Oct 21, 2025 11:21 AM
2026 Next Jazz Legacy Cohort Applications Now Open
New Music USA and the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice have announced the opening of applications for the…
Next Jazz Legacy is a national apprenticeship and mentorship program designed to elevate emerging jazz improvisers.
Oct 21, 2025 11:21 AM
New Music USA and the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice have announced the opening of applications for the…
Craig Taborn joins recent jazz-musician MacArthur Fellows Tomeka Reid (2022), Cécile McLorin Salvant (2020), Mary Halvorson (2019) and Tyshawn Sorey (2017).
Oct 14, 2025 2:34 PM
Pianist, keyboardist and composer Craig Taborn has received many accolades over his 30-plus-year career, but none quite…
“I try to be the same person on stage that I am always. … It’s like why I said I’ve written my name the same way I’ve always had since the sixth grade,” says Isaiah J. Thompson.
Oct 14, 2025 2:29 PM
Pianist Isaiah J. Thompson is on the road, answering a video call from his hotel room in Victoria, a quaint city on…
Bach improvisers Alan Ferber (left), Jody Redhage Ferber and Mark Ferber.
Oct 14, 2025 2:23 PM
Confluence turns out to be a fatefully apt and multilayered concept and title for the new album released by the Ferbers…
Becca Stevens applied her pellucid soprano to the piercingly intelligent, nakedly personal lyrics of “Now Feels Bigger Than The Past,” “Wild Eyes Open” and “Rainbow Connection” from her 2024 solo album Maple To Paper (GroundUp).
Oct 14, 2025 2:15 PM
On Oct. 4, M³, as the Mutual Mentorship for Musicians initiative is known, held its fifth annual festival at Roulette…
D’Angelo achieved commercial and critical success experimenting with a fusion of jazz, funk, soul, R&B and hip-hop.
Oct 14, 2025 1:47 PM
D’Angelo, a Grammy-winning R&B and neo-soul singer, guitarist and pianist who exerted a profound influence on 21st…
Jim McNeely’s singular body of work had a profound and lasting influence on many of today’s top jazz composers in the U.S. and in Europe.
Oct 7, 2025 3:40 PM
Pianist Jim McNeely, one of the most distinguished large ensemble jazz composers of his generation, died Sept. 26 at…
Nnenna Freelon was heard at the peak of her powers during this year’s Monterey Jazz Festival.
Oct 7, 2025 11:31 AM
Arguably the top jazz festival taking place on the West Coast and certainly one of the music’s major annual events,…
Hamid Drake takes to the frame drum at Chicago’s Logan Center during this year’s Hyde Park Jazz Festival.
Oct 7, 2025 11:23 AM
In May, Hyde Park Jazz Festival Executive and Artistic Director Kate Dumbleton learned she’d lost a $30,000 grant…
Schubert NOW performs a showcase concert at jazzahead! 2025.
Oct 7, 2025 10:16 AM
Bands can apply until Oct. 8 for one of the 38 coveted concert slots at jazzahead!, the world’s largest jazz…
