Jan 21, 2025 7:54 PM
Southern California Fires Hit the Jazz Community
Roy McCurdy and his wife had just finished eating dinner and were relaxing over coffee in their Altadena home, when he…
Bassist William Parker (shown here), pianist Matthew Shipp and drummer Bobby Kapp are set to stream a Thursday performance.
(Photo: Peter Gannushkin)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. Below, we’ll keep a running tab of jazz and blues programming scheduled for this week.
A fee is associated with some of the material listed here, and several items have been sourced from WBGO and Jazz at Lincoln Center. DB
Aug. 17: Zaccai Curtis Trio
Aug. 17: Jason Marshall Quintet
Aug. 18: Monty Alexander
Aug. 18: Conrad Tao
Aug. 18: Ancient Aliens
Aug. 18: Chris Dingman
Aug. 19: The Sofia Goodman Group
Aug. 19: Dominick Farinacci & Tamir Hendelman
Aug. 19: Brooklyn Circle
Aug. 20: Thana Alexa & Antonio Sanchez
Aug. 20: Satoko Fujii & Natsuki Tamura
Aug. 20: Anthony Pinciotti/Dayna Stephens/Omer Avital
Aug. 20: Matthew Shipp/Bobby Kapp/William Parker
Aug. 20: 2020 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert
Aug. 20: Patrick Bartley
Aug. 21: Amir ElSaffar
Aug. 21: Andrew Cyrille Quartet
Aug. 21: Vanessa Rubin
Aug. 21: Sammy DeLeon’s Latin Jazz Sextet
Aug. 21: Jackie Warren
Aug. 21: Mike Rodriguez Quintet
Aug. 21: Dianne Reeves: Music of ‘Bridges’
Aug. 21: Christian Sands Trio
Aug. 22: Andrew Cyrille Quartet
Aug. 22: Philip Harper Quintet
Aug. 22: Ben LaMar Gay
Aug. 22: Christian Sands Trio
Aug. 23: The New Orleans Brass Band Tradition: From The Streets To The World (presented by Dr. Michael White)
Aug. 23: Jazz Re:Fest
Aug. 23: Dara Tucker
Aug. 23: Mike Boone Quartet
Aug. 23: Christian Sands Trio
Aug. 23: Mayu Saeki & Warren Wolf
Aug. 23: Orrin Evans/Dezron Douglas/Johnathan Blake
Updated Aug. 18
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.
Jan 21, 2025 7:54 PM
Roy McCurdy and his wife had just finished eating dinner and were relaxing over coffee in their Altadena home, when he…
“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.’”
Feb 3, 2025 10:49 PM
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.
Jan 21, 2025 7:38 PM
Last November, Keith Jarrett, who has not played publicly since suffering two strokes in 2018, greenlighted ECM to drop…
“With jazz I thought it must be OK to be Black, for the first time,” says singer Sofia Jernberg.
Jan 2, 2025 10:50 AM
On Musho (Intakt), her recent duo album with pianist Alexander Hawkins, singer Sofia Jernberg interprets traditional…
“The first recording I owned with Brazilian music on it was Wayne Shorter’s Native Dancer,” says Renee Rosnes. “And then I just started to go down the rabbit hole.”
Jan 16, 2025 2:02 PM
In her four-decade career, Renee Rosnes has been recognized as a singular voice, both as a jazz composer and a…
