The sextet Invocation includes Vijay Iyer (left), Johannes Weidenmeuller, bandleader Rez Abbasi, Rudresh Mahanthappa and Dan Weiss.
Dec 30, 2016 3:21 PM
In a striking example of East-meets-West, Pakistani-born guitarist Rez Abbasi led his Invocation sextet for the…
Steve Miller (left)
Dec 23, 2016 10:27 AM
Steve Miller never seems to age. Joined by his frequent guitar-slinging partner Jimmie Vaughan for a tribute to Texas…
Drummers Hamid Drake (left) and Michael Zerang will perform at morning and night on Dec. 21–23.
Dec 21, 2016 1:40 PM
Chicago free-jazz fans are a devoted bunch. They’re so devoted, in fact, that they braved frigid temperatures and…
Candice Hoyes (left) at New York Fasion Week
Dec 19, 2016 8:56 AM
The fashion capital of the world concluded its most coveted event of the year on Sept. 17. As New York Fashion Week…
Matthew Greif (left), Scott Tennant, William Kanengiser and John Dearman are the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet.
Dec 15, 2016 10:32 AM
For more than 30 years now, the illustrious and versatile Los Angeles Guitar Quartet has earned its bragging rights as…
Donny McCaslin performs with the New England Conservatory Jazz Orchestra at Jordan Hall in Boston on Dec. 8
Dec 13, 2016 4:39 PM
Ken Schaphorst, the bandleader at the helm of the New England Conservatory Jazz Orchestra, is an intrepid director and…
Jake Shimabukuro (left) and Nolan Verner perform at the Bing Concert Hall in Stanford, California, on Dec. 8.
Dec 12, 2016 1:53 PM
When Jake Shimabukuro triumphantly entered Bing Concert Hall in Stanford, California, on Dec. 8, he flashed an easy…
Yoko Miwa (left) accompanies Sheila Jordan at Thelonious Monkfish in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Dec. 2.
Dec 9, 2016 4:21 PM
Sheila Jordan reigns undisputedly as mellow mistress of any jazz club she visits. She strolled into Thelonious…
Roscoe Mitchell performs at the Stockholm Jazz Festival, which ran from Oct. 7–16 in Stockholm, Sweden.
Dec 9, 2016 2:53 PM
This year’s Stockholm Jazz Festival, held October 7–16, tilted a bit more in the direction of world music, with jazz…
From left to right: Andrew Vogt, Mikel Avery (obscured) Hunter Diamond, Quentin Coaxum and Stu Mindeman perform selections from A Charlie Brown Christmas at the Hubbard Street Lofts in Chicago on Dec. 7.
Dec 8, 2016 8:33 PM
Holiday festivities have been underway since Thanksgiving, but nothing really rings in the Christmas spirit like…
