May 9, 2022 2:09 PM
Bill O’Connell’s Hope for Change
Best known as an inspired hybridizer of modernist jazz and Afrodiasporic idioms as an improviser and composer, Bill…
O’Connell said, “Jazz combined the sophistication I was looking for in music with the earth and the swing. I was determined to pursue it and develop myself as a jazz pianist.”
May 9, 2022 2:09 PM
Best known as an inspired hybridizer of modernist jazz and Afrodiasporic idioms as an improviser and composer, Bill…
Bassist-composer Ron Carter turns 85 on May 4.
May 3, 2022 12:38 PM
On May 10, the iconic bassist-composer Ron Carter will be fêted in an 85th birthday celebration at Carnegie Hall. With…
Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up In My Bones is only the second work by a Black composer to be featured at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
May 3, 2022 11:59 AM
If the goal of the Lyric Opera of Chicago was to attract a more diverse crowd by programming jazz composer/trumpeter…
The collective Snarky Puppy will perform music from their upcoming album during this year’s GroundUP Music Festival.
May 3, 2022 11:50 AM
The fifth annual GroundUP Music Festival, set to take place May 6–8 at the North Beach Bandshell in Miami Beach,…
Mats Gustafsson is scheduled to perform at the Festival du Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, which is set to resume operations May 18–22 in an almost back-to-normal fashion.
May 3, 2022 11:45 AM
Like virtually every other jazz festival in the world, the venerable, adventure-leaning FIMAV festival in…
Trombonist Craig Harris of New York is among this year’s class of JJA Jazz Heroes.
May 3, 2022 11:39 AM
The Jazz Journalists Association has announced its 2022 class of Jazz Heroes — 28 activists and advocates from 26…
Charles Lloyd and the Marvels performing at Jazz Middelheim in Belgium.
Apr 28, 2022 5:42 PM
This year’s summer jazz festival season is cause for special, and excessive, celebration. The entire jazz ecosystem…
Quinence Lynell, left, and Dee Dee Bridgewater perform at SummerStage in New York.
Apr 28, 2022 5:00 PM
It’s been awhile since many jazz events were allowed to go live, unhindered by the threat of pandemic-induced…
Matt Burchard, literally, takes the music to the people at the Vail Jazz Festival.
Apr 28, 2022 4:58 PM
With 2020 mostly a lost year and 2021 largely transitional, jazz festivals held west of the mighty Mississippi River…
John Zorn’s Masada performing at Jazz em Agosto in Lisbon.
Apr 28, 2022 4:56 PM
In the summer of 2022, our jazz festivals will be free to run without nearly as many of the social distancing…
