Sep 27, 2017 7:49 AM
Monk Tributes, Innovative Pairings Give Spark to Hyde Park Jazz Fest
The 11th annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival, populating a dozen varied venues amid the picturesque splendor of the…
Nick Mazzarella (left) and Tomeka Reid perform at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, which took place Sept. 23–24 in Chicago.
Sep 27, 2017 7:49 AM
The 11th annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival, populating a dozen varied venues amid the picturesque splendor of the…
Samantha Fish performs during the ELLNORA festval at the Krannert Center in Urbana, Illinois, on Sept. 14.
Sep 22, 2017 11:15 PM
The ELLNORA Guitar Festival, held Sept. 14–16, is a mecca for all manner of string players as well as voracious music…
Luisito Quintero (left), Chick Corea, Steve Wilson, Steve Gadd, Lionel Loueke and Carlitos Del Puerto performed a Sept. 19–30 residency at the Blue Note in New York.
Sep 21, 2017 5:21 PM
It’s not clear whether Art Blakey intoned his famous dictum, “Music washes away the dust of everyday life,” back…
Linda May Han Oh onstage at the 2017 Monterey Jazz Festival, held Sept. 15–17 in California.
Sep 20, 2017 7:33 PM
Three years ago, when Monterey Jazz Festival Artistic Director Tim Jackson booked The Roots as a Saturday-night…
Sullivan Fortner performs at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York as part of JALC’s Opening Night on Sept. 14.
Sep 18, 2017 2:50 PM
“The Fantastic Mr. Jelly Lord,” the all-Jelly Roll Morton concert that opened the 2017 season of the Jazz at…
Dee Dee Bridgewater performs at SFJAZZ in San Francisco on Sept. 8 as part of the venue’s season opening.
Sep 14, 2017 4:44 PM
SFJAZZ opened its 2017–’18 season on Sept. 7 with a formidable members-only show by Dee Dee Bridgewater. A tribute…
Mike Stern’s latest album, Trip, was released Sept. 8.
Sep 13, 2017 4:22 PM
Mike Stern’s new album Trip is a curiously dissonance-tinted affair—perhaps referencing the fusion guitarist’s…
Arve Henriksen (left) and Jan Bang perform at the Punkt Festival in Norway, which ran from Aug. 31–Sept. 2.
Sep 12, 2017 11:53 AM
The ultimate distinction of Norway’s Punkt Festival is its devotion to the “instant live remix.” A band’s set…
Markus Reuter, Pat Mastelotto and Tony Levin perform at Callahan’s in Detroit on Sept. 3.
Sep 7, 2017 12:03 PM
At Callahan’s, in Detroit’s posh northern suburb of Auburn Hills, jazz fans keen on prog-rock were treated to a…
Trumpeter Russ Johnson (left), bassist Jason Roebke, alto saxophonist Dave Rempis, drummer Mike Reed and vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz perform in Chicago on Aug. 31.
Sep 5, 2017 5:07 PM
The lineup for this year’s Chicago Jazz Festival included, for the first time, an entry from the Jazz Record Art…
