Jan 23, 2024 11:45 AM
Resourceful Talent on Display at South Beach Jazz Festival
Between Jan. 4 and Jan. 7, as northerners froze, Miami Beach held the (mostly) outdoors South Beach Jazz Festival.…
Opening night featured the duo of Miami native Cécile McLorin Salvant and Sullivan Fortner.
Jan 23, 2024 11:45 AM
Between Jan. 4 and Jan. 7, as northerners froze, Miami Beach held the (mostly) outdoors South Beach Jazz Festival.…
Samara Joy performing at the 2023 Monterey Jazz Festival.
Jan 16, 2024 11:55 AM
Samara Joy posted a personal video on her social media this fall in which her grandfather, Elder Goldwire McLendon, is…
The Black Men of Labor Club leads a second line parade, from the documentary City of a Million Dreams.
Jan 16, 2024 11:38 AM
Last year was a good one for jazz and jazz-adjacent documentaries. Most prominent among them are the well-distributed…
Billy Mohler’s Ultraviolet was inspired by Sonny Rollins’ A Night At The Village Vanguard and Ornette Coleman’s The Shape Of Jazz To Come.
Jan 16, 2024 11:27 AM
As part of the finale evening of this year’s Angel City Jazz Festival, bassist-bandleader Billy Mohler took the stage…
Seeking to create a vibe similar to New York’s Village Vanguard, Paul Solomon (left) and David Robaire have made L.A.-based Sam First an artist-friendly club with its own record label.
Jan 16, 2024 11:22 AM
The back entrance opens into a cozy, darkened room, leather-cushioned benches snaking around the irregular, rounded…
The Blue Note Quintet includes Gerald Clayton, Immanuel Wilkins, Joel Ross, Kendrick Scott and Matt Brewer. The all-star collective embarks on a North American tour this month.
Jan 9, 2024 12:36 PM
The Blue Note Quintet, an all-star collective of Blue Note recording artists, will embark on an extensive North…
Shabaka, previously known as Shabaka Hutchings, is the artist-in-residence at this year’s NYC Winter Jazzfest.
Jan 9, 2024 12:28 PM
The coming week promises to be a busy and fruitful time in New York for jazz artists and improvising musicians who are…
“I feel honored to have been a part of this legacy and tradition,” Jackson says of his years at the helm of the Monterey Jazz Festival. “I’m proud of the work that I did.”
Jan 8, 2024 10:48 PM
“It’s an honor,” said Monterey Jazz Festival artistic director Tim Jackson, when he heard he would be receiving…
“He knew how to administer to the needs of a beginner, and had the skill set and patience to teach somebody young,” says saxophonist Greg Osby of his first music teacher, Fred Irby III.
Jan 8, 2024 10:42 PM
The 2023–’24 academic year marks the 50th year that Fred Irby III taught in Howard University’s Department of…
“I don’t think there’s anything better than seeing kids grow as human beings,” Gaesser said.
Jan 8, 2024 10:09 PM
Somewhere in Curtis Gaesser’s house, one can imagine a room overflowing with the awards he’s received —…
