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…
Jeff “Tain” Watts performs with his trio June 16 at Bar Bayeux in Brooklyn.
(Photo: Courtesy tainish.com)This week’s streaming highlights feature the Jeff Watts Trio in Brooklyn, Paul Winter’s 26th Annual Summer Solstice Celebration, a tribute to John Coltrane, two cool Juneteenth celebrations, Roseanne Vitro and more. As always, a fee is associated with some of the material listed, and some items have been sourced from WBGO, WDCB and WWOZ. Please support jazz radio. DB
June 16: Jeff Watts Trio at Bar Bayeux (Brooklyn)
June 16: BMI Jazz Composers Workshop Showcase
June 17: Ella Bric Aka Linda Briceño, Joe’s Pub Uncharted Concert Series (New York)
June 17: Roseanna Vitro with Houston Person, Sullivan Fortner, Dean Johnson and Alvester Garnett
June 17: Jill McCarron Trio + Will Anderson at Jazz Forum (New York)
June 18: Bill Mackay with Timothy Green at Constellation (Chicago)
June 19: Paul Winter’s 26th Annual Summer Solstice Celebration (Connecticut)
June 19: Freedom Songs Virtual Juneteenth Celebration with Willie Dixon’s original band (Chicago)
June 19: Nick Mazzarella’s Meridian Trio at Constellation (Chicago)
June 19: Anjelika “Jelly” Joseph Live at the Jazz & Heritage Center (New Orleans)
June 19: Juneteenth Oregon produced by PDX Jazz
June 19: Freedom Songs Junteenth Celebration featuring the Original Chicago Blues All Stars Review
“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.
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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.
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“She said, ‘A lot of people are going to try and stop you,’” Sheryl Bailey recalls of the advice she received from jazz guitarist Emily Remler (1957–’90). “‘They’re going to say you slept with somebody, you’re a dyke, you’re this and that and the other. Don’t listen to them, and just keep playing.’”
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In the April 1982 issue of People magazine, under the heading “Lookout: A Guide To The Up and Coming,” jazz…
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.
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Last November, Keith Jarrett, who has not played publicly since suffering two strokes in 2018, greenlighted ECM to drop…
