Oct 21, 2025 11:54 AM
Sullivan Fortner Wins Gilmore Larry J. Bell Jazz Artist Award
Midway through a trio tour last March en route to Atlanta for a concert in Spivey Hall, pianist Sullivan Fortner took a…
Sullivan Fortner (left), Tyler Bullock and Esteban Castro, honorees of the inaugural Gilmore Larry J. Bell Jazz Artist Awards.
Oct 21, 2025 11:54 AM
Midway through a trio tour last March en route to Atlanta for a concert in Spivey Hall, pianist Sullivan Fortner took a…
“That is Heaven right here on Earth,” said vocalist Faye Carol of Ella Fitzgerald with Duke Ellington.
Oct 21, 2025 11:41 AM
A San Francisco Bay Area hero for many decades, singer-educator Faye Carol has interpreted songs culled from numerous…
Trumpeters Ashlin Parker (left), Freddie Hendrix, Jon Faddis, Corey Wilkes and Maurice Brown perform with pianist Matthew Fries, bassist Carlo De Rosa and drummer Keith Hall during the Oct. 11 summit.
Oct 21, 2025 11:33 AM
It’s been over seven years since the passing of the now-revered trumpeter Roy Hargrove. The composing bandleader had…
“I’m self-taught, an autodidact as they call it,” said composer Gregg Hill.
Oct 21, 2025 11:24 AM
At a recent performance at the Dirty Dog Jazz Cafe in the Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, bassist Rodney…
Next Jazz Legacy is a national apprenticeship and mentorship program designed to elevate emerging jazz improvisers.
Oct 21, 2025 11:21 AM
New Music USA and the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice have announced the opening of applications for the…
Craig Taborn joins recent jazz-musician MacArthur Fellows Tomeka Reid (2022), Cécile McLorin Salvant (2020), Mary Halvorson (2019) and Tyshawn Sorey (2017).
Oct 14, 2025 2:34 PM
Pianist, keyboardist and composer Craig Taborn has received many accolades over his 30-plus-year career, but none quite…
“I try to be the same person on stage that I am always. … It’s like why I said I’ve written my name the same way I’ve always had since the sixth grade,” says Isaiah J. Thompson.
Oct 14, 2025 2:29 PM
Pianist Isaiah J. Thompson is on the road, answering a video call from his hotel room in Victoria, a quaint city on…
Bach improvisers Alan Ferber (left), Jody Redhage Ferber and Mark Ferber.
Oct 14, 2025 2:23 PM
Confluence turns out to be a fatefully apt and multilayered concept and title for the new album released by the Ferbers…
Becca Stevens applied her pellucid soprano to the piercingly intelligent, nakedly personal lyrics of “Now Feels Bigger Than The Past,” “Wild Eyes Open” and “Rainbow Connection” from her 2024 solo album Maple To Paper (GroundUp).
Oct 14, 2025 2:15 PM
On Oct. 4, M³, as the Mutual Mentorship for Musicians initiative is known, held its fifth annual festival at Roulette…
D’Angelo achieved commercial and critical success experimenting with a fusion of jazz, funk, soul, R&B and hip-hop.
Oct 14, 2025 1:47 PM
D’Angelo, a Grammy-winning R&B and neo-soul singer, guitarist and pianist who exerted a profound influence on 21st…
