspired by Steve Lacy’s version on his 1961 album Evidence.
More info: cleanfeed-records.com
“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…
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…
“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…
