Jan 17, 2023 2:15 PM
Blindfold Test: Jason Marsalis
Drummer/vibraphonist Jason Marsalis, in town with the New Orleans Groovemasters, took time for a listening session and…
“Often, the vibraphone can create this abstract, mellow mood,” says Marsalis, shown here with journalist Michael Jackson.
Jan 17, 2023 2:15 PM
Drummer/vibraphonist Jason Marsalis, in town with the New Orleans Groovemasters, took time for a listening session and…
“The gutbucket blues is really tribulation from stress and hard times,” King says.
Jan 17, 2023 2:04 PM
The elder statesmen of New Orleans blues — Little Freddie King and Guitar “Lightnin” Lee — are both…
Levitt described his process for making Upside Down Mountain as “whatever flowed freely from my heart.”
Jan 17, 2023 1:55 PM
There is something so luminous, open-hearted and wholly unique about the music on Yosef Gutman Levitt’s self-produced…
“I enjoyed exploring different techniques with this music,” Yeager says.
Jan 17, 2023 1:13 PM
Kurt Vonnegut, the late, great American novelist and iconoclast, was many things: satirist, science fictional…
Jakob Bro, left, and Joe Lovano lead Once Around The Room, a tribute to Paul Motian.
Jan 10, 2023 11:21 AM
The sui generis septet album Once Around The Room (ECM) references the beautiful Paul Motian song “Once Around The…
Karl Emil Knudsen, second from left, with members of Papa Bue’s Viking Jazz Band, which recorded Storyville’s first million-selling record.
Jan 10, 2023 10:55 AM
The oldest and largest independent jazz record label in Europe is currently celebrating its 70th anniversary, and…
Gretchen Valade
Jan 3, 2023 12:45 PM
EDITOR’S NOTE: As this edition of the DownBeat Enewsletter was about to go out, we learned of the passing of jazz…
Randall Kline
Jan 3, 2023 12:30 PM
“Scalability” is a popular buzzword among businesses and organizations these days, and DownBeat Lifetime…
Jim Nadel
Jan 3, 2023 12:25 PM
When Jim Nadel presented the final concert of the 2022 Stanford Jazz Festival in late July, the newest entrant into the…
Miles Osland
Jan 3, 2023 12:20 PM
Miles Osland, DownBeat’s 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award for Jazz Education honoree at the collegiate level, had a…
