Jul 9, 2024 10:55 AM
Johnny Hoy & the Bluefish: Devoted to the Classics
It’s a typical Wednesday night in January at The Ritz Café in Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard, seven miles…
“I was burning through personnel because it’s a small island, and I wasn’t easy to get along with,” Hoy said of forming a band on Martha’s Vineyard in the late 1970s.
Jul 9, 2024 10:55 AM
It’s a typical Wednesday night in January at The Ritz Café in Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard, seven miles…
From left, BDR’s Cody Davies, Tyreek Jackson and Mike LaBombard. “There’s a long history and precedent for what we do,” says drummer/bandleader Joe Pignato.
Jul 9, 2024 10:50 AM
In a prior lifetime, back in the 1990s, Joe Pignato was a dedicated record company guy, first as the U.S. rep for Kurt…
“To me, it’s not a departure,” says Kenny Garret, right, with Svoy at his side. “My teacher was Miles Davis, so I’ve always been open to all genres of music.”
Jul 2, 2024 2:28 PM
It’s 8:30 in the morning, and Kenny Garrett is walking. He does this most mornings, on a track near his home in Glen…
The Year of Alice initiative, celebrating the life work of Alice Coltrane, runs from 2024 to 2025.
Jul 2, 2024 1:52 PM
The John & Alice Coltrane Home and the Coltrane Family, in partnership with Impulse! Records, Detroit Jazz Festival,…
Soul-jazz tenor icon Houston Person with drummer Sylvia Cuenca at this year’s Healdsburg Jazz Festival.
Jul 2, 2024 1:37 PM
“All killer, no filler” is a good descriptor for Healdsburg Jazz Festival’s 26th anniversary edition, which…
Dave and son Chris Brubeck with broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite in a historic photo from the archive.
Jul 2, 2024 12:46 PM
July 1 was the 65th anniversary of the biggest-selling jazz song of all time, “Take Five,” recorded that day in…
The “Good Trouble” band, from left, Jeff Lederer, Tia Fuller, Matt Wilson, Dawn Clement and Ben Allison.
Jun 25, 2024 12:52 PM
Mid-morning on the first Wednesday of April, Matt Wilson was making his weekly 75-minute drive from Baldwin, New York,…
Etienne Charles and his Creole Orchestra drew liberally on sources beyond the Trinidad native’s comfort zone.
Jun 25, 2024 12:42 PM
On Oct. 8, 2022, Etienne Charles reopened Lincoln Center’s newly renovated David Geffen Hall with San Juan Hill, a…
With her new crowdfunded release From Here, Allgood is hitting the big leagues.
Jun 25, 2024 12:09 PM
Jazz singers are a rarified breed. Only a handful actually make it and sustain a career with any degree of national or…
More than 250 artists will be featured over the course of this summer’s Montclair Jazz Festival.
Jun 25, 2024 12:00 PM
Jazz House Kids has announced the artist lineup and the slate of events for the summer-long 15th Anniversary of the…
