Oct 29, 2025 10:49 AM
In Memoriam: Anthony Jackson, 1952–2025
Bassist Anthony Jackson, a consummate accompanist, renowned virtuoso and ubiquitous session player with more than 500…
“Anthony Jackson was one of the most important people to ever pick up and play a bass guitar (correction: as he always said, ‘It’s a six-string contrabass guitar’),” wrote drummer Dave Weckl on Facebook.
Oct 29, 2025 10:49 AM
Bassist Anthony Jackson, a consummate accompanist, renowned virtuoso and ubiquitous session player with more than 500…
Jack DeJohnette boasted a musical resume that was as long as it was fearsome.
Oct 28, 2025 10:47 AM
Jack DeJohnette, a bold and resourceful drummer and NEA Jazz Master who forged a unique vocabulary on the kit over his…
Sullivan Fortner (left), Tyler Bullock and Esteban Castro, honorees of the inaugural Gilmore Larry J. Bell Jazz Artist Awards.
Oct 21, 2025 11:54 AM
Midway through a trio tour last March en route to Atlanta for a concert in Spivey Hall, pianist Sullivan Fortner took a…
“I’m self-taught, an autodidact as they call it,” said composer Gregg Hill.
Oct 21, 2025 11:24 AM
At a recent performance at the Dirty Dog Jazz Cafe in the Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, bassist Rodney…
Next Jazz Legacy is a national apprenticeship and mentorship program designed to elevate emerging jazz improvisers.
Oct 21, 2025 11:21 AM
New Music USA and the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice have announced the opening of applications for the…
Craig Taborn joins recent jazz-musician MacArthur Fellows Tomeka Reid (2022), Cécile McLorin Salvant (2020), Mary Halvorson (2019) and Tyshawn Sorey (2017).
Oct 14, 2025 2:34 PM
Pianist, keyboardist and composer Craig Taborn has received many accolades over his 30-plus-year career, but none quite…
Bach improvisers Alan Ferber (left), Jody Redhage Ferber and Mark Ferber.
Oct 14, 2025 2:23 PM
Confluence turns out to be a fatefully apt and multilayered concept and title for the new album released by the Ferbers…
D’Angelo achieved commercial and critical success experimenting with a fusion of jazz, funk, soul, R&B and hip-hop.
Oct 14, 2025 1:47 PM
D’Angelo, a Grammy-winning R&B and neo-soul singer, guitarist and pianist who exerted a profound influence on 21st…
Jim McNeely’s singular body of work had a profound and lasting influence on many of today’s top jazz composers in the U.S. and in Europe.
Oct 7, 2025 3:40 PM
Pianist Jim McNeely, one of the most distinguished large ensemble jazz composers of his generation, died Sept. 26 at…
Schubert NOW performs a showcase concert at jazzahead! 2025.
Oct 7, 2025 10:16 AM
Bands can apply until Oct. 8 for one of the 38 coveted concert slots at jazzahead!, the world’s largest jazz…
