Jun 20, 2019 10:02 AM
Sprawling Variety at DC Jazz Festival
The DC Jazz Festival might have its weak points, but musical variety is not one of them.
The festival’s annual…
Jun 20, 2019 10:02 AM
The DC Jazz Festival might have its weak points, but musical variety is not one of them.
The festival’s annual…
Jun 19, 2019 9:00 AM
According to Nielsen Soundscan, 16.8 million LPs were sold last year, up from 14.6 million the year before, and marking…
Jun 18, 2019 9:00 AM
For four decades, Chicago pianist Patricia Barber has been quietly, but steadily, creating her own unique brand of…
Jun 18, 2019 9:00 AM
As label president Don Was told DownBeat in a recent phone interview from his office in the Capitol Records Building in…
Jun 17, 2019 10:12 AM
Drummer Adonis Rose, a founding member of the Grammy-winning New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, had his work cut out for him…
Jun 17, 2019 9:00 AM
On the final evening of a four-night run as resident artistic director at San Francisco’s SFJAZZ at the end of May,…
Jun 14, 2019 2:48 PM
For 50 years, the Jazz Institute of Chicago has helped spark the city’s innovative music scene. And to celebrate that…
Jun 14, 2019 2:13 PM
When mandolinist Sam Bush had to bow out of Béla Fleck’s two-hour inaugural Friends and Family show at Red Rocks on…
Jun 14, 2019 9:15 AM
For his new album, George Benson turned to the past. On Walking To New Orleans (Provogue), the jazz guitarist/singer…
Jun 13, 2019 2:44 PM
The Moers Festival started in 1971, and its roots reach deep into the vortex of free improvisation. That’s still the…
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