May 26, 2026 11:08 AM
Sonny Rollins Passes Away at 95
Sonny Rollins, the iconic saxophonist, composer and improviser whose career stretched from the origins of bebop to 21st…
Mark de Clive-Lowe was raised in New Zealand playing piano, moved to the UK during the 1990s and pursued electronic music before moving to Los Angeles and working around the edges of jazz.
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Saxophonist Melissa Aldana is among performers hosting live performances via Zoom.
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Camila Meza is among the musicians streaming live concerts during the lockdown around coronavirus.
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Emmet Cohen—shown here with his first-place trophy at the 2019 American Pianists Association finals at the Hilbert Circle Theatre in Indianapolis on April 6—is among the musicians streaming live concerts during the lockdown around coronavirus.
(Photo: Mark Sheldon)As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a number of musicians are using online streaming services to connect directly with fans. We’ll keep a running tab below.
A fee is associated with some of the material listed here, and several items were sourced from WBGO and Jazz at Lincoln Center. DB
Daily: Fred Hersch
Daily: Third Man Public Access
Daily: Sammy Miller and the Congregation
March 23: Emmett Cohen
March 23: Camila Meza
March 25: Ben Williams
March 25: The Quarantine Concerts (Experimental Sound Studio)
March 25: David Hillyard & The Rocksteady Seven
March 25: Jeremy Siskind
March 25-30: Music on the Rebound
March 26: Iiro Rantala
March 26: Jackie Gage (Live From Home)
March 26: Jon Batiste x Global Citizen
March 26-April 11: Savannah Music Festival at Noon30
March 27: Carlos Santana & Cindy Blackman Santana
March 27: Yoko Miwa
March 27: Jazz House Kids with Christian McBride
March 27: Brandee Younger & Dezron Douglas
March 27: Melissa Aldana
March 27: ELEW
March 27: SFJAZZ Fridays at Five (Julian Lage)
March 27: Mark Dresser
March 28: Yoko Miwa
March 28: Gerald Beckett
March 29: Steven Feifke & Alexa Tarantino (Celebrating Charlie Parker’s Centennial)
March 29: Miguel Zenón
March 30: Aaron Parks
March 30: Bennett Roth-Newell (Live From Home)
March 30: Jana Herzen & Charnett Moffett
March 30: Jane Bunnett & Maqueque
March 30: Helen Sung (in support of the Mingus Big Band, Mingus Orchestra and Myngus Dynasty ensembles)
March 31: Duchess album release party
March 31: The Sound of Ben Webster (The National Jazz Museum in Harlem)
April 1: Kris Davis
April 1: Tyler Bullock
April 1-7: Live From Our Living Rooms (Corea, Frisell, Lovano, Liebman, McBride)
April 3–May 1: Force Majeure (Brandee Younger & Dezron Douglas)
April 2: Shayna Steele (Live From Home)
April 2: Bill Frisell
April 2: Live from Dizzy’s Club: Camille Thurman & Darrell Green
April 3: Becca Stevens
April 3: SFJAZZ Fridays at Five (Lizz Wright)
April 3: Lara Downes (Some Of These Days: Livestream concert for Feeding America)
April 3: Fabian Almazan & Linda May Han Oh
April 3: Rhizome DC Presents: Home Times Concerts
April 3-May 1: Lizzie Thomas & John Colianni
April 3: Adam Birnbaum & Aaron Diehl
April 3: Nduduzo Makhathini (1:30 p.m. EST)
April 3: Nduduzo Makhathini (2 p.m. EST)
April 3: Kurt Elling
April 4: Vijay Iyer
April 4: Adam Rogers
April 4: Joe Lovano & Judi Silvano
April 4: Jorma Kaukonen “Live from the Fur Peace Ranch”
April 4: Sullivan Fortner & Aaron Parks
April 5: Steven Feifke & Alexa Tarantino (The Music of Carlos Jobim)
April 5: Meran Ben Horin & Yotam Sliberstein (Live From Our Living Rooms)
April 5: Owen Broder & Ethan Helm (Live From Our Living Rooms)
April 5: Becca Stevens (Live From Our Living Rooms)
April 5: Emmet Cohen & Dan Tepfer
April 6: Harish Raghavan
April 6: Emmet Cohen
April 6: John Patitucci
April 7: Antonio Sánchez & Thana Alexa
April 7: Brandee Younger & Dezron Douglas
April 7: Antonio Sánchez & Thana Alexa
April 8: Orrin Evans
April 9: Vuyo Sotashe
April 9: A Closer Listen: Sherman Irby’s Inferno
April 9–May 1: Bob James
April 10: SFJAZZ Fridays at Five (Pink Martini)
April 10: Melissa Aldana (Q&A hosted by UChicago Presents)
April 11: ELEW
April 12: Jimmy Greene
April 12: Miguel Zenón
April 12: Rachel Therrien
April 12–May 31: Champian Fulton
April 12–14: Cafe Oto’s 12th Anniversary
April 13: Emmet Cohen
April 13: Ben Lamar Gay
April 15: Cuban-Khaleeji Project
April 16: Arturo O’Farrill & Adam O’Farrill
April 17: Rob Luft album release
April 18: Aaron Diehl Trio
April 19: Rachel Therrien
April 20: Emmet Cohen
April 21: Michael Leonhart
April 23: David Helbock´s Random/Control
April 25: The Jazz Gallery’s Lockdown Session (Arta Jakabsone, Aaron Parks, Dayna Stephens, Dan Tepfer)
April 26: Conrad Tao
April 26: Rachel Therrien
April 27: Emmet Cohen
April 27–May 30: Satoko Fujii & Natsuki Tamura
April 27-May 1: Stephane Wrembel
April 27: Vijay Iyer
April 28: Mark de Clive-Lowe
April 29: Bria Skonberg
April 30: Art Is Live (Greg Ward)
April 30: Jazz & Gender: Language, Equity & Action
April 30: Black Art Jazz Collective
April 30: Tim Berne & David Torn
May 1: Yoko Miwa
May 1: Brandee Younger & Dezron Douglas
May 1: Bob James
May 1: Tony Malaby & Angelica Sanchez
May 1: Nir Felder & Peter Zak
May 2: Yoko Miwa
May 2: Jeremy Pelt
May 3: María Grand
May 4: Dan Weiss
May 5: Fay Victor
May 8: Yoko Miwa
May 8: Aubrey Johnson
May 8: Trombone Shorty
May 8: Johnathan Blake
May 8: Rob Brown & Steve Swell
May 8: Jorge Roeder
May 8: Sara Serpa & André Matos, Ran Blake, Sofia Rei, Fay Victor
May 9: Yoko Miwa
May 9: Linda May Han Oh
May 9: Helen Sung
May 10: Camille Thurman & Darrell Green
May 13: Justin Brown
May 14: Quiana Lynell
May 14: Brandee Younger
May 15: Yoko Miwa
May 15: Fay Victor & Brian Marsella
May 15: Allan Harris
May 15: Isaiah Sharkey
May 16: Kate Baker & Dave Stryker
May 16: Joey Alexander
May 16: Theo Crocker
May 17: Kat Edmonson
May 17: Ivan Neville
May 17: Rachel Therrien
May 17: Delia Fischer
May 18: Lafayette Gilchrist
May 19: Allan Harris
May 19: Ben Williams
May 20: Rajna Swaminathan
May 20: Bill Frisell
May 20: Joel Ross
May 21: Sara Serpa
May 21: Jason Marsalis’ Trio Excursions
May 21: Ron Carter
May 21: Chick Corea
May 21: Harold López-Nussa
May 22: Keyon Harrold
May 23: Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science
May 23: Ran Blake (Jazz Journal Association Local Hero Award Boston 2020)
May 23: Jaleel Shaw
May 23: Marcus Miller
May 23: Felix Pastorius
May 23: Ben Rosenblum
May 24: Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science
May 24: Benjamin Jephta
May 24: Brandee Younger & Dezron Douglas
May 24: Ben Rosenblum
May 28: Jason Marsalis & the 21st Century Trad Band (Benny Goodman Edition)
May 28: Jamie Saft & Vanessa Saft
June 5: Sara Serpa
June 9: Alan Broadbent
Updated May 19
Onstage, Rollins would move about restlessly, thrusting his tenor sax in the air as he blew.
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