Apr 3, 2002 10:06 AM

Astral Project, one of New Orleans’ top modern jazz groups, released its first full-length
recording in three years,…

Apr 2, 2002 9:16 AM

Tickets for four shows at this summer’s 17th Annual Vancouver Jazz Festival, June 21-July 1, have gone on sale. The…

Mar 29, 2002 8:51 AM

From April 8-April 12, the Berklee College of Music Guitar Department will present Guitar Week 2002, an annual series…

Mar 29, 2002 8:50 AM

The 26th Annual Telluride Jazz Celebration, Aug. 2-4, has just released its lineup. This year’s theme is: “A…

Mar 26, 2002 11:59 AM

You might notice something different about DownBeat.com today (besides the fact that we have posted the April issue of…

Mar 26, 2002 11:58 AM

From Aug. 30-Sept. 1, Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Lenox, Mass., will host the…

Mar 26, 2002 11:57 AM

On March 26, singer Cassandra Wilson released Belly Of The Sun, her new album on Blue Note, a collection of tasty blues…

Mar 21, 2002 5:59 AM

BMG’s adult music division, The RCA Victor Group, has signed the contemporary instrumental supergroup Fourplay to the…

Mar 21, 2002 5:57 AM

Guitarist Wayne Krantz, a former sideman with Steely Dan, Michael Brecker, Billy Cobham and others, has scheduled a…

Mar 12, 2002 9:45 AM

From March 19-24, the Jazz Composers Collective will hold its annual jazz festival in New York at the newly reopened…