Aug 26, 2025 1:53 PM
Blindfold Test: Buster Williams
Buster Williams, who at the age of 83 has been on the scene for 65 years, had never done a Blindfold Test. The first…
Christian McBride, Marcus Strickland and Christian Sands head up an ensemble celebrating What’s Goin’ On at 50 in New York.
(Photo: Courtesy 92nd Street Y)This week’s streaming highlights include the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, the Jeremy Pelt Quartet, the Dezron Douglas Quintet and Christian McBride honoring Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On at 50. 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
Available Now: Andrew Bird Livestream Archives
May 19: Dezron Douglas Quartet at Bar Bayeux (Brooklyn)
May 19: Keisha Janae/Ben Lamar Gay & Ayako Kato/Jason Roebke at Constellation (Chicago)
May 20: Ethan Philion Quartet at Constellation (Chicago)
May 21: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra — Freedom, Justice, and Hope
May 21: Keef Jackson Trio at Constellation (Chicago)
May 21–22: Jeremy Pelt Quartet at Smoke Jazz & Supper Club (New York)
May 21: Marvin Gaye: What’s Going On at 50 with Christian McBride at the 92nd Street Y (New York)
April 22: Twin Talk Trio at Constellation (Chicago)
May 23: Alisha Pattillo Quartet at Murray’s (Columbia, Missouri)
May 23: Bobby Rush Raw
“What I got from Percy was the dignity of playing the bass,” Buster Williams said of Percy Heath.
Aug 26, 2025 1:53 PM
Buster Williams, who at the age of 83 has been on the scene for 65 years, had never done a Blindfold Test. The first…
Don and Maureen Sickler serve as the keepers of engineer Rudy Van Gelder’s flame at Van Gelder Studio, perhaps the most famous recording studio in jazz history.
Sep 3, 2025 12:02 PM
On the last Sunday of 2024, in the control room of Van Gelder Studio, Don and Maureen Sickler, co-owners since Rudy Van…
Trio aRT with its avalanche of instrumentation: from left, Pheeroan akLaff, Scott Robinson and Julian Thayer.
Sep 3, 2025 12:03 PM
Trio aRT, a working unit since 1988, shockingly released its very first studio recording this summer. Recorded in…
“Think of all the creative people I’m going to meet and a whole other way of thinking about music and a challenge of singing completely different material than I would have sung otherwise to my highest level in dedication to the moment,” Elling says about his Broadway run.
Sep 9, 2025 1:18 PM
Kurt Elling was back at home in Chicago, grabbing some family time in a late-June window between gigs. Sporting a smile…
Pat Metheny will perform with his Side-Eye III ensemble at Big Ears 2026 in Knoxville, Tennessee, next March.
Sep 9, 2025 12:19 PM
Big Ears has announced the lineup for its 2026 festival, which will take place March 26–29 and include 250…
