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…
Fay Victor is set for an online conversation Wednesday with another vocalist and improviser, Joan La Barbara, as a part of the The New School’s CoPA Conversations.
(Photo: Chris Weiss)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
July 20: Don Braden Quartet
July 20: Tashi Dorji
July 20: Ethan Iverson Group
July 20: Nicki Parrott Presents Chez Nicki Jams
July 20: Mingus Monday with Wayne Escoffery
July 21: Joel Ross
July 21: Nicki Parrott Trio
July 21: Sacha Perry Group
July 22: Doug Munro & La Pompe Attack
July 22: Emilio Modeste Group
July 22: JAZZ HOUSE KiDS Wednesday Summer Sessions with Sean Jones
July 22: Mark Dresser/Anthony Davis/Michael Dessen
July 22: Joan La Barbara & Fay Victor (CoPA Conversations)
July 22: Ben Rosenblum
July 23: Orrin Evans (Dedication to Billy Strayhorn)
July 23: Mimi Jones Group
July 23: The Akiko Tsuruga Quintet
July 23: Henry Cole
July 24: Cécile McLorin Salvant
July 24: David Rodgers Experiment
July 24: Ron Carter’s Golden Striker Trio
July 24: Ken Fowser Sextet
July 24: James Brandon Lewis/Kirk Knuffke/Gerald Cleaver
July 24: Maurice “Mobetta” Brown
July 24: Steve Turre & Friends
July 24: Tom Marriott/Jeff Johnson/Rick Mandyck/John Bishop
July 24: The Cookers
July 24: Cécile McLorin Salvant & Sullivan Fortner
July 25: Nicole Zuraitis Ensemble
July 25: Ron Carter’s Golden Striker Trio
July 25: Don Aliquo Quartet
July 25: Ramsey Lewis (The Beatles Songbook)
July 25: The Cookers
July 25: TVL Ruido Festival (Mette Rasmussen, Ken Vandermark & more)
July 26: Jason Palmer
July 26: Santi Debriano Flash of the Spirit
July 26: The Cookers
July 26: Orrin Evans Quartet
Updated July 24
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…
