​Albert “Tootie” Heath with friends en route to a live Blindfold Test at New York University in spring of 2018. From left: Ashley Kahn, Russell Hall, Heath, Jimmy Cobb and Emmet Cohen.

​Swedish-born bassist Palle Danielsson (1946–2024) played with a deep, resonant and endlessly warm tone.

The massive European jazz trade show jazzahead! attracted 14,490 attendees for 40 concert showcases and Clubnight performances that took place April 11–13 in Bremen, Germany.

“I had total confidence and trust that they were brilliant musicians and would come up with something amazing, which they did,” Harris said of his Blackout band members after their AI-enriched performance at Harlem’s Victoria Theater on Feb. 18.

“Maybe now after all these years I’m finally becoming the musician that I wanted to be,” says Bromberg.

“It has a twang, but it’s not country,” Gardner says of the music from On The Trail With The Lonesome Pines. “And it’s not exactly jazz, but I think it works best when jazz musicians come at it.”

“If I just sit down and try to play a song all by myself, just tapping my foot, that’s going to be the best thing, because that’s the most honest and most true thing,” says Mulherkar in discussing his debut solo album.

On Shadow, Wright has taken the words of vocalist Nina Simone to heart — that an artist must reflect her times.

Omar Sosa

​The Century Room in downtown Tucson, Arizona, was born in 2021.