Apr 10, 2019 10:03 AM
Works of Wadada Leo Smith Celebrated at Third CREATE Festival
The sheer force of Wadada Leo Smith’s shaman-like charisma filled the room before he even took the stage at Firehouse…
Trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith hosted his third CREATE Festival April 6 and 7 at Firehouse 12 in New Haven, Connecticut.
Apr 10, 2019 10:03 AM
The sheer force of Wadada Leo Smith’s shaman-like charisma filled the room before he even took the stage at Firehouse…
Pianist Carla Bley leads a trio with bassist Steve Swallow and saxophonist Andy Sheppard at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, on March 23.
Mar 26, 2019 10:45 AM
Pianist Carla Bley’s longtime trio with bassist Steve Swallow and saxophonist Andy Sheppard is set to head into a…
Bassist Chuck Israels leads his Nextet ensemble during a March 6 show at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Mar 11, 2019 9:00 AM
In 2014, when singer Cécile McLorin Salvant and pianist Aaron Diehl played the Biamp PDX Jazz Festival in Portland,…
Anthony Braxton performs at the Edition Festival, which ran Feb. 7–10 in Stockholm.
Feb 14, 2019 3:00 PM
The centerpieces for the fourth iteration of Stockholm’s Edition Festival were two performances devoted to the music…
Guitarist-composer Oscar Peñas (left) pianist Marta Sánchez and drummer Richie Barshay perform Feb. 8 at Aaron Davis Hall at the City College Center for the Arts in Harlem.
Feb 12, 2019 9:33 AM
Oscar Peñas is a poet. Having tasked himself with writing a suite dedicated to the centuries-old practice of…
At New York’s Winter Jazzfest on Jan. 12, Allison Miller co-leads an ensemble with pianist Carmen Staaf at Subculture.
Jan 16, 2019 8:58 AM
On display at New York’s Winter Jazzfest is not only a variety of styles, repertoires, concepts and generations, but…
Pianist Alfredo Rodríguez and percussionist Pedrito Martinez perform at New York’s SubCulture during Winter Jazzfest.
Jan 15, 2019 8:48 AM
For the past 15 years, Winter Jazzfest’s signature event has been a weekend marathon spread across dozens of New York…
Henry Threadgill performs Jan. 11 at the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio.
Jan 14, 2019 9:00 AM
Henry Threadgill’s Zooid along with the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble performed the world premiere of…
Led by Wynton Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, the memorial concert for Roy Hargrove at Lincoln Center began with a traditional, New Orleans-style second line march.
Jan 9, 2019 4:47 PM
Around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday at Jazz at Lincoln Center, as the memorial concert for Roy Hargrove neared its fifth hour,…
Kamasi Washington performs Saturday at SFJAZZ with bassist John Patitucci, drummer Brian Blade and pianist Danilo Pérez during a celebration of Wayne Shorter.
Jan 8, 2019 9:00 AM
At the top of Saturday night’s Wayne Shorter Legacy Celebration in San Francisco, Randall Kline, artistic and…
