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…
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
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.’”
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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In her four-decade career, Renee Rosnes has been recognized as a singular voice, both as a jazz composer and a…
