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…
Bandleader Francisco Mela is set to stream a solo drum performance Friday via Soapbox Gallery.
(Photo: Courtesy Newvelle)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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Feb. 8: Miguel Zenón In Conversation With Joe Lovano, Part 2
Feb. 8: Mordy Ferber/Yoni Rechter
Feb. 8: Gilad Hekselman Trio
Feb. 9: Paul Jost Quartet
Feb. 9: Josh Evans Group
Feb. 9: The Queens Streaming Winter Jazzfest
Feb. 10: Jazz’s 2nd Renaissance: The ’80s With Christian McBride
Feb. 10: Félix Lemerle (French Jazz Series @ Smalls)
Feb. 11: The Brianna Thomas Band
Feb. 11: Jeff “Tain” Watts
Feb. 11: Patricia Nicholson/William Parker/Gerald Cleaver/Bill Mazza
Feb. 11: Peter Slavov
Feb. 11: Tim Hegarty Quartet
Feb. 11: Lafayette Gilchrist
Feb. 11: Fay Victor
Feb. 12: SFJAZZ Collective Marks 50th Anniversary of Stand! and In A Silent Way
Feb. 12: Darrell Green Quintet
Feb. 12: Eric Kennedy/Joel Santiago/Warren Wolf
Feb. 13: Kiyoshi Kitagawa Trio
Feb. 13: Francisco Mela
Feb. 13: Jean Carn
Feb. 14: Valentine’s Day With The Harlem Gospel Choir
Feb. 14: Ian Hendrickson-Smith Group
Feb. 14: Jean Carn
Feb. 14: Veronica Swift & Dominick Farinacci
Updated Feb. 11
“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…
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…
