Jun 19, 2019 9:00 AM
A Vinyl Renaissance
According to Nielsen Soundscan, 16.8 million LPs were sold last year, up from 14.6 million the year before, and marking…
Smashed Plastic Record Pressings’ John Lombardo (left), Steve Polutnik and Andy Weber
Jun 19, 2019 9:00 AM
According to Nielsen Soundscan, 16.8 million LPs were sold last year, up from 14.6 million the year before, and marking…
Chicago pianist Patricia Barber has issued her first new recording in six years, Higher.
Jun 18, 2019 9:00 AM
For four decades, Chicago pianist Patricia Barber has been quietly, but steadily, creating her own unique brand of…
Alfred Lion (left), Dexter Gordon and Francis Wolff
Jun 18, 2019 9:00 AM
As label president Don Was told DownBeat in a recent phone interview from his office in the Capitol Records Building in…
Drummer Adonis Rose has big plans for the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra’s next chapter.
Jun 17, 2019 10:12 AM
Drummer Adonis Rose, a founding member of the Grammy-winning New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, had his work cut out for him…
Bassist and composer Marcus Shelby says his career has been shaped by performers and institutions in the Bay Area.
Jun 17, 2019 9:00 AM
On the final evening of a four-night run as resident artistic director at San Francisco’s SFJAZZ at the end of May,…
Nicole Mitchell will take part in a virtual performance as part of the Jazz Institute of Chicago’s Birthday Bash, which runs June 28-30.
Jun 14, 2019 2:48 PM
For 50 years, the Jazz Institute of Chicago has helped spark the city’s innovative music scene. And to celebrate that…
Howard Levy (left), Victor Wooten, Jeff Coffin, Abigail Washburn, Béla Fleck, Jerry Douglas and Roy “Future Man” Wooten onstage at Red Rocks.
Jun 14, 2019 2:13 PM
When mandolinist Sam Bush had to bow out of Béla Fleck’s two-hour inaugural Friends and Family show at Red Rocks on…
George Benson, shown here at the 2016 Detroit Jazz Festival, performs songs written by Fats Domino and Chuck Berry on his new album.
Jun 14, 2019 9:15 AM
For his new album, George Benson turned to the past. On Walking To New Orleans (Provogue), the jazz guitarist/singer…
Tom Zé was part of a Brazilian contingent at the Moers Festival—which ran June 7-10 in Moers, Germany—that also included Clube Da Encruza, Sambanzo and Absimu Curtu.
Jun 13, 2019 2:44 PM
The Moers Festival started in 1971, and its roots reach deep into the vortex of free improvisation. That’s still the…
The development of Star People Nation—the first album in which Theo Croker has sole producer credit—involved an 18-month journey to both U.S. coasts and multiple recording studios, where he played auxiliary keyboards and synths, crafted electronic and acoustic beats, incorporated samples and wrote lyrics to be sung by himself and special guests.
Jun 13, 2019 9:00 AM
It’s a Wednesday night, and a capacity crowd has filled Mr. Musichead, a spacious gallery on The Sunset Strip in…
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