May 21, 2018 9:10 AM
Amid Renaissance, Hailu Mergia Keenly Aware of Time
Hailu Mergia is hardly a household name. Still, he’s making one of the grandest and most inspiring comebacks in…
During the 1960s and 1970s, multi-instrumentalist Hailu Mergia was a star in Ethiopia as a member of the Walias Band.
May 21, 2018 9:10 AM
Hailu Mergia is hardly a household name. Still, he’s making one of the grandest and most inspiring comebacks in…
Simba Baumgartner performs May 5 at Town Hall in New York during the 12th Django A GoGo.
May 18, 2018 11:01 AM
In the span of five days in May, two major Django Reinhardt tributes took place in Manhattan, drawing hordes of…
2017’s Circles Of Chimes is Marius Neset’s most recent recording for the ACT label.
May 18, 2018 9:36 AM
Marius Neset, a Norway-born saxophonist who records for the ACT label, is set for his first North American tour.
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Chicago pianist Charles Joseph Smith says War Of The Martian Ghosts, which he began composing in the ’90s, was inspired by saxophonist Caroline Davis, the film Mars Attacks! and techniques of minimalist composers.
May 18, 2018 9:24 AM
Pianist Charles Joseph Smith always has used music to challenge limitations. When this world offered him only scant…
Bernard “Pretty” Purdie returns with his first album, Cool Down, in almost a decade.
May 17, 2018 12:52 PM
Drummer Bernard “Pretty” Purdie has issued his first album in almost a decade—Cool Down (Sugar Road…
Emma-Jean Thackray began her life as a musician in a Yorkshire brass band.
May 17, 2018 9:20 AM
Emma-Jean Thackray built her new record, Ley Lines, in the upstairs studio of her cozy and colorful South London flat,…
Leo P joins Grace Kelly in the new video for “Fish & Chips,” a cut of Kelly’s GO Time: Brooklyn.
May 17, 2018 9:18 AM
GO Time: Brooklyn, saxophonist Grace Kelly’s new video album out May 31, fully embraces the way musicians are making…
Lakecia Benjamin’s new album is titled Rise Up.
May 16, 2018 3:51 PM
Because of the music’s sheer ebullience, it’s sometimes hard to comprehend the somber inspiration that fuels alto…
Charles Lloyd performs at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on April 28.
May 15, 2018 9:52 AM
When all the gumbo’s been digested following seven days of music at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, it…
Bassist and ASCAP board member Marcus Miller (left) and music director Paul Mirkovich take part in a panel discussion at the Loews Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles during the organization’s recent “I Create Music” Expo.
May 14, 2018 9:12 AM
Three years ago, Marcus Miller got a phone call from one of the many music legends he’s worked with over the years,…
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