Aug 7, 2017 4:05 PM
Bennett Soars in Familiar Setting
Just after Tony Bennett jaunted onstage at Ravinia in Highland Park, Illinois, on Aug. 4, he sang the Gordon Jenkins…
Aug 7, 2017 4:05 PM
Just after Tony Bennett jaunted onstage at Ravinia in Highland Park, Illinois, on Aug. 4, he sang the Gordon Jenkins…
Aug 2, 2017 1:44 PM
The 18th annual Funchal Jazz Festival, which transpired July 13–15 in the capital city of Madeira, a Portuguese…
Jul 27, 2017 2:38 PM
Vijay Iyer has done more than his share in the contemporary cause of musical border-crossing and idiom-fusing in—and…
Jul 26, 2017 3:46 PM
The Gent Jazz Festival always presents one of the most adventurous marriages between the music’s hardcore root and…
Jul 26, 2017 2:01 PM
This year’s Umbria Jazz festival in Perugia, Italy, once again featured an ambitious multifaceted program that ranged…
Jul 25, 2017 3:27 PM
Was the decision to sandwich vibraphonist Roy Ayers in between two sprawling Afrobeat bands a savvy piece of jazz…
Jul 24, 2017 4:08 PM
“Jazz is alive at the 92nd Street Y,” WBGO radio personality Rhonda Hamilton announced to the sold-out house that…
Jul 24, 2017 12:27 PM
From the Afro-Cuban re-imagining of “Epistrophy” to a lively rap version of “Brake’s Sake,” Thelonious…
Jul 20, 2017 3:34 PM
If visiting Festival International de Jazz de Montreal on July 3, a King Crimson fan would have needed to set aside…
Jul 20, 2017 3:12 PM
The Kongsberg Jazz Festival, held every summer in an otherwise sleepy silver mining town about 90 minutes from Oslo,…