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…
Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt and pianist George Cables are set to stream a Saturday show this week.
(Photo: Kasia Idzkowska)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. 21: Phill Niblock: 6 Hours Of Music And Film
Dec. 21: Joe Farnsworth Sextet
Dec. 21: Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang’s Winter Solstice Evening Concert
Dec. 22: Emily Braden’s Christmas Special With The Misha Piatigorsky Trio
Dec. 22: Steve Nelson Quartet
Dec. 23: Zach Brock/Bob Lanzetti
Dec. 23: Simona Premazzi Quartet
Dec. 24: Jan Luley
Dec. 24: Adam Shulman Plays Vince Guaraldi’s A Charlie Brown Christmas
Dec. 24: Ron Carter/Russell Malone
Dec. 24: David Kikoski/Matt Clohesy
Dec. 24: Palladium Plays Speak No Evil
Dec. 25: Christmas With The Harlem Gospel Choir
Dec. 25: Nick Hempton Band
Dec. 26: Steve Sandberg/Boris Koslov/Rudy Royston
Dec. 26: Jeremy Pelt/George Cables
Dec. 26: Tamir Hendelman
Dec. 27: Jim Ridl
Dec. 27: Jochen Rueckert Quartet
Dec. 27: Jazz For Justice (Warren Smith, Caroline Davis, Bilal, Sarah Elizabeth Charles, Camille Thurman)
Updated Dec. 22
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…
