Oct 22, 2019 9:00 AM
ELEW Interprets Kurt Rosenwinkel on ‘Cubism’
In 2005, Eric Lewis dropped off the straightahead jazz scene to reinvent himself. Adopting the moniker ELEW and…
Pianist ELEW and guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel worked together on the solo piano album Cubism.
Oct 22, 2019 9:00 AM
In 2005, Eric Lewis dropped off the straightahead jazz scene to reinvent himself. Adopting the moniker ELEW and…
Wayne Shorter (shown here in a scene from the documentary Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes) won three categories in the 2019 DownBeat Readers Poll: Jazz Artist, Jazz Album (for Emanon) and Soprano Saxophone.
Oct 21, 2019 5:36 PM
DownBeat is proud to announce the results of its 84th Annual Readers Poll.
Wayne Shorter is a huge winner in…
Miguel Zenón steered past his most recent release, a lovely tribute to the work of Ismael Rivera, and headed right into muscular post-bop territory during the Angrajazz festival, which ran Oct 3-5 on Terceira Island in the Azores.
Oct 21, 2019 11:21 AM
The small consortium behind Angrajazz—the jazz festival that has been taking place on Terceira Island in the Azores…
The sound of pianist Marilyn Crispell changed following a trip to a festival in Stockholm: “I heard them playing stuff that really, really touched me.”
Oct 21, 2019 11:05 AM
In 1985, writer Graham Lock joined saxophonist Anthony Braxton and his band on a tour of England, making stops in…
Mark Kavuma’s sophomore album, The Banger Factory, places him at the center of London’s rapidly expanding jazz scene.
Oct 21, 2019 9:31 AM
Great art can emerge from any residency. A staple of jazz through the decades—from Ornette Coleman’s 1959 series at…
New York brass band Lucky Chops recently released its full-length debut.
Oct 18, 2019 9:23 AM
Maybe you’ve run into them shedding at a New York subway stop.
Brass band Lucky Chops recently issued its…
Nat “King” Cole sat at the crossroads of jazz and pop.
Oct 18, 2019 9:18 AM
It’s amazing how much Nat “King” Cole material we have to forgive in order to find the man we revere in this, the…
Bassist Nick Dunston is set to issue his debut as a leader, Atlantic Extraction, Nov. 1 through Out of Your Head Records.
Oct 17, 2019 9:25 AM
Bassist Nick Dunston’s name just keeps cropping up.
If you didn’t catch him on Amirtha Kidambi’s release with…
Guitarist Charlie Apicella says his band gets “right to the point, just like Jack McDuff” on Groove Machine.
Oct 17, 2019 9:22 AM
In many ways, guitarist Charlie Apicella has devoted himself to a kind of historical reenactment. On all of his…
Sarah Vaughan (1924-1990)
Oct 16, 2019 10:18 AM
The New Jersey Performing Arts Center on Tuesday announced the five finalists in the 8th Annual Sarah Vaughan…
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