Feb 28, 2017 10:02 AM

Mardi Gras commemorates many things, but it’s a music lovers’ holiday through and through. As festivities get underway…

Feb 27, 2017 2:45 PM

A new trove of previously unreleased Louis Armstrong recordings will see the light of day thanks to a licensing…

Feb 24, 2017 3:36 PM

One of the more delightful aspects of the vintage jazz revival in New York (and elsewhere) in recent years is the…

Feb 24, 2017 9:46 AM

Three years ago, Grammy Award-nominated saxophonist, composer and arranger Jimmy Greene recorded Beautiful Life, a…

Feb 23, 2017 1:01 PM

Los Angeles is very lucky to count pianist Herbie Hancock and saxophonist Wayne Shorter as residents. Both are American…

Feb 22, 2017 3:48 PM

Born in London and raised in Delhi, India, and Encinitas, California, sitarist/composer Anoushka Shankar is the…

Feb 22, 2017 1:17 PM

One of the many pleasures of a jazz festival is the parade of rhythm sections, and the first four days of this year’s…

Feb 21, 2017 4:20 PM

The indefatigable spirit of Gunther Schuller (1925–2015), preeminent composer, musician, teacher and founder of New…

Feb 21, 2017 1:47 PM

Guitarist Larry Coryell, who died Feb. 19 at age 73 in New York City, first convened his Eleventh House band in 1973,…

Feb 20, 2017 5:16 PM

Acclaimed jazz guitarist Larry Coryell died suddenly in New York City on Feb. 19. He was 73.

His wife, the…