May 30, 2023 12:44 PM
End of an Avant-Festival Era in Victoriaville
For nearly four decades, seekers of full-service avant-garde festivals in North America have been drawn to the…
Outgoing FIMAV founding director Michel Levasseur speaks during a press conference at this year’s festival.
May 30, 2023 12:44 PM
For nearly four decades, seekers of full-service avant-garde festivals in North America have been drawn to the…
Edward “Kidd” Jordan
May 30, 2023 11:41 AM
The jazz world lost three of its most impassioned and dedicated practitioners in early April of this year. Here, we…
“I guess that’s my personality: On the outside I’m very mellow, but, inside, my brain is going 100 miles a minute,” says Scott.
May 23, 2023 12:58 PM
Kendrick Scott loves harmony at least as much as he loves rhythm, possibly more. “To me, one of the most beautiful…
Wong interviews other guitarists he admires on his Wong Notes podcast.
May 23, 2023 12:52 PM
A modern day practitioner of the “chanking” rhythm guitar method developed by James Brown sideman Jimmy Nolen —…
Ingrid Laubrock, left, premieres “Lilith” at jazzahead! 2023 with band member David Adewumi on trumpet.
May 23, 2023 12:43 PM
Jazzahead!, a refreshingly hybrid trade fair and artistic showcase held annually at the exhibition center in Bremen,…
Mutual Mentorship for Musicians will honor pianist/composer/educator Michele Rosewoman on June 13.
May 23, 2023 12:31 PM
When the COVID-19 lockdown began in March 2020, musicians Jen Shyu and Sara Serpa co-founded Mutual Mentorship for…
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.”
May 16, 2023 3:15 PM
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.
May 16, 2023 3:00 PM
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
May 16, 2023 2:46 PM
Seated front-row center, Henry Threadgill was visibly grooving to Very Very Circus — an eminently reasonable response…
