Mar 28, 2023 11:49 AM
Aardvark Jazz Orchestra: 50 Years, a Special Calling
Mark Harvey is a Boston jazz luminary like no other. He’s long been an important person on the scene as founder and…
Mar 28, 2023 11:49 AM
Mark Harvey is a Boston jazz luminary like no other. He’s long been an important person on the scene as founder and…
Mar 21, 2023 12:24 PM
Keith Jarrett can do more with his right hand than most pianists can with two. As he pulls the protective cloth from…
Mar 21, 2023 12:18 PM
Joe Chambers came to New York this month to record his new Blue Note album. The session yielded nine tracks that, on…
Mar 21, 2023 11:46 AM
For Amos Lee, the Philadelphia-bred singer-songwriter who first broke as the opening act on Norah Jones’ 2004 tour,…
Mar 21, 2023 11:36 AM
According to the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, the musical genre came late to the Far East, and especially to China.…
Mar 14, 2023 11:56 AM
The most famous brothers in jazz are scattered. Wynton lives in Manhattan. Branford settled in North Carolina. Jason…
Mar 14, 2023 11:10 AM
With the release of his debut album, 2021’s acclaimed K(no)w Them, K(no)w Us (Stoney Lane Records), the…
Mar 7, 2023 12:48 PM
When DownBeat caught up with Lakecia Benjamin in November via Zoom, the saxophonist and composer was clad in a cherry…
Mar 7, 2023 12:37 PM
When Julian Lage sat down for this live Blindfold Test at the North Sea Jazz Festival last July, the guitarist/composer…
Mar 7, 2023 11:33 AM
Drummer-entrepreneur Rob Silverman has garnered loads of attention of late for his St. Louis-based label, Autumn Hill…