Apr 28, 2016 5:57 PM
A Double Dose of Blakes: Ran and Seamus Hold Forth in Chicago
Chicago has a remarkably fertile music scene, buoyed in no small part by the 2013 opening of Constellation, a music…
Ran Blake
Apr 28, 2016 5:57 PM
Chicago has a remarkably fertile music scene, buoyed in no small part by the 2013 opening of Constellation, a music…
Oliver Lake (left), George Sams and Darrell Mixon perform at the Ferring Jazz Bistro in St. Louis on April 21 as part of Jazz St. Louis’ “Jazz Speaks” series.
Apr 28, 2016 5:53 PM
Jazz St. Louis, the non-profit group that books world-class jazz artists at the Ferring Jazz Bistro, kicked off an…
Neil Leonard (left) and Terence Blanchard (right, foreground) perform during the “Wired for Jazz” student showcase at Berklee College of Music in Boston on April 21.
Apr 28, 2016 5:50 PM
The mood was subdued inside Boston’s sparsely populated Berklee Performance Center on April 21, that day having…
Yellowjackets—Russell Ferrante (left), Will Kennedy, Dane Alderson and Bob Mintzer—played songs from a new album at Birdland in New York on April 19.
Apr 28, 2016 5:48 PM
Three days before the release of its new album, Cohearence (Mack Avenue), the superstar quartet Yellowjackets unveiled…
Randy Weston performs at the Jazz Foundation of America’s annual Jazz Loft Party at Hudson Studios in Manhattan on April 16.
Apr 28, 2016 5:43 PM
With its 25th annual Jazz Loft Party on April 16, the Jazz Foundation of America and its Executive Director, newly…
Harold Mabern performs at the Savannah Music Festival in Savannah, Georgia, on March 31.
Apr 27, 2016 12:21 PM
The concept of a piano trio is not new. In jazz, this entails the classic formation of piano, bass and drums, but in…
Roy Nathanson performs at Littlefield in Brooklyn on April 17 as part of the release party for his new album, The Nearness Of You.
Apr 27, 2016 12:18 PM
The ever-inventive saxophonist, composer and bandleader Roy Nathanson’s new album is a distillation of a week of gigs…
Cecil Taylor, the subject of a career retrospective at the Whitney Museum in New York, listens to a performance there on April 16.
Apr 27, 2016 12:15 PM
On the opening day of Open Plan: Cecil Taylor, muttering had begun from assembled fans that Taylor—who was being feted…
Benny Sharoni performs at Fitzgerald’s in Berwyn, Illinois, on April 9.
Apr 27, 2016 12:13 PM
Israeli tenor saxophonist Benny Sharoni wasn’t born in Alabama or the Bronx—he’s from Yemeni/Chilean parentage—but…
David Fiuczynski (seen here in a press photo) performed at Shapeshifter Lab in Brooklyn on April 14.
Apr 27, 2016 12:10 PM
Guitarist-composer-conceptualist David Fiuczynski has been operating on the fringe for decades, first with his…
