Feb 6, 2023 11:57 PM
ACT Turns 30, Looks Forward
ACT Records has become one of the most significant European jazz labels during its 30-year existence. As the German…
Siggi Loch (left) and Andreas Brandis.
Feb 6, 2023 11:57 PM
ACT Records has become one of the most significant European jazz labels during its 30-year existence. As the German…
The 1968 New Trier West Jazz Ensemble
Feb 6, 2023 11:40 PM
Like many nouveau-upstarts, jazz had to fight for recognition. Academia frowned on fun, especially when its venues were…
Thumbscrew is, from left, Mary Halvorson, Tomas Fujiwara and Michael Formanek.
Jan 31, 2023 12:20 PM
Through countless gigs and seven studio recordings over the past 10 years, the members of the cooperative trio…
The inaugural class of the Next Jazz Legacy, from left: Kalia Vandever, Anastassiya Petrova, Ivanna Cuesta Gonzalez, Keyanna Hutchinson, Loke Risberg, Alexis Lombre and Lexi Hamner.
Jan 31, 2023 11:32 AM
As the Next Jazz Legacy — an initiative created to provide a wide-ranging year-long apprenticeship program to support…
“One of our main goals is to invite people into the music who may not have known they liked jazz,” says Cohen.
Jan 24, 2023 11:59 AM
A pressing question is routinely faced by musicians deprived of live music outlets during COVID times: “What did you…
The premiere of “100 Dreams” featured a host of stars across the new music scene.
Jan 24, 2023 11:08 AM
Performing at Manhattan’s DiMenna Center for Classical Music, a spacious wood-paneled hall in the city’s Midtown…
“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…
