Apr 27, 2023 10:44 AM
Healdsburg’s Artist-First Vision at 25
The ideal jazz festival showcases its locale while presenting thoughtfully conceived concerts and events. Since 1999,…
Locale and creative programming have become touch points of the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, celebrating its 25th anniversary.
Apr 27, 2023 10:44 AM
The ideal jazz festival showcases its locale while presenting thoughtfully conceived concerts and events. Since 1999,…
“I knew Dizzy’s music inside and out,” Cassidy said about playing in the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band. “That’s what I grew up chasing.”
Apr 25, 2023 12:26 PM
There’s a zen-like drive to alto saxophonist Sharel Cassity that’s undeniable — über calm on the exterior, but…
Apr 18, 2023 9:41 AM
Record Store Day hits April 22, so we deliver a glimpse at some of the vinyl dropping in and around that blessed…
Apr 18, 2023 9:30 AM
One of the most-anticipated reissue releases of the year is Go West!, a three-LP opus exploring saxophone colossus…
Apr 18, 2023 9:22 AM
While being released in a variety of formats, this magnum opus of bop from Craft Recordings is truly one for vinyl…
Apr 18, 2023 9:18 AM
ECM continues to issue new albums on vinyl, with the latest batch of LPs released in March.
Pianist Bobo Stenson’s…
Apr 18, 2023 8:48 AM
Verve/UMe’s Acoustic Sounds Series continues to deliver with a trio of great new albums and plenty more to come.
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“Perhaps that’s a key to what makes me tick — a very strong curiosity, which makes me a perpetual fanboy of whatever I’m discovering,” Mehldau says.
Apr 11, 2023 10:47 AM
At the tail end of 2022, Brad Mehldau took advantage of a New York sojourn to play piano with old friends at Smalls…
“I could be a little bit indulgent and not worry,” Kauflin said about recording a live album.
Apr 11, 2023 10:42 AM
Since appearing in the moving 2014 documentary Keep On Keepin’ On, about his relationship with trumpet legend Clark…
Jordi Pujol has made it happen, little by little, for the past 40 years at Fresh Sound New Talent.
Apr 11, 2023 10:33 AM
Fresh Sound New Talent is enjoying a pair of impressive anniversary celebrations. The original Fresh Sound label turns…