Feb 4, 2021 8:37 AM
Lesser-Known Bernstein Works Spotlit By SJMO
“Jazz is a very big word,” composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein assured us when he explained jazz to America in the…
Charlie Young conducts the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra.
Feb 4, 2021 8:37 AM
“Jazz is a very big word,” composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein assured us when he explained jazz to America in the…
Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith is among several jazz world figures to become a 2021 United States Artists Fellow.
Feb 3, 2021 2:00 PM
Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, saxophonist Edward “Kidd” Jordan and cellist Tomeka Reid are among the 2021 United…
Sarah Elizabeth Charles and Jarrett Cherner, who are married, collaborated on a new album titled Tone.
Feb 3, 2021 8:46 AM
As an aspiring jazz singer, the teenage Sarah Elizabeth Charles wanted to be Sarah Vaughan. But after writing a lot of…
Vocalist Catherine Russell is set to host “Family Concert: Legacies Of Excellence” on Feb. 20 as part of Jazz At Lincoln Center’s 2021 Spring virtual concert season.
Feb 2, 2021 1:27 PM
Jazz At Lincoln Center, after provisionally closing its performance spaces in 2020 because of the pandemic, has planned…
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram
Feb 2, 2021 8:35 AM
If ever there were a time for the blues, it was 2020. In the United States, more than 300,000 people died, and many…
Ashley Kahn and Brandee Younger are set to discuss the legacy of Alice Coltrane on Wednesday.
Feb 1, 2021 8:13 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Aum Fidelity has issued a 10-disc box set of previously unreleased music by bassist William Parker, titled Migration Of Silence Into And Out Of The Tone World.
Jan 29, 2021 8:26 AM
A tangle of connections fosters the bounty of William Parker’s career. The bassist—who’s released a 10-album set…
On For Such A Time As This, pianist Eric Reed explores a bevy of musical styles, including gospel.
Jan 28, 2021 9:00 AM
In 1966, pianist Glenn Gould sat down at the BBC to discuss, among other things, his approach to interpreting classical…
Guitarist Nir Felder (left), a faculty member at The New School, delivers online instruction to student Evan Macaluso.
Jan 27, 2021 9:00 AM
For jazz students enrolled in fall classes at The New School in New York City, the “new normal” during the pandemic…
This is Rez Abbasi’s first Blindfold Test.
Jan 26, 2021 8:41 AM
By the time he topped the category Rising Star–Guitar in the 2013 DownBeat Critics Poll, Rez Abbasi already had…
