Aug 23, 2022 1:21 PM
Thana Alexa’s Long Game
In 2018, Thana Alexa began booking a modest tour for ONA, the self-produced, self-released record that would earn a…
Aug 23, 2022 1:21 PM
In 2018, Thana Alexa began booking a modest tour for ONA, the self-produced, self-released record that would earn a…
Aug 23, 2022 1:06 PM
The DownBeat staff had to remove the name of a favorite contributor from the magazine’s masthead this month. Michael…
Aug 23, 2022 12:56 PM
JoVia Armstrong specializes in creating sonic universes. That ingenuity goes beyond her gifts as a drummer,…
Aug 23, 2022 12:12 PM
Ernest Khabeer Dawkins, who’ll be 69 in November, has an intrepid personality and an acute gaze. His middle name,…
Aug 23, 2022 12:05 PM
While Manhattan was in the throes of the COVID-19 shutdown during 2020, renowned photographer, recording engineer,…
Aug 16, 2022 12:24 PM
The drive up to the Blue Note Jazz Fest Napa on the last weekend of July, through winding roads and sunbaked hills, was…
Aug 16, 2022 12:11 PM
The pandemic not only shut down clubs, concert halls and festivals, but tours ground to a halt and the urge to travel…
Aug 16, 2022 12:04 PM
Jazz Festival Saalfelden, the revered Austrian event that occurs each summer in the titular locale nestled within the…
Aug 16, 2022 11:52 AM
The writing had been on the wall for weeks, maybe years. Then, 80 years ago this August, Jimmy Petrillo lowered the…
Aug 16, 2022 11:00 AM
His left hand on the bass, Christian McBride spoke with playful conviction: “You’re out of your mind.” Norah…