Apr 12, 2018 2:27 PM
Detroit Jazz Festival Announces 2018 Lineup
The Detroit Jazz Festival on Wednesday announced its lineup for the 2018 installment of the event, which runs Aug.…
Pianist Chick Corea is the artist-in-residence for the 39th annual Detroit Jazz Festival.
Apr 12, 2018 2:27 PM
The Detroit Jazz Festival on Wednesday announced its lineup for the 2018 installment of the event, which runs Aug.…
When visiting Cerreto Sannita, the village in Italy where his grandfather grew up, guitarist Al Di Meola was greeted with a celebratory dinner in his honor.
Apr 12, 2018 10:51 AM
As he approaches his 64th birthday in July, guitarist Al Di Meola remains a road warrior.
Last fall, he went out…
On her upcoming album, Kait Dunton makes use of a variety of keyboards and effects.
Apr 11, 2018 10:00 AM
Onetime Snarky Puppy member, Kait Dunton is set to issue trioKAIT 2 on May 11 through Real & Imagined Music.
The…
Tutu Puoane had to be convinced to take on We Have A Dream, a project on which she interprets socially conscious compositions alongside the Brussels Jazz Orchestra.
Apr 10, 2018 6:07 PM
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was not just an American figure, he was an international hero.
His burning advocacy for…
Hardanger fiddler Nils Økland adds a special brand of minimalism to his indigenous Norwegian instrument while improvising as a member of the trio 1982.
Apr 10, 2018 2:48 PM
Versatile Danish drummer Kresten Osgood was getting busy during a solo gig at the Vossa Jazz Festival, deploying his…
Mike Casey’s Stay Surprising: Live At The Side Door will be posted piecemeal through November, when the album is set for released.
Apr 10, 2018 12:00 PM
Stay Surprising: Live At The Side Door, which is set for a November release, is saxophonist Mike Casey’s follow-up…
Pianist Yelena Eckemoff said her “task as a composer is to provide comprehensive music material to musicians who can both read and improvise.”
Apr 10, 2018 9:16 AM
Yelena Eckemoff is a Russia-born pianist whose idiosyncratic jazz albums speak to a classical sensibility, a taste for…
After taking part in a discussion on gender and jazz, pianist Monika Herzig’s SHEroes ensemble performed April 4 at The New School in New York.
Apr 9, 2018 9:48 AM
“You play good, for a girl.”
Every instrumentalist on the “Jazz and Gender” panel discussion at The New…
Cecil Taylor (1929–2018)
Apr 6, 2018 9:06 AM
Avant-garde pianist Cecil Taylor has died at the age of 89, according to NPR.
Taylor, a National Endowment for the…
Charles Lloyd & The Marvels are set to play the 40th installment of The Playboy Jazz Festival at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl in June.
Apr 5, 2018 4:05 PM
The Playboy Jazz Festival heads into its 40th year with comedian George Lopez serving as MC.
Held at Los Angeles’…
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