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James Brandon Lewis: The Storyteller
“I’m constantly searching and pushing,” New York-based saxophonist and composer James Brandon Lewis says. “I…
Jul 5, 2023 2:55 PM
“I’m constantly searching and pushing,” New York-based saxophonist and composer James Brandon Lewis says. “I…
Jul 5, 2023 2:49 PM
Torrential rain greeted DownBeat’s arrival in Montreal on June 29, the first full day of the 43rd edition of the…
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There are few better causes than the one undertaken by the Jazz Foundation of America, the fabled organization that…
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It was 10 years ago that Israeli-born pianist Omer Klein began exploring his intimate, conversational chemistry with…
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Peter Brötzmann, a German saxophonist and clarinetist whose music charted a provocative, uncompromising new course for…
Jun 27, 2023 12:44 PM
Wayne Escoffery sits comfortably in a soft chair in a hotel room in Denver. He is traveling once again with the Mingus…
Jun 27, 2023 12:41 PM
The Ravinia Steans Music Institute, based in Highland Park, Illinois, has been committed to cross-pollinating the…
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Rickie Lee Jones has a credo that she’s lived by all her life: shouting her name out while zigzagging through musical…