Dave McMurray (left), Esperanza Spalding, Ravi Coltrane and Terri Lyne Carrington pay tribute to the late Geri Allen at the 2018 Detroit Jazz Festival.
Sep 4, 2018 4:08 PM
Over Labor Day weekend in Detroit, many buildings hung their flags at half-mast, as the city laid to rest its favorite…
Lalah Hathaway performs at the San Jose Jazz Summer Fest.
Aug 21, 2018 3:20 PM
It was still a comfortable 80 degrees on an early August evening when the San Jose Jazz Summer Fest kicked off, its…
Andrea Motis recently taught and performed at Stanford University in California.
Aug 17, 2018 3:30 PM
The creative seeds that 23-year-old trumpeter and vocalist Andrea Motis has been planting since her days as a teen…
Bassist Greg Cohen (from left), trumpeter Dave Douglas, drummer Joey Baron and saxophonist John Zorn perform as Masada at Jazz Em Agosto in Lisbon, Portugal.
Aug 10, 2018 8:55 AM
This annual festival in Lisbon, Portugal, long programmed by Rui Neves, consistently has offered one of Europe’s most…
Melissa Aldana performs with Artemis on Sunday, Aug. 4 on the Fort Stage at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island.
Aug 9, 2018 9:00 AM
An intense and unrelenting rainstorm pummeled Rhode Island all day Saturday, taking some of the luster off the 2018…
Singer Angélique Kidjo performs portions of Talking Heads’ Remain In Light on Aug. 6 at Ravinia in Highland Park, Illinois.
Aug 8, 2018 9:00 AM
Angélique Kidjo traversed continents before she heard Talking Heads’ Remain In Light. But her Aug. 6 concert at…
Ethan Iverson performs at Umbria Jazz in Perugia, Italy, which ran July 13-22.
Aug 1, 2018 9:00 AM
What keeps Umbria Jazz in the upper echelon of the world’s festival scene is its inspired balance of elements. Its…
Yussef Dayes leads a troupe July 22 at the Brighton Dome in Brighton, United Kingdom, during Jazz re:fest.
Jul 31, 2018 9:00 AM
Since 2003, Jazz re:freshed has been a major catalyst in the UK’s jazz regeneration. If you’re a rising artist with…
Van Morrison performs at Moldejazz in Molde, Norway.
Jul 30, 2018 9:00 AM
Molde is a small stop on the Norwegian fjord-viewing cruise-ship route. But July 16-21, under skies that never fully…
En Corps performs at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival in Kongsberg, Norway.
Jul 24, 2018 9:00 AM
The generous support the Norwegian state funnels into the arts long has reaped palpable benefits. For a country that is…
