May 26, 2016 5:37 PM
Miller, Bunnett, Carrington Bring Flair to Mary Lou Williams Festival
“A drum is a woman” could have easily served as the subtitle for the second night of the 21st annual Mary Lou…
The Mary Lou Williams Festival in Washington, D.C., honors the late singer and pianist, pictured here, who died in 1981.
May 26, 2016 5:37 PM
“A drum is a woman” could have easily served as the subtitle for the second night of the 21st annual Mary Lou…
Taylor Eigsti performs during the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on May 12.
May 26, 2016 5:34 PM
In the first of two sold-out sets at Bell’s Eccentric Café in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the Irving S. Gilmore…
Chris Potter performs at the Jazzkaar Festival in Tallinn, Estonia, on April 27.
May 26, 2016 5:31 PM
The Jazzkaar festival has been an annual event in Tallinn, Estonia, since 1990, when the Soviet period was coming to an…
Jason Adasiewicz (left), Steve Noble, John Edwards and Peter Brötzmann perform at the Art Institute of Chicago on May 21.
May 25, 2016 5:22 PM
Before Peter Brötzmann gained renown as a musician, he was a German art student who played clarinet in a Dixieland band…
Kamasi Washington (left) and Ryan Porter perform at Where Spaceways Meet: A Night of Spiritual Jazz, part of the Red Bull Music Academy Festival in Brooklyn on May 8.
May 18, 2016 1:01 PM
In the current climate of reconstituted knowledge—where a list of things you might not know or anything evoking Brian…
Grammy-winning drummer Ulysses Owens Jr. performs at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola in New York on April 29.
May 18, 2016 12:29 PM
In a celebration of “Ellington And Beyond,” the immensely talented drummer Ulysses Owens Jr. and his equally…
Brue Barth demonstrated his distinguished combination of ceaseless imagination and unshakable swing at Mezzrow in New York City on May 7.
May 18, 2016 12:21 PM
The small, narrow listening room Mezzrow, with its strangely perfect acoustics, is an unlikely success in a city full…
Anthony Wilson (left) and Joshua Crumbly perform material from Wilson’s new album, Frogtown, at The Django in Manhattan’s Roxy Hotel.
May 18, 2016 12:18 PM
Early on during his May 5 show at The Django, a new room in Manhattan’s Roxy Hotel inspired by Parisian boites of the…
Aaron Diehl performs on May 5 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, as part of the Gilmore Keyboard Festival.
May 18, 2016 12:05 PM
The Aaron Diehl Trio’s performance on May 5 was the debut jazz concert at the Eccentric Café, located inside…
Saxophonist Christoph Irniger (center) leads his namesake quintet, Christoph Irniger Pilgrim, at the Jazzahead! conference in Bremen, Germany, on April 23.
May 18, 2016 12:02 PM
In its 11 years of operation, the biggest jazz “meeting” in Europe has been extending an invitation to musicians,…
