Feb 16, 2018 9:35 AM
Premiere: Hear a Track From Rollins’ ‘Way Out West’ Reissue
Sixty years ago, the stereo version of saxophonist Sonny Rollins’ Way Out West was released.
On the album, which…
The mono version of Sonny Rollins’ Way Out West was issued in 1957, with the stereo version of the album coming out the following year. A reissued set marks the latter’s 60th anniversary.
Feb 16, 2018 9:35 AM
Sixty years ago, the stereo version of saxophonist Sonny Rollins’ Way Out West was released.
On the album, which…
Leon “Ndugu” Chancler at the Jazz Education Network conference in San Diego on Jan. 16, 2015.
Feb 15, 2018 10:49 AM
In tribute to drummer Ndugu Chancler, who passed away on Feb. 3, below is the feature ‘Like Royalty,’ which was…
Nolatet’s No Revenge Necessary is due out April 27 on Royal Potato Family.
Feb 15, 2018 9:51 AM
The boozy “Black Sheep” is the lead single off Nolatet’s pending full-length, No Revenge Necessary. Its video debuts…
Soul singer Mavis Staples is set to headline the 2018 Chicago Blues Festival.
Feb 14, 2018 12:36 PM
Mavis Staples tops the bill for this year’s Chicago Blues Festival at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park.
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Pianist Vijay Iyer performed in a variety of settings, including in this sextet, during a four-day showcase at SFJAZZ in January.
Feb 14, 2018 9:48 AM
Pianist, composer, bandleader and educator Vijay Iyer returned to San Francisco late in January for the second time in…
Adam Nussbaum’s new Sunnyside release is titled The Lead Belly Project.
Feb 13, 2018 10:17 AM
For four decades, drummer Adam Nussbaum has been a reliably swinging fixture on the scene, providing the syncopated…
Bassist Eddie Gomez (left), drummer Jack DeJohnette and pianist Bill Evans made a few recordings and played live in Summer 1968 while in Germany.
Feb 12, 2018 4:57 PM
After getting done with the new Netflix feature A Futile and Stupid Gesture, which features a fictionalized Chevy Chase…
The Marcin Wasilewsksi Trio is set to play the Polish Night showcase at jazzahead! in Bremen, Germany, on April 19. The Atom String Quartet, Monika Borzym, Joanna Duda and Power of Horns also are scheduled to perform on the eight-band bill.
Feb 12, 2018 1:47 PM
Since 2006, jazzahead! has helped turn Bremen, Germany, into a place for the jazz world to congregate during a week of…
Roscoe Mitchell performs at Vibrato Grill & Jazz in Los Angeles last week. The composer and saxophonist was there to receive the Founders Award during ASCAP’s Jazz Awards ceremony.
Feb 12, 2018 11:07 AM
Last week amid the million-dollar homes along Los Angeles’ Mulholland Drive, Vibrato Grill & Jazz hosted ASCAP’s Jazz…
AMP Trio is one of the featured performers of the Jazz in Progress: The Next Faces of Jazz series.
Feb 10, 2018 11:18 AM
Journalist, author and arts presenter for more than 40 years, Willard Jenkins’ career has grown out of a serious love…
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