Dec 9, 2016 2:53 PM
Jazz Meets World at Stockholm Fest
This year’s Stockholm Jazz Festival, held October 7–16, tilted a bit more in the direction of world music, with jazz…
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…
Lucinda Williams (left) with Charles Lloyd at the Lobero Theater in Los Angeles on Nov. 28.
Dec 7, 2016 5:03 PM
Saxophonist Charles Lloyd sometimes talks about his early desire to be a singer, a desire which has transformed his…
Leslie Pintchik performs at Jazz at Kitano in New York on Dec. 1.
Dec 5, 2016 5:18 PM
At the beginning of her trio set last Thursday evening at the Manhattan jazz boîte known as Jazz at Kitano, Leslie…
Wynton Marsalis performs during a tribute to author and theoretician Albert Murray on Nov. 28 at the 92nd Street Y in New York.
Dec 2, 2016 2:34 PM
Novelist Ayana Mathis was shocked when she first discovered the writing of critic, essayist and fellow fiction writer…
Jason Moran gives a lecture to Jazztopad attendees prior to his show at the festival on Nov. 18.
Dec 1, 2016 3:37 PM
The Jazztopad festival in Wroclaw, Poland, is deeply invested in the idea of commissioning new works. That message was…
John Medeski (left), Chris Wood and Billy Martin (seen here in a publicity photo) performed in On Air Studio in Cleveland on Nov. 18.
Nov 29, 2016 5:16 PM
Count on Medeski Martin & Wood to throw a very entertaining party. With the help of illustrious friends, the deeply…
Nov 29, 2016 5:10 PM
Though Chicago is a landlocked cultural oasis and despite the xenophobia of current times, the city is still a…
Joe Lovano (left) and Chucho Valdés (seen here in a publicity photo) performed at Birdland in New York Nov. 22–27.
Nov 29, 2016 5:05 PM
Joe Lovano and Chucho Valdés first met in 1986, when Lovano played the Havana Jazz Festival with Charlie Haden’s…
Wayne Shorter (left) and John Patitucci perform at the Jazztopad Festival in Worclaw, Poland.
Nov 29, 2016 5:00 PM
There may be some poetic justice in the fact that Jazztopad, one of the more innovative and important of the…
