Jan 2, 2025 10:50 AM
Singer Sofia Jernberg Navigates Disparate Cultures
On Musho (Intakt), her recent duo album with pianist Alexander Hawkins, singer Sofia Jernberg interprets traditional…
“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…
Trombonist Ryan Porter, left, with saxophonist Kamasi Washington at last summer’s Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival.
Jan 2, 2025 10:36 AM
On a warm summer night at the annual Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival, where nearly 18,000 people packed onto the benches…
Wayne Horvitz contributed a seven-night celebration of Butch Morris, Sun Ra and Julius Hemphill during Seattle’s Earshot Jazz Festival.
Jan 2, 2025 10:32 AM
The 36th edition of Seattle’s Earshot Jazz Festival offered a two-track collaboration that harkened back to its…
“We as humans are adapting to machinery and technology that we created,” says Prieto, adding that the results are mixed, at best.
Dec 26, 2024 1:14 PM
Back in the prehistoric era of music, before the internet and digital age, roughly from the late 1940s to the late…
“It was so mysterious and intriguing,” Ian Faquini says of the music of Guinga. From left, Natalie Cressman, Faquini and Guinga.
Dec 26, 2024 1:06 PM
In the past five years, composers Natalie Cressman and Ian Faquini have issued multiple duo releases, unveiling a sound…
“Sassy Awards” winner April May Webb performs at this year’s finals.
Dec 26, 2024 1:02 PM
As part of NJPAC’s TD James Moody Jazz Festival, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark named April…
Charlton Singleton of band Ranky Tanky performed in the The Soraya’s Jazz Club in January.
Dec 26, 2024 12:46 PM
The $125 million Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts on the California State University,…
“Watching people like Max Roach or Elvin Jones and seeing how they utilize the whole drum kit in a very rhythmic and melodic way and how they stretched time — that was a huge inspiration to me,” Hussain said in DownBeat.
Dec 17, 2024 9:58 AM
Tabla master Ustad Zakir Hussain, one of India’s reigning cultural ambassadors and a revered figure worldwide…
“Hope is important, and it always shows up in my music,” Mitchell said.
Dec 17, 2024 9:40 AM
Flutist Nicole Mitchell put new friends through changes for the 2024 album Bamako*Chicago Sound System (FPE), which she…
Martial Solal performing at the Village Vanguard after his 80th birthday in 2007.
Dec 17, 2024 9:33 AM
Martial Solal, whose irrepressible wit and incomparable wizardry at the piano captivated and confounded listeners for…
