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…
Check out the Kenny Barron Trio on March 20.
(Photo: Courtesy Jazz Forum Arts)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. A fee is associated with some of the material listed, and some items have been sourced from WBGO, WDCB and WWOZ. So, please support jazz radio, too. DB
March 15-21: Fred Hersch, Seven Days of Streams
March 16: SXSW
March 17: Bob Weir and Wolf Brothers (with Don Was, Jay Lane)
March 19: Sullivan Fortner via Dacamera
March 19: Jacob Slocum’s Rose Window at Constellation (Chicago)
March 20: Adiaphora Orchestra at Constellation (Chicago)
March 19-21: Derek Douget Band, A Night In New Orleans
March 20: Honoring Pat Martino, Alternative Guitar Summit 2021
March 20: Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox—Live (USA)
March 20: Yoko Miwa, East Coast Jazz Festival
March 20: Kenny Barron Trio at the Jazz Forum
March 21: Honoring Pat Martino, Alternative Guitar Summit 2021
March 21: Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox—Live (AUS)
March 21: Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox—Live (UK)
March 21: Tom Andy’s “Double-Keys” Quartet at Murray’s (Columbia, Missouri)
March 21: Amina Claudine Myers Birthday Salon
March 21: John Fedchock’s New York Sextet
“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.
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