Apr 15, 2025 11:35 AM
Joe Alterman: Pianistic Salvation
The piano saved Joe Alterman’s life. Dealing with crippling obsessive-compulsive disorder as a teenager, Alterman…
Saxophonist Houston Person joins Joe Alterman (left) on the pianist’s latest release, Brisket For Breakfast.
Apr 15, 2025 11:35 AM
The piano saved Joe Alterman’s life. Dealing with crippling obsessive-compulsive disorder as a teenager, Alterman…
“They are all part of the same harmonic river,” Anne Sajdera says about artists ranging from Ravel, Debussy and Isaac Albeniz to Geri Allen, Sullivan Fortner and Terence Blanchard.
Apr 15, 2025 11:24 AM
When Anne Sajdera enrolled at San Francisco Conservatory in the late 1980s, her fellow piano majors were mostly bearing…
Apr 10, 2025 2:15 PM
Once again, in preparation for Record Store Day — this Saturday, April 12 — DownBeat goes crate-diggin’ to bring…
The cover image of one of two new Sun Ra releases on vinyl.
Apr 10, 2025 2:10 PM
If you’re like DownBeat’s editors and need a good dose of music from the avant garde side of jazz, get to your…
Tony Williams’ Civilization is among the new entries in Blue Note’s Classic Vinyl Series.
Apr 10, 2025 2:05 PM
From a Record Store Day Exclusive to a trio of cool Tone Poet Society releases as well as a duo of additions to the…
Apr 10, 2025 2:00 PM
Resonance Records has been a valued and frequent contributor to RSD in past years. This year is no exception, with four…
A document of John Lee Hooker live in Paris.
Apr 10, 2025 1:55 PM
Here’s a fresh batch of blues on vinyl to break your heart and make you love it. And when that heart needs mending,…
More Mingus? Thank you!
Apr 10, 2025 1:50 PM
Here’s even more great music to please your ears and satisfy your hunger for historically significant recordings.…
“In terms of what a singer is capable of making you feel, she is as good as it gets,” Cavassa said of Mahalia Jackson during a live Blindfold Test with DB’s Frank Alkyer.
Apr 1, 2025 8:30 AM
At the end of last summer, over the Labor Day weekend, vocalist Gabrielle Cavassa took time out from preparing for her…
The 47th Kennedy Center Honors featured a stellar group including The Grateful Dead, film director Francis Ford Coppola, Arturo Sandoval, Bonnie Raitt and The Apollo Theater. Will future Honors uphold these standards?
Apr 1, 2025 8:22 AM
Editor’s Note: The following served as the First Take column, which is our editor’s letter, in the April issue of…
