Jul 2, 2018 9:00 AM
Rain Can’t Wash Out Saratoga Jazz Fest
What makes the lawns of Saratoga Springs so green and lush, its sturdy trees so tall? That would be rain. What has made…
Jul 2, 2018 9:00 AM
What makes the lawns of Saratoga Springs so green and lush, its sturdy trees so tall? That would be rain. What has made…
Ry Cooder will be on tour this summer promoting his new album, The Prodigal Son.
Jul 2, 2018 9:00 AM
As a follow-up to 2012’s Election Special (Nonesuch)—a biting protest album that critiqued right-wing…
Drummer Sasha Mashin recently issued his leader debut on the newly founded Rainy Days Records.
Jun 29, 2018 9:00 AM
The Moscow jazz scene marks its 95th anniversary this year and currently is potent enough to sustain four jazz clubs…
South African bassist and composer Benjamin Jephta recently issued The Evolution Of An Undefined (Self Release), a follow-up to his 2015 debut as a leader.
Jun 28, 2018 9:00 AM
“I grew up in the church. My dad was not a pastor, but he played a vital role there; I guess you can say that he was…
Ben Paterson, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, receives a first-place prize of $25,000, at the inaugural Ellis Marsalis International Jazz Piano Competition, which was held at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, on June 22 and 23. With the pianist is Jason Marsalis (left), Ellis Marsalis and the Nu Jazz Agency’s Jerald Miller.
Jun 27, 2018 12:15 PM
Ben Paterson, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the winner of the inaugural Ellis Marsalis International Jazz Piano…
Geri Allen in 1979
Jun 27, 2018 9:00 AM
A year after pianist, composer, bandleader and teacher Geri Allen died of cancer on June 27, 2017, innumerable tributes…
On Kuba Więcek’s debut, Another Raindrop, listeners can find influences as far flung as the trip-hop feel of Massive Attack and folkloric dance rhythms.
Jun 27, 2018 8:59 AM
In May 2015, Warner Music Group acquired the massive catalog of Polskie Nagrania, the old state-run Polish label of the…
Pianist Monica Dominique is featured on a box set that anthologizes Swedish jazz between 1970 and 1979.
Jun 26, 2018 9:00 AM
Two decades ago, the Swedish state-run label Caprice Records launched a remarkably inclusive series intended to…
Pianist Vijay Iyer topped two categories in the DownBeat Critics Poll: Jazz Artist and Jazz Group (for the Vijay Iyer Sextet).
Jun 25, 2018 10:24 PM
Pianist Vijay Iyer, singer-songwriter Cécile McLorin Salvant, flutist Nicole Mitchell, trumpeter Amir ElSaffar,…
Pharoah Sanders performs June 10 at City Winery during the DC Jazz Festival in Washington, D.C.
Jun 25, 2018 9:00 AM
Since its founding in 2005, the DC Jazz Festival has pursued an expansive vision: not just in terms of musical styles,…
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