Oct 6, 2020 9:00 AM
Yazz Ahmed Continues To Unfold New Ideas
On the three studio albums flugelhorn player Yazz Ahmed’s released, there’s a very clear unfolding of singular…
Yazz Ahmed is among the 25 artists DownBeat thinks will help shape jazz in the decades to come.
Oct 6, 2020 9:00 AM
On the three studio albums flugelhorn player Yazz Ahmed’s released, there’s a very clear unfolding of singular…
Multi-instrumentalist Jon Batiste is facilitating a series of music-forward protests through his WE ARE organization.
Oct 2, 2020 9:00 AM
Wrapped in brick and converted from its previous life as an industrial space, the Constellation venue’s two separate…
The Apogee Symphony I/O Mk II (clockwise from top left), Carlos Henriquez with the MXL Revelation II and Avid Pro Tools recording platform
Oct 1, 2020 9:00 AM
Now is an ideal time for musicians to get on board with home recording. With gigs few and far between due to the…
Carmen McRae (1920–’94) often paid tribute to Billie Holiday, one of her key influences.
Sep 25, 2020 8:44 AM
Carmen McRae’s chemistry with a lyric was not dissimilar to sodium pentothal’s effects on subjects of…
Steve Swallow’s early heroes included acoustic bassist Percy Heath.
Sep 24, 2020 9:00 AM
To paraphrase Shakespeare, some are born great, and some achieve greatness. But when it comes to playing the electric…
Guitarist Ruben Machtelinckx formed the Aspen Edities imprint in 2017 alongside euphonium player Niels Van Heertum and writer Sanne Huysmans
Sep 23, 2020 8:51 AM
Last winter, at the Brand Festival in the quaint Belgian city of Mechelen, guitarist and improviser Ruben Machtelinckx…
The members of Artemis are drummer Allison Miller (left), pianist and musical director Renee Rosnes, bassist Noriko Ueda, trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, clarinetist Anat Cohen and tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana.
Sep 18, 2020 8:52 AM
Last fall, Blue Note Records made history by signing pianist Renee Rosnes’ adventurous septet, Artemis, to its…
Vibraphonist Warren Wolf’s most recent leader date is Reincarnation (Mack Avenue).
Sep 17, 2020 9:00 AM
A classically trained musician who can play several instruments—including vibraphone, marimba, piano and drums—…
Jazz flutist David Bertrand, now based in Brooklyn, hails from Trinidad and Tobago.
Sep 15, 2020 8:53 AM
This Juneteenth, I published my first blog post, which I titled “Black Sound, White Light.” It was a response to…
The independent label Blujazz has released vocalist Joyce Grant’s latest album, Surrounded By Blue.
Sep 10, 2020 9:00 AM
For 22 years, vocalist Joyce Grant had a nearly uninterrupted weekly engagement at Zingari Ristorante, located in San…
