Feb 6, 2020 11:28 AM
Friends and Family Share Stories and Music During Tribute to the Late Lawrence Leathers
Candy-colored lights illuminated the bandstand at Dizzy’s Monday night, the way they always do. Patrons settled into…
Wynton Marsalis performs Monday in New York at Dizzy’s during a tribute to the late drummer Lawrence Leathers.
Feb 6, 2020 11:28 AM
Candy-colored lights illuminated the bandstand at Dizzy’s Monday night, the way they always do. Patrons settled into…
John Primer (left) and Steve Bell perform at the Winter Blues Summit in Arlington Heights, Illinois, on Feb. 1.
Feb 6, 2020 9:37 AM
The blues experience in the northwest Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights is usually reserved for tapped-out…
Vocalist Mavis Staples performs with guitarist Rick Holmstrom during the SFJAZZ Gala on Jan. 30 in San Francisco. The event marked the vocalist’s expansive career.
Feb 3, 2020 12:04 PM
“Mavis is in my DNA, she’s in the DNA of American music,” said SFJAZZ Collective vocalist Martin Luther McCoy,…
A stately, sagely status hums beneath the surface of a celebratory March 15, 2018, concert by saxophonist Charles Lloyd.
Jan 28, 2020 9:00 AM
On the occasion of his 80th birthday, saxophonist Charles Lloyd staged a concert of homecoming proportions. The show on…
Danilo Pérez speaks during a clinic at the Panama Jazz Festival, which ran Jan. 13-17 in Panama City, Panama.
Jan 27, 2020 11:19 AM
The Panama Jazz Festival provided a vibrant daily schedule, chock-a-block with a dizzying array of classroom…
Lakecia Benjamin performs during Winter Jazzfest, which ran Jan. 8-18 in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Jan 22, 2020 8:58 AM
Peer groups serve as vital incubators for artistic development, but equally critical are intergenerational…
Mark Guiliana performs during Winter Jazzfest, which ran at various venues in Manhattan and Brooklyn between Jan. 8 and 18.
Jan 21, 2020 3:08 PM
Winter JazzFest’s already tremendous musical scope has been widening in recent years to include crucial ideas and…
John Scofield performs during a Beatles tribute at Umbria Jazz Winter in Italy.
Jan 14, 2020 9:00 AM
In contrast to the summer edition of the Umbria Jazz Festival, Umbria Jazz Winter in Orvieto, Italy, usually drives…
Koma Saxo performs a Dec. 5 set at G Livelab during the We Jazz Festival in Helsinki.
Dec 9, 2019 4:01 PM
Unlike many festivals, Helsinki’s venturesome We Jazz Festival, which ran Dec. 1-8, is an inherently restless…
Makaya McCraven performs at the Jazztopad Festival in Wroclaw, Poland, on Nov. 17.
Dec 1, 2019 5:13 PM
With so many annual jazz festivals filling the music calendar across Europe, it takes savvy programming to make such…
