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…
Vocalist Sheila Jordan is set to mark her 92nd birthday with a livestreamed performance on Wednesday, Nov. 18.
(Photo: Janice Tsai)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 for the week below.
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Nov. 16: Anjna Swaminathan
Nov. 16: Jay Rodriguez-Sierra/Arturo O’ Farrill/Brujeria
Nov. 16: Joe Farnsworth Trio
Nov. 17: Aaron Diehl
Nov. 17: Taj Mahal
Nov. 17: Bendik Hofseth’s Woodland, Mathias Eick Quintet (Big Ears)
Nov. 17: Frank Lacy Group
Nov. 18: Ben Rosenblum
Nov. 18: When Justice Is The Message with Dana Hall And Omar Tate
Nov. 18: Jerome Sabbagh/Mark Turner/Joe Martin/Bill Stewart
Nov. 18: Jim Ridl Group
Nov. 18: Sheila Jordan 92nd Birthday Celebration
Nov. 18: Kassa Overall
Nov. 19: Brandon Goldberg Quintet
Nov. 19: Lucinda Williams
Nov. 19: Eric Harland
Nov. 19: Ed Cherry Trio
Nov. 19: Lauren Sevian’s LSQ
Nov. 19: Jeff Parker & Harold Mendez: Let Us Gather In A Flourishing Way
Nov. 20: Luba Mason
Nov. 20: A Guitar Assembly: Marisa Anderson, William Tyler, Yasmin Williams (Big Ears)
Nov. 20: Vermont Jazz Center Emerging Artist Festival
Nov. 20: Don Braden Album Release And Birthday Celebration
Nov. 20: Anat Cohen Tentet
Nov. 20: Jay Clayton 3 For The Road
Nov. 20: Melissa Aldana Quintet
Nov. 20: Gene Perla’s 3 Trios
Nov. 20: Vincent Herring Quartet
Nov. 21: The Soul Rebels and Big Freedia
Nov. 21: Vermont Jazz Center Emerging Artist Festival
Nov. 21: Helio Alves/Paul Socolow Projeto Do Momento Memento
Nov. 21: Joel Ross Quartet
Nov. 21: Vincent Herring Quartet
Nov. 22: Evolution Of Jazz Organ Presented By Joey DeFrancesco With Billy Hart And Jerry Weldon
Nov. 22: 6Degrees 10th Anniversary Fall Concert
Nov. 22: Brian Charette/Melanie Scholtz
Nov. 22: Steve Nelson Quartet
Nov. 22: Veronica Swift
Nov. 22: Film Screening And Q&A: Billie
Updated Nov. 19
“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…
“I love doing ballads,” Mike Stern says. “It’s just a part of me, some part of emotionally how I feel sometimes.”
Dec 3, 2024 12:52 PM
Stories of major shifts and rebirths among musicians during the past five years are common, from weathering the…
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…
Queen Latifah extols Harlem and the Apollo Theater at this year’s Kennedy Center Honors.
Dec 12, 2024 1:58 AM
Cuban-American jazz trumpet legend Arturo Sandoval and Harlem’s Apollo Theater were among the honorees at the 2024…
“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…
