Feb 16, 2021 8:44 AM
NEC Welcomes Students Back To Campus
As a recent issue of DownBeat went to press, the United States was facing frightening trends in terms of COVID-19…
NEC educator Ken Schaphorst conducts an ensemble of student musicians, several of whom are wearing face coverings.
Feb 16, 2021 8:44 AM
As a recent issue of DownBeat went to press, the United States was facing frightening trends in terms of COVID-19…
On Flor (Edition), vocalist Gretchen Parlato speaks to the personal transformation that inspired her career hiatus.
Feb 12, 2021 8:35 AM
In 2014, Gretchen Parlato’s album Live In NYC earned her a Grammy nomination—a crowning glory to a decade of career…
Bandleader Adrian Cunningham has a strong relationship with the Florida-based label Arbors Records.
Feb 11, 2021 9:00 AM
For more than 30 years, the independent label Arbors Records has put artistic concerns ahead of budgetary ones. Based…
Yoko Miwa recorded her trio album Songs Of Joy during the pandemic.
Feb 10, 2021 9:00 AM
What Yoko Miwa has gone through during the coronavirus pandemic will sound familiar to a lot of other working…
During the pandemic, prolific saxophonist Ivo Perelman moved from Brooklyn to Brazil.
Feb 9, 2021 9:01 AM
In 2020, soon after the pandemic reached Brooklyn, Ivo Perelman’s base of operation for decades, the tenor…
The music on Monty Alexander’s new live album, Love You Madly, was recorded in 1982.
Feb 5, 2021 9:00 AM
In the early 1980s, pianist Monty Alexander was a huge draw for jazz clubs and festivals. His hard-swinging style,…
Charlie Young conducts the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra.
Feb 4, 2021 8:37 AM
“Jazz is a very big word,” composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein assured us when he explained jazz to America in the…
Sarah Elizabeth Charles and Jarrett Cherner, who are married, collaborated on a new album titled Tone.
Feb 3, 2021 8:46 AM
As an aspiring jazz singer, the teenage Sarah Elizabeth Charles wanted to be Sarah Vaughan. But after writing a lot of…
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram
Feb 2, 2021 8:35 AM
If ever there were a time for the blues, it was 2020. In the United States, more than 300,000 people died, and many…
Aum Fidelity has issued a 10-disc box set of previously unreleased music by bassist William Parker, titled Migration Of Silence Into And Out Of The Tone World.
Jan 29, 2021 8:26 AM
A tangle of connections fosters the bounty of William Parker’s career. The bassist—who’s released a 10-album set…
