Oct 26, 2021 11:28 AM
Orenda Records Highlights Angel City Fest
Entering its 13th year, the Angel City Jazz Festival has become a regular October institution in Los Angeles, a…
Daniel Rosenboom, founder of Orenda Records, performs at the Angel City Jazz Festival.
Oct 26, 2021 11:28 AM
Entering its 13th year, the Angel City Jazz Festival has become a regular October institution in Los Angeles, a…
Gerald Clayton directs the Monterey Next Generation Jazz Orchestra.
Oct 19, 2021 10:39 AM
Though reduced to just a third of its usual capacity, the 64th Monterey Jazz Festival (Sept. 24–26) somehow pushed…
Jamaaladeen Tacuma, one of 52 grant recipients, received $40,000 to return to his hometown in North Carolina and create a music work space .
Oct 19, 2021 10:35 AM
South Arts, a nonprofit regional arts organization, awarded $2 million in grants in October to support jazz musicians…
Anthony Braxton led two evenings of music during Skaņu Mežs in Latvia.
Oct 19, 2021 10:30 AM
Anthony Braxton once told author Graham Lock that he was less interested in playing one good gig than in establishing…
Oct 19, 2021 10:25 AM
The 4th Annual Philadelphia Jazz Summit, with a theme of “awakening,” plans two days of gathering the jazz industry…
Professor Longhair, left, with Alligator Records founder Bruce Iglauer in 1978.
Oct 11, 2021 12:07 PM
Farsighted and unsentimental, Bruce Iglauer has spent five decades elevating Chicago-based Alligator Records above…
Pianist Nik Bärtsch performs at Festival Jazzkaar.
Oct 11, 2021 11:45 AM
The last time that Swiss pianist Nik Bärtsch appeared at Festival Jazzkaar in 2018, half of his four-piece band called…
Kirke Kardja performs as a member of the Karja-Renard-Wandinger Trio at EJN.
Oct 11, 2021 11:30 AM
Perhaps no musical tradition is more invested in direct interaction and spontaneous give-and-take than jazz, practices…
Kenny Garrett
Oct 7, 2021 5:17 PM
“Joe Hen’s Waltz” is alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett’s contribution to Relief, an album to benefit the Jazz…
The great jazz shrine of The Village Vanguard in New York reopened in September.
Oct 5, 2021 12:48 PM
The tables were slightly fewer in number. The air filtration system was new. But when the Village Vanguard reopened in…
