Jul 11, 2017 4:41 PM
Afrobeat Drummer Allen’s Quartet Pays Tribute to Blakey at Poisson Rouge
Tony Allen was in a buoyant mood after playing an 80-minute set at the club (le) Poisson Rouge in New York’s…
Tony Allen performs at (le) Poisson Rouge in New York’s Greenwich Village on July 5.
Jul 11, 2017 4:41 PM
Tony Allen was in a buoyant mood after playing an 80-minute set at the club (le) Poisson Rouge in New York’s…
Patrick Higgins, Greg Fox and Sam Hillmer of Zs. The group performed at Sunnyvale in Brooklyn on July 6.
Jul 10, 2017 5:50 PM
The techniques of saxophonists like Ethiopian player Getatchew Mekurya and Texas tenors Gene Ammons and Tina Brooks, as…
Roy Hargrove (second from right) leads his quintet at the Jazz Forum, in Tarrytown, New York, during the venue’s opening week.
Jul 10, 2017 12:10 PM
For area jazz fans, the news in September 2015 that indefatigable impresario and trumpet/flugelhorn player Mark…
Luis Perdomo (left), Miguel Zenón, Hans Glawischnig and Henry Cole perform at Bogui Jazz in Madrid on July 2.
Jul 6, 2017 12:22 PM
When alto saxophone player Miguel Zenón and his quartet took the stage at Bogui Jazz in Madrid for the group’s…
Rez Abbasi (left), Miles Okazaki and Nels Cline perform at the Greenwich House in New York City on June 30.
Jul 5, 2017 1:47 PM
Some of the most adventurous programming in New York during the span of a week in June took place at the Greenwich…
American artists Ned Rothenberg (left) and Amir ElSaffar join Polish musicians Michal Bryndal and bassist Ksawery Wójciński for a performance during the Jazztopad festival in New York City.
Jul 5, 2017 11:15 AM
Jazztopad is a major Polish festival, with its 15th edition in Wroclaw set for November. For the last three years, a…
John Medeski (left), Larry Grenadier, Jack DeJohnette and John Scofield perform as the collective Hudson on June 30 at the Montreal Jazz Festival.
Jul 3, 2017 8:51 AM
The Montreal Jazz Festival has earned a reputation for presenting some of the finer emerging acts in improvised music…
Keyboardist Amino Belyamani of Dawn of Midi performs at Solid Sound in North Adams, Massachusetts, on June 23.
Jun 30, 2017 4:07 PM
Wilco and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art curated and hosted their fifth Solid Sound Festival June…
Casey Benjamin (left) and Robert Glasper of the Robert Glasper Experiment perform at the Solid Sound Festival in North Adams, Massachusetts, on June 24.
Jun 30, 2017 1:51 PM
In its fifth year, Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival proved to be a dense blend of eclectic music, spacious contemporary…
Regina Carter performs at the 2017 DuPont Clifford Jazz Festival, which ran from June 21-–24 in Wilmington, Delaware.
Jun 27, 2017 2:45 PM
Danilo Pérez, Somi and Regina Carter headlined the 29th edition of the DuPont Clifford Brown Jazz Festival, which ran…
