Feb 19, 2018 9:33 AM
Arturo O’Farrill Exhibits Political Leanings Alongside Cornel West
Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra embraced a wealth of jazz history during its winning performance at the…
Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra seemed to summon the socio-political works of Charles Mingus at a recent performance at the Strathmore Music Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
Feb 19, 2018 9:33 AM
Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra embraced a wealth of jazz history during its winning performance at the…
Joshua Redman performed along with Snarky Puppy bassist Michael League at the second annual GroundUP Music Festival in Miami Beach, Florida, which ran Feb. 9-11.
Feb 16, 2018 2:59 PM
The second annual GroundUP Music Festival, which took place Feb. 9-11 in Miami Beach, felt a bit like paradise.
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Guitarist Camila Meza (left), bassist Matt Clohesy, trombonist Ryan Keberle, drummer Eric Doob and saxophonist John Ellis perform at The Dark Room in St. Louis on Jan. 28.
Jan 30, 2018 5:14 PM
When trombonist Ryan Keberle formed Catharsis, the piano-less group he’s recorded and toured with since 2012, he…
Ron Affif (left) and Mark Whitfield perform with Strings Attached at Zinc Bar as a part of Winter JazzFest
Jan 17, 2018 11:57 AM
Just as the Montreal International Jazz Festival, widely acknowledged as one of the biggest and most comprehensive…
Rez Abbasi’s Invocation performed Saturday at Zinc Bar as part of 2018’s Winter Jazzfest.
Jan 15, 2018 11:00 AM
If Winter Jazzfest acts as a kind of annual State of the Music address—and it does—then the ideal way to consume it…
Ben Sidran (left), Ricky Ford, Peter Giron and Leo Sidran perform at Sunset Sunside in Paris on Nov. 29.
Dec 28, 2017 5:15 PM
When a soulful raconteur such a pianist Ben Sidran teams up with a skillful storyteller like saxophonist Ricky Ford,…
Lewis Achenbach paints on an acrylic sheet as musicians, including flutist Dalia Chin (left), perform at Constellation in Chicago on Dec. 13.
Dec 20, 2017 5:36 PM
The 13th installment of the Jazz Occurrence series—an ongoing run of Chicago-area gatherings that pair visual art…
Erwin Ditzner performs at the 2017 Enjoy Jazz Festival in Mannheim, Germany.
Nov 30, 2017 2:58 PM
Some festivals cram everything into a single weekend, but Enjoy Jazz, in the southwest of Germany, is an epic affair…
Dee Dee Bridgewater performed songs from her album Memphis … Yes, I’m Ready during a Nov. 16 concert at the EFG London Jazz Festival.
Nov 30, 2017 2:02 PM
London is blessed with a wide variety of music venues, which in turn provide vastly differing atmospheres for the…
Antonio Adolfo performs at The Blue Note in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Nov. 11.
Nov 29, 2017 11:51 AM
For all its invigorating musical variety, encompassing everything from Malian blues to French jazz to surreal Serbian…
