Aug 15, 2019 10:01 AM
Premiere: Chris Lightcap’s ‘Through Birds, Through Fire,’ a Tune Off the Upcoming ‘SuperBigmouth’
Chris Lightcap’s compositional and performative dexterity stretches back to the ’90s, when he began working with…
Bassist Chris Lightcap (third from right) merges his two working ensembles for SuperBigmouth, which is set for release Oct. 4 on Pyroclastic Records.
Aug 15, 2019 10:01 AM
Chris Lightcap’s compositional and performative dexterity stretches back to the ’90s, when he began working with…
Norah Jones is among the artists who pay tribute to Joni Mitchell on a new album and DVD.
Aug 15, 2019 9:00 AM
The two sold-out concerts staged in November at Los Angeles’ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, both in honor of…
Bassist Michael Janisch helms Whirlwind Records and is set to release his latest leader date, Worlds Collide.
Aug 14, 2019 9:00 AM
First and foremost, Michael Janisch is a bassist. He’s about to drop his third solo album after having worked as a…
Before Jazz Samba hit in 1962, saxophonist Stan Getz appeared to be on a different trajectory.
Aug 13, 2019 9:00 AM
It’s late in fall of 1961, and tenor saxophonist Stan Getz is playing The Village Gate in New York. It’s before the…
Mark Walker’s new leader album is titled You Get What You Give.
Aug 12, 2019 9:00 AM
One reason that reedist Paquito D’Rivera likes playing with Mark Walker is that the Grammy-winning drummer…
Sam Rivers (1923–2011)
Aug 9, 2019 9:27 AM
There’s a photo of Sam Rivers at the White House, most likely from the so-called “White House Jazz Festival” on…
John Scofield (left), Jack DeJohnette, Franco Ambrosetti, Uri Caine and Scott Colley at the recording session for Long Waves
Aug 8, 2019 9:00 AM
In a 1987 interview, Miles Davis sat down with a German journalist and discussed the differences between black and…
Joel Ross and Good Vibes celebrate the vinyl release of Kingmaker on Friday, Aug. 2 at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island. Ross—who also played with Makaya McCraven and with the collective In Common—performed three sets in two days during the festival.
Aug 7, 2019 4:02 PM
By the time Paul Gonsalves shook up Fort Adams with 27 blistering choruses in 1956, the Newport Jazz Festival already…
Saxophonist Hanna Paulsberg (left), vocalist Rohey Taalah and bassist Ellen Andrea Wang perform as Gurls during A l’arme! Festival, which ran July 31-Aug. 3 in Berlin.
Aug 7, 2019 10:40 AM
From its very beginnings jazz has functioned like a stylistic blob, driven by its practitioners to absorb, assimilate…
Trombonist John Fedchock leads a quartet, a sextet and the New York Big Band.
Aug 7, 2019 9:00 AM
John Fedchock has forged a distinctive career fueled by enormous talent, hard work and an entrepreneurial spirit.
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