Dec 3, 2018 9:00 AM
Dongfeng Liu Ties Together Disparate Strands of Music
Dongfeng Liu was born and raised in China, but always felt a deep affinity for the music of the Caribbean. On the…
Dongfeng Liu’s new album merges musical traditions from different cultures.
Dec 3, 2018 9:00 AM
Dongfeng Liu was born and raised in China, but always felt a deep affinity for the music of the Caribbean. On the…
Marcus Strickland said he’s considered recording an album of work composed around bass clarinet. The reedist’s album with Twi-Life, People Of The Sun (Blue Note), is out now.
Nov 30, 2018 9:00 AM
Before Marcus Strickland launched into music from his new album, People Of The Sun (Blue Note), during a Nov. 10…
Andrew Bernstein, who also performs with Baltimore avant-rock act Horse Lords, has issued a solo saxophone recording, An Exploded View Of Time (Hausu Mountain).
Nov 29, 2018 9:00 AM
Baltimore-based multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bernstein delivers a truly unique and transcendent solo recording with An…
The book Art Kane: Harlem 1958 explores the origin of one of the most famous photos in jazz history and includes this version, identifying the 57 musicians.
Nov 28, 2018 11:00 AM
Many jazz fans have seen the iconic image, but few know its complete backstory. On Aug. 12, 1958, graphic designer and…
Photographer Jack Bradley captured intimate moments of Louis Armstrong’s life between 1959 and 1971, the year of his death. Here, Armstrong (left) laughs with Miles Davis.
Nov 28, 2018 9:00 AM
For about two years, the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens, New York, has been translating thousands of physical…
ECM founder Manfred Eicher writes that he saw new possibilities in the improvised music of the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
Nov 27, 2018 10:21 AM
In the comprehensive, 296-page booklet that accompanies ECM’s 21-CD box set Art Ensemble Of Chicago And Associated…
Francesco Martinelli gives a presentation on his new book, The History of European Jazz, at the 2018 Jazz Fest Sarajevo in November.
Nov 27, 2018 10:14 AM
During late October and early November, journalist and author Francesco Martinelli—who serves as Director of the…
Alina Bzhezhinska currently is at work on a project that honors the music of Dorothy Ashby, another harpist who worked within the jazz idiom.
Nov 27, 2018 9:00 AM
Hailing from a firmly classical background, it was in part a discovery of Alice Coltrane’s work that helped steer…
Omara Portuondo performs at the Dominican Republic Jazz Festival.
Nov 26, 2018 4:00 PM
It’s not uncommon for contemporary jazz players to express the need for jazz to be taken to a new, younger generation…
John Legend is one of 21 artists whose new holiday albums are reviewed in our Yuletide Music Roundup.
Nov 26, 2018 11:55 AM
DownBeat offers cool gifts for everyone on your shopping list. Our 2018 Holiday Gift Guide is filled with books, vinyl…
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