Apr 8, 2025 1:23 PM
Blue Note Jazz Festival New York Posts 2025 Lineup
Blue Note Entertainment Group has unveiled the lineup for the 14th annual Blue Note Jazz Festival New York, featuring…
Brooklyn-based cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum will usher in the spring concert season with two concert events in New York that will feature him performing new original works with his bands.
On March 30 at Roulette, Bynum will lead his improvising chamber ensemble SpiderMonkey Strings and guest vocalist Kyoko Kitamura in the premier performance of his secular oratorio, “Madeleine Dreams.”
Bynum’s new 10-piece ensemble, Positive Catastrophe, co-led by percussionist Abraham Gomez-Delgado, will be in residence at Brooklyn’s Tea Lounge all five Mondays of the month.
“Madeleine Dreams” is inspired by the novel Madeleine Is Sleeping (Harcourt), a 2004 National Book Award finalist written by his sister, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum. The music was written specifically for Kitamura and SpiderMonkey Strings, a combination of brass, strings and drums featuring Joseph Daley, Jason Kao Hwang, Jessica Pavone, Tomas Ulrich, Pete Fitzpatrick and Luther Gray. The group will also perform “Madeleine Dreams” in Belgium and the Netherlands in early April.
Bynum describes Positive Catastrophe, the largest ensemble currently working under his leadership, as “a free-wheeling ensemble that connects the dots between Sun Ra and Willie Colón.”
More info: taylorhobynum.com
The Blue Note Jazz Festival New York kicks off May 27 with a James Moody 100th Birthday Celebration at Sony Hall.
Apr 8, 2025 1:23 PM
Blue Note Entertainment Group has unveiled the lineup for the 14th annual Blue Note Jazz Festival New York, featuring…
“I’m certainly influenced by Geri Allen,” said Iverson, during a live Blindfold Test at the 31st Umbria Jazz Winter festival.
Apr 15, 2025 11:44 AM
Between last Christmas and New Year’s Eve, Ethan Iverson performed as part of the 31st Umbria Jazz Winter festival in…
“At the end of the day, once you’ve run out of differences, we’re left with similarities,” Collier says. “Cultural differences are mitigated through 12 notes.”
Apr 15, 2025 11:55 AM
DownBeat has a long association with the Midwest Clinic International Band and Orchestra Conference, the premiere…
“It kind of slows down, but it’s still kind of productive in a way, because you have something that you can be inspired by,” Andy Bey said on a 2019 episode of NPR Jazz Night in America, when he was 80. “The music is always inspiring.”
Apr 29, 2025 11:53 AM
Singer Andy Bey, who illuminated the jazz scene for five decades with a four-octave range that encompassed a bellowing…
Foster was truly a drummer to the stars, including Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins and Joe Henderson.
Jun 3, 2025 11:25 AM
Al Foster, a drummer regarded for his fluency across the bebop, post-bop and funk/fusion lineages of jazz, died May 28…
