May 23, 2023 12:11 PM
Hancock Institute Piano Competition Finals To Happen Oct. 14–15
Applications for the 2023 Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz International Competition are due by July 31, with a finals…
Applications for the 2023 competition are due July 31. This year’s event will focus on the piano.
May 23, 2023 12:11 PM
Applications for the 2023 Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz International Competition are due by July 31, with a finals…
“When I first emerged on the scene, I was dealing with working with a certain trumpet player who shall remain nameless,” Reed said. “It was very much an indoctrinating, dogmatic point of view, but it was all I knew.”
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As a piano-playing prodigy, Philadelphia native Eric Reed performed gospel music in his father’s church at age 5. By…
“For me, the jazz tradition has worked most consciously and seriously with the idea of freedom in music,” Bärtsch said.
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Even before COVID-19 made it problematic for his popular Ronin and Mobile ensembles to tour, Nik Bärtsch and his ECM…
Henry Threadgill set a high bar for collective creation in the service of an individual identity
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Seated front-row center, Henry Threadgill was visibly grooving to Very Very Circus — an eminently reasonable response…
At 65, Branker feels he is just coming into his own as a composer.
May 16, 2023 2:21 PM
While the trajectory of a jazz musician’s career often follows a somewhat logical arc, others take more complex and…
May 16, 2023 2:12 PM
Drummer and bandleader Chick Webb is barely remembered today. If he is known at all, it’s likely because he’s the…
“Remember to be a warrior, not a worrier,” Shorter said, 10 days prior to his passing on March 2.
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Sadly, the formative giants of jazz are passing the torch and joining the ancestors. But such cliché and dwelling on…
Wayne Shorter: 1933–2023
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By the time the so-called riots of 1967 engulfed Wayne Shorter’s native Newark, New Jersey, the saxophonist had…
“I got chills,” Patricia Brennan said while listening to the music of Chris Dingman.
May 9, 2023 11:48 AM
Having established herself as a master practitioner of extended techniques and electronic effects on vibraphone and…
“I wanted Kurt [Rosenwinkel] to kill it and he did,” saxophonist Jim Snidero says of the title track from Far Far Away.
May 9, 2023 11:43 AM
Alto saxophonist Jim Snidero’s latest date, Far Far Away, stands as a career milestone. He’s reached the plateau of…
