Nov 21, 2017 10:46 AM
Roberts Revisits Coltrane’s ‘Crescent’
Say the name “John Coltrane” and what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Probably it’s that majestic tenor…
Pianist Marcus Roberts interprets the music of John Coltrane on a new trio album.
Nov 21, 2017 10:46 AM
Say the name “John Coltrane” and what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Probably it’s that majestic tenor…
Tyshawn Sorey (left) leads a “conduction” performance at this year’s Berlin Jazz Festival.
Nov 20, 2017 11:47 AM
The Berlin Jazz Festival handily accomplished a two-fold mission to preserve its prodigious historical legacy while…
Bassist Dan Berglund (second from let) performs with his bandmates in Tonbruket at Studion Kulturhuset during the Stockholm Jazz Festival on Oct. 7.
Nov 20, 2017 11:08 AM
Born in the remote village of Pilgrimstad, Sweden (population: 386), bassist Dan Berglund is a musical institution on…
Marc Ribot performs at the 2017 Belgrade Jazz Festival.
Nov 17, 2017 1:40 PM
The Belgrade Jazz Festival is the ideal destination for after-midnight partying. Many such weekenders put their…
Snarky Puppy’s 2018 itinerary includes a show at Carnegie Hall, a festival in Miami and an extensive U.S. tour.
Nov 17, 2017 8:32 AM
Snarky Puppy, which was voted Jazz Group of the Year in the 2017 DownBeat Readers Poll, will begin its 2018 U.S. tour…
Craft Recordings will release a limited-edition box set that includes all five of the 10-inch vinyl LPs Thelonious Monk recorded for the label, spanning the period 1952–’54.
Nov 16, 2017 12:39 PM
The 10-inch vinyl LP is relatively rare nowadays, but fans of the format—and of pianist-composer Thelonious…
Romero Lubambo (seated, left), George Garzone, Sean Jones and Marco Pignataro perform at the 2017 Dominican Republic Jazz Festival. (Bassist Nilson Matta is partially obscured.)
Nov 15, 2017 2:09 PM
Sun and cerulean sky rule the azure surf, as kite-riders curl arabesques and lively merengue jazz drifts over the…
Trumpeter Diogo Duque (left), saxophonist Ricardo Toscano and bassist Nelson Cascais onstage at the Hot Clube de Portugal in Lisbon, Portugal.
Nov 15, 2017 11:35 AM
Nobody knows exactly when jazz first arrived in Portugal, but what we do know the first person to promote jazz in…
Saxophonist Gilad Atzmon has released a new book, Being In Time–A Post-political Manifesto (Skyscraper)
Nov 15, 2017 11:32 AM
Saxophonist Gilad Atzmon, a former Israeli citizen living in London since 1994, remains a veritable planetary citizen,…
Saxophonist Lee Konitz is an NEA Jazz Master.
Nov 14, 2017 10:57 AM
It’s a crisp Monday afternoon in October on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, just a few days after saxophone legend Lee…
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