Aug 26, 2025 1:53 PM
Blindfold Test: Buster Williams
Buster Williams, who at the age of 83 has been on the scene for 65 years, had never done a Blindfold Test. The first…
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, some are using online streaming services to connect directly with fans. Here are a few events streaming this week.
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March 8: UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra: Awakening—New Music for Jazz Orchestra
March 9: Kermit Ruffins from the House of Blues (New Orleans)
March 10: Maria Schneider for New England Conservatory’s Grow Your Art
March 11: Shuffle—Luxembourg Jazz Meeting
March 11: Matthew Evan Taylor, The Unheard Mixtapes
March 11: Helen Sung Quartet: Live From Dizzy’s
March 12: Winter’s Jazz Club Jazz Revival, Part 2
March 13: Alligator Records 50th Anniversary Streaming Celebration Launch
March 13: Brass Fest In The Bubble (New Orleans)
March 13: Camila Mennite Pereyra Quintet at Constellation (Chicago)
March 13: Winter’s Jazz Club Jazz Revival, Part 2
March 13: Camila Mennitte Pereyra Quintet at Constellation (Chicago)
March 14: Winter’s Jazz Club Jazz Revival, Part 2
March 14 Dr. Michael White & the Original Liberty Jazz Band at Snug Harbor (New Orleans)
“What I got from Percy was the dignity of playing the bass,” Buster Williams said of Percy Heath.
Aug 26, 2025 1:53 PM
Buster Williams, who at the age of 83 has been on the scene for 65 years, had never done a Blindfold Test. The first…
Don and Maureen Sickler serve as the keepers of engineer Rudy Van Gelder’s flame at Van Gelder Studio, perhaps the most famous recording studio in jazz history.
Sep 3, 2025 12:02 PM
On the last Sunday of 2024, in the control room of Van Gelder Studio, Don and Maureen Sickler, co-owners since Rudy Van…
The Free Slave, Cosmos Nucleus and Sunset To Dawn: three classic Muse albums being reissued this fall by Timer Traveler Recordings.
Aug 26, 2025 1:32 PM
Record producer and “Jazz Detective” Zev Feldman has launched his next endeavor, the archival label Time Traveler…
This year’s Jazz em Agosto set by the Darius Jones Trio captured the titular alto saxophonist at his most ferocious.
Aug 26, 2025 1:31 PM
The organizers of Lisbon, Portugal’s Jazz em Agosto Festival assume its audience is thoughtful and independent. Over…
Trio aRT with its avalanche of instrumentation: from left, Pheeroan akLaff, Scott Robinson and Julian Thayer.
Sep 3, 2025 12:03 PM
Trio aRT, a working unit since 1988, shockingly released its very first studio recording this summer. Recorded in…
