Dec 5, 2023 1:10 PM
Blindfold Test: Bill Frisell
Fortunate and few are the jazz headliners with options like guitar maestro Bill Frisell, who can choose to lead various…
Dec 5, 2023 1:10 PM
Fortunate and few are the jazz headliners with options like guitar maestro Bill Frisell, who can choose to lead various…
Dec 5, 2023 12:56 PM
This crop of great sounds shares the soundtrack of a vibrant Latinidad that is deeply rooted in cultural histories,…
Dec 5, 2023 12:46 PM
Todd Sickafoose is at his parents’ place in the San Francisco Bay Area. He just returned from camping — fitting,…
Nov 28, 2023 11:56 AM
Five years ago, the mighty Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy, paid lavish tribute to Quincy Jones on the occasion…
Nov 28, 2023 11:35 AM
Eight years ago, the now-shuttered Brooklyn-based underground performance space The Silent Barn hosted a Musicians…
Nov 28, 2023 11:28 AM
Ever the trouper, Roberto Fonseca was gamely persevering amid the frequent breakdowns on a late-summer Zoom call from…
Nov 28, 2023 11:21 AM
Since moving to New York City in 1987, veteran guitarist-composer Rez Abbasi has been a boundary-pushing presence on…
Nov 22, 2023 12:45 PM
The DownBeat Readers have spoken. And the results are vast! With 36 categories and hundreds upon hundreds of albums and…
Nov 22, 2023 12:43 PM
The moment happened on a cloudy September evening in Los Angeles, in darkness around the neon-lit outline of the…
Nov 22, 2023 12:42 PM
With Wayne Shorter’s passing on March 2, the readers of DownBeat wanted to honor him one more time by naming him…