Sep 28, 2016 11:19 AM
Metheny Quartet Plays SFJAZZ, Extends Guitarist’s Reach
SFJAZZ launched its 2016–’17 season with a members-only Opening Night gathering on Sept. 8. The four-hour event…
Gwilym Simcock (left), Pat Metheny, Linda Oh and Antonio Sanchez perform at the SFJAZZ Center on Sept. 8.
Sep 28, 2016 11:19 AM
SFJAZZ launched its 2016–’17 season with a members-only Opening Night gathering on Sept. 8. The four-hour event…
Orrin Evans (left), Oliver Lake and Eric Revis perform as Tarbaby on Sept. 2 at the Chicago Jazz Festival.
Sep 28, 2016 10:53 AM
The band Tarbaby delivered a powerful set at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion on Sept. 2 as part of the Chicago Jazz Festival.…
Dave King, drummer for the trio The Bad Plus, performs at the Chicago Jazz Festival on Sept. 3.
Sep 27, 2016 11:46 AM
The 38th Annual Chicago Jazz Festival, a free event held Sept. 1–4, was blessed with perfect weather, a large, diverse,…
Roy Hargrove performs at the Detroit Jazz Festival on Sept. 3.
Sep 27, 2016 11:39 AM
Jazz is urban music, and no festival feels quite so urban as the Detroit Jazz Festival, which took place over Labor Day…
Tigran Hamasyan performs at the Punkt Festival in Kristiansand, Norway, on Sept. 3.
Sep 27, 2016 11:11 AM
An increasing number of festivals are making their mark through unusual presentations, and Norway’s Punkt is a prime…
Janell Brown performs in The Harlem Strut, a musical revue produced by the participants of Jazz Is A Rainbow in Lynn, Massachusetts.
Sep 27, 2016 10:47 AM
The members of any performing ensemble need time to learn each other’s creative quirks and hammer out a level of…
Charles Lloyd (foreground) and Harish Raghavan perform at the Oslo Jazz Festival on Aug. 17.
Sep 27, 2016 10:44 AM
The fourth night of the 30th Annual Oslo Jazz Festival (Aug. 14–20) centered on a particularly riveting set by…
Somi (left) Toru Dodo and Liberty Ellman perform at the Sochi Jazz Festival on Aug. 4.
Sep 27, 2016 9:34 AM
Although the vocalist Somi was only female headliner at Russia’s seventh annual Sochi International Jazz Festival,…
Jeff Lederer, Allison Miller and Rene Hart are the Honey Ear Trio. The group performed at Constellation in Chicago on Aug. 5.
Sep 8, 2016 3:56 PM
On Aug. 5 at the cozy experimental venue Constellation, about 40 fans gathered close to the stage for two intensely…
Jan Garbarek performs at the Oslo Jazz Festival in Norway on Aug. 14.
Sep 8, 2016 3:44 PM
Jan Garbarek, a limber and graceful reedist, played fast, loose and everything in between with his band at the 30th…
