Mar 24, 2026 11:15 AM
Arturo O’Farrill: Of Heroes & Community
In 2015, renowned pianist, bandleader and mover-shaker Arturo O’Farrill released the album Cuba: The Conversation…
“The idea that music is a way to erase denomination, political affiliation, political ideology labels and gender labels is a way to bypass everything,” says O’Farrill. “We get to the currency of love and truth.”
Mar 24, 2026 11:15 AM
In 2015, renowned pianist, bandleader and mover-shaker Arturo O’Farrill released the album Cuba: The Conversation…
The super group bassist Martin Wind assembled to play on Stars, from left: drummer Matt Wilson, clarinetist Anat Cohen, Wind and pianist Kenny Barron.
Mar 24, 2026 11:04 AM
From his native Flensburg, Germany, where he was born in 1968, to establishing a lasting presence on the New York jazz…
The Allstars, from left, Francko Mehrstein, Ludovic Beier, Samson Schmitt, Pierre Blanchard and Antonio Licusati.
Mar 17, 2026 11:21 AM
Django Reinhardt, the seminal Manouche Romani guitarist who electrified pre-War Paris with his hot gypsy jazz…
Anthony Braxton’s evolving compositional systems have shaped generations of improvisers and experimental composers.
Mar 17, 2026 11:11 AM
Composer and multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton will be honored with the 66th Edward MacDowell Medal in recognition…
The historic Young-Quinlan Building at 9th and Nicollet in downtown Minneapolis.
Mar 17, 2026 10:58 AM
Dakota, the internationally recognized Minneapolis music venue known for pairing world-class live performance with…
Skonberg has new music she’ll be bringing to the Midwest Jazz Collective tour from two albums scheduled for release in 2026.
Mar 10, 2026 1:11 PM
Midwest Jazz Collective, a consortium of more than a dozen clubs and presenters dedicated to jazz across Illinois,…
“I was writing music that I felt was really honest,” Rowe says of her new album, “and I wanted to share myself with these players I’ve met in the last five to seven years.”
Mar 10, 2026 1:04 PM
In the press release to Ellen Rowe’s new album Vinton’s Cove (Smokin’ Sleddog), she speaks of it being “a balm…
Hammond came to the blues through the folk boom of the late 1950s and early 1960s, which he experienced firsthand in New York’s Greenwich Village.
Mar 2, 2026 9:58 PM
John P. Hammond (aka John Hammond Jr.), a blues guitarist and singer who was one of the first white American…
Vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater will be among the headliners at this year’s DC JazzFest.
Mar 2, 2026 9:48 PM
The first wave of artists scheduled to perform at the 2026 DC JazzFest have been announced. This year’s headliners…
“I’m very proud of the music that I’ve written so far, but I’ve got a lot more work to do,” says drummer/composer Domo Branch.
Mar 2, 2026 9:37 PM
It’s wholly appropriate that Dominick “Domo” Branch would be doing a video via Zoom during the week of…
