Apr 8, 2020 9:00 AM
The Culmination of Drummer Gard Nilssen’s Dreams
More than a few bands in the past have featured two drummers: The J.B.’s, The Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers Band…
Gard Nilssen performs with his Accoustic Unity ensemble during the 2019 jazzahead! conference in Bremen, Germany.
Apr 8, 2020 9:00 AM
More than a few bands in the past have featured two drummers: The J.B.’s, The Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers Band…
A handful of cultural institutions are opening up their vaults to provide video footage during the pandemic, with Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center posting hours of music.
Apr 7, 2020 8:47 AM
Like newspapers lifting their paywalls during the pandemic, some cultural institutions are making their archives…
Apr 6, 2020 1:27 PM
Each year, The Jazz Journalist Association—a nonprofit that supports mediamakers in jazz—offers up a list of…
Goran Ivanovic (left) and Fareed Haque combine myriad idioms within jazz improvisation for IndoBalkan (Delmark).
Apr 6, 2020 8:20 AM
Chicago guitarists Fareed Haque and Goran Ivanovic started working together during the mid 1990s—just after Ivanovic…
Bill Withers, seen here addressing the crowd at Carnegie Hall in New York City on Oct. 1, 2015, died on March 30 at age 81.
Apr 3, 2020 12:56 PM
Singer-songwriter Bill Withers died on March 30 in Los Angeles due to heart complications, according to a family…
Saxophonist Caroline Davis continues teaching through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Apr 3, 2020 8:37 AM
While jazz education has long served as a way to hand down tradition while instilling superlative musicianship, it has…
Saxophonist Walter Smith III (foreground) and guitarist Matthew Stevens have recorded a new album, In Common 2.
Apr 3, 2020 8:26 AM
Saxophonist Walter Smith III and guitarist Matthew Stevens achieved such artistic fulfillment with their 2018 album, In…
John (left) and Bucky Pizzarelli (1926–2020)
Apr 2, 2020 10:41 AM
Acclaimed jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli died on April 1 at age 94. He had suffered health problems, and his son, the…
Lakecia Benjamin’s latest album features compositions by Alice Coltrane and John Coltrane.
Apr 2, 2020 8:31 AM
When saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin finished the fourth song of her set, “Pursuance,” at Le Poisson Rouge in…
Even in his 70s, Duke Ellington was moving forward and keen to win new audiences.
Apr 1, 2020 2:35 PM
Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke once wrote, “Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the…
