Mar 22, 2016 2:27 PM
Miles & Chet on the Silver Screen
Fans of jazz trumpet and cinema will have plenty to chew on in the coming weeks as two of the most iconic figures in…
Ethan Hawke stars as Chet Baker in the film Born to be Blue.
Mar 22, 2016 2:27 PM
Fans of jazz trumpet and cinema will have plenty to chew on in the coming weeks as two of the most iconic figures in…
Bassist Christian McBride will be the next artistic director of the Newport Jazz Festival
Mar 22, 2016 2:19 PM
Jazz impresario George Wein, founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, is stepping down from his directorial role after 62…
René Marie will release Sound Of Red on Motéma Music on May 13.
Mar 22, 2016 2:15 PM
Vocalist René Marie, a Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist with a style firmly rooted in the blues, will add another album…
Milt Jackson is one of the many jazz icons Robert James Campbell photographed during his career.
Mar 22, 2016 2:10 PM
In 2002, Jessica Ferber—then a University of Vermont grad working in a Burlington photo studio during the day and…
Victor Ryan Robertson (left) Kenneth Kellogg and Mark Hernandez in the production of Terence Blanchard’s Champion: An Opera In Jazz
Mar 22, 2016 2:02 PM
Trumpeter Terence Blanchard’s ambitious Champion: An Opera in Jazz, about the late bisexual boxer Emile Griffith, had…
Sarah Elizabeth Charles (left) sings a duet with high school student Hannah Coleman during a performance at the Harlem Stage Gatehouse in New York on Feb. 24.
Mar 22, 2016 1:52 PM
Forty-five minutes before showtime, fans were already lined up for vocalist Sarah Elizabeth Charles’s Neighborhood…
The U.S. Postal Service will honor jazz vocalist Sarah Vaughan (1924–’90) with a commemorative Forever Stamp in a ceremony in Newark, New Jersey, on March 29.
Mar 22, 2016 1:46 PM
Vocalist Sarah “Sassy” Vaughan will return to the spotlight yet again, thanks to a concert album and a…
The Wet Ink Ensemble payed tribute to avant-garde reedist Anthony Braxton on Jan. 20 at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, New York.
Mar 22, 2016 1:43 PM
How do you solve the age-old problem of the classical/jazz divide? Or for that matter, how do you approach the more…
Prolific saxophonist Anthony Braxton is the subject three box sets due out April 1.
Mar 22, 2016 1:39 PM
Last year was a busy one for the irrepressible Anthony Braxton. The saxophonist’s activities included a University of…
Ryan Truesdell (right) conducts the Gil Evans Project featuring Donny McCaslin (left) during the Elmhurst College Jazz Festival in Elmhurst, Illinois, on Feb. 26.
Mar 22, 2016 1:34 PM
For a small city, Elmhurst, Illinois, can accommodate some big jazz talent. That was certainly the case on Feb. 26,…
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