Aug 12, 2025 10:24 AM
Vocalist Sheila Jordan Dies at 96
Sheila Jordan, a vocalist who was celebrated for her scatting and lyric-improvising abilities, died Aug. 11 at her home…
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
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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
Jordan was a dyed-in-the-wool bebopper whose formative musical experiences were with Charlie Parker.
Aug 12, 2025 10:24 AM
Sheila Jordan, a vocalist who was celebrated for her scatting and lyric-improvising abilities, died Aug. 11 at her home…
“I don’t guess I’m going to excite you; I know I’m going to excite you,” Palmieri said in an August 1994 DownBeat feature.
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Famed Latin jazz composer, bandleader and pianist Eddie Palmieri passed away in his New Jersey home on Aug. 6. He was…
“What I got from Percy was the dignity of playing the bass,” Buster Williams said of Percy Heath.
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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…
The Free Slave, Cosmos Nucleus and Sunset To Dawn: three classic Muse albums being reissued this fall by Timer Traveler Recordings.
Aug 26, 2025 1:32 PM
Record producer and “Jazz Detective” Zev Feldman has launched his next endeavor, the archival label Time Traveler…
