Jan 9, 2020 9:23 AM
Avram Fefer at the Outer Limits
Saxophonist Avram Fefer is drawn to musicians who push the outer limits of what’s possible. Ornette Coleman, Wayne…
Avram Fefer expands his trio by adding guitarist Marc Ribot.
Jan 9, 2020 9:23 AM
Saxophonist Avram Fefer is drawn to musicians who push the outer limits of what’s possible. Ornette Coleman, Wayne…
Willie Jones III has worked on a pair of releases for the newly established Night Is Alive imprint, helmed by Kathy Moses Salem.
Jan 8, 2020 9:25 AM
“We started off very small: I was only doing management for jazz musicians,” said Kathy Moses Salem, managing…
Trumpeter Tomasz Dabrowski is a musician eager to challenge himself with shifting contexts and self-imposed limitations.
Jan 7, 2020 9:00 AM
Adversity has been a steady motivator in the career of Polish trumpeter Tomasz Dabrowski, starting with his early…
Drummer Shelly Manne’s work as a leader and sideperson exhibits his refusal to be pigeonholed.
Jan 6, 2020 9:00 AM
A case can be made that no other drummer of his era had, in today’s parlance, a stronger “brand” than Shelly…
Yusef Lateef (1920–2013)
Jan 3, 2020 9:19 AM
Yusef Lateef, the Detroit-bred multi-instrumentalist and composer who was born in 1920 and lived to be 93, was a…
Clark Terry (1920–2015)
Jan 2, 2020 9:15 AM
While many listeners discovered Clark Terry during his time with The Tonight Show band in the 1960s and ’70s, a new…
Trumpeter/vocalist Bria Skonberg is among the international artists who have performed at the North Carolina Jazz Festival in Wilmington.
Jan 1, 2020 9:00 AM
Saxophonist Houston Person and drummer/vibraphonist Chuck Redd—two of the headliners at the upcoming 40th annual…
Dee Alexander explores the more obscure songs of Billie Holiday on her latest Delmark release.
Dec 31, 2019 9:00 AM
“I can’t remember a time when Billie Holiday’s music wasn’t in my life,” says Dee Alexander, the Chicago…
Carla Thomas (left), Dee Dee Bridgewater, Steven Bernstein, Craig Handy and Natalie Cressman onstage at the WBGO gala on Nov. 6 in Manhattan
Dec 25, 2019 9:00 AM
On Nov. 6, Newark’s jazz public radio station, WBGO, marked a milestone by throwing itself a 40th anniversary party.…
Aaron Weinstein’s new album is a trio project titled 3x3.
Dec 24, 2019 9:00 AM
It’s often noted that Jazz musicians and stand-up comedians have certain similarities: a need for split-second…
