May 26, 2026 11:08 AM
Sonny Rollins Passes Away at 95
Sonny Rollins, the iconic saxophonist, composer and improviser whose career stretched from the origins of bebop to 21st…
Eddie Palmieri is set to stream a performance on Saturday.
(Photo: Courtesy Of Artist)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.
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
Dec. 7: Angel Bat Dawid And Sistas Of The Nitty Gritty
Dec. 7: Markus Rutz Album Release
Dec. 7: Miguel Zenón In Conversation With Branford Marsalis
Dec. 7: Ari Hoenig Quartet
Dec. 8: Beady Belle, Arild Andersen Group (Big Ears)
Dec. 8: “Milford Graves Full Mantis” film with with director Jake Meginsky
Dec. 8: Jazz Composers’ Workshop Orchestra Concert With Frank Carlberg
Dec. 8: Will Bernard
Dec. 8: Paul Jost Quartet
Dec. 8: Ricardo Grilli Quintet
Dec. 8: The ASCAP Foundation Honors 2020
Dec. 9: Bill Charlap Trio
Dec. 9: Oscar Feldman Quartet
Dec. 10: Etienne Charles Trio
Dec. 10: Bird Calls (COVID-19 Musicians’ Emergency Fund Digital Concert)
Dec. 10: 60 Years Of Arhoolie Records (Taj Mahal, Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt)
Dec. 10: Juliet Kurtzman & Pete Malinverni
Dec. 10: Butcher Brown
Dec. 10: Theo Croker
Dec. 10: Scott Robinson
Dec. 10: Harish Raghavan
Dec. 10: Sean Jones
Dec. 10: Ken Fowser Quintet
Dec. 10: Matthew Shipp & Whit Dickey
Dec. 11: Nate Wooley
Dec. 11: Elephant9, Nils Petter Molvær Trio (Big Ears)
Dec. 11: The Klezmatics
Dec. 11: Tyshawn Sorey: Perle Noire (A Personal Portrait Of Josephine Baker)
Dec. 11: Maurice “Mobetta” Brown
Dec. 11: Sean Jones
Dec. 11: Tobias Meinhart Quartet
Dec. 11: Marta Sánchez Quintet
Dec. 11: Gerrit Hatcher/Joshua Abrams/Tyler Damon
Dec. 11: Ledisi
Dec. 11: Screening Of Throw Down Your Heart With Béla Fleck Q&A
Dec. 11: HaHa Holiday With Madeleine Peyroux
Dec. 11: Laila Biali Live Chat & Concert Rebroadcast
Dec. 12: Dragon Smoke
Dec. 12: Destiny Muhammad
Dec. 12: Eden Girma/Anjna Swaminathan, Erica Lindsay/Sara Serpa, Lesley Mok/Tomeka Reid
Dec. 12: Eddie Palmieri
Dec. 12: Kendra Shank & Pete McCann
Dec. 12: Sean Jones
Dec. 12: Oskar Stenmark Quartet
Dec. 12: Signatures In Brass Trumpet Summit (Marquis Hill/Theo Croker/Keyon Harrold/Kiveton Gelin)
Dec. 12: T.S. Monk & Producer Danny Scher Discuss Palo Alto
Dec. 13: Black Art Jazz Collective
Dec. 13: Peter And Will Anderson Quintet
Dec. 13: Lafayette Harris Jr. & Ken Filiano
Dec. 13: Joe Magnarelli Quintet
Updated Dec. 11
Onstage, Rollins would move about restlessly, thrusting his tenor sax in the air as he blew.
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