Jan 11, 2018 11:07 AM
Roy Hargrove’s Rousing Chicago Residency
Roy Hargrove has been ringing in the New Year at Joe and Wayne Segal’s Jazz Showcase for many years.
“About 20…
Bandleader Roy Hargrove recently finished a two-week stint at Chicago’s Jazz Showcase.
Jan 11, 2018 11:07 AM
Roy Hargrove has been ringing in the New Year at Joe and Wayne Segal’s Jazz Showcase for many years.
“About 20…
Nicole Mitchell is this year’s artist-in-residence at Winter Jazzfest in New York.
Jan 10, 2018 10:28 AM
For flautist and composer Nicole Mitchell, Gwendolyn Brooks is a “huge inspiration.”
Aside from her prolific…
Jazzmeia Horn channeled Betty Carter and Sarah Vaughan at the Umbria Jazz festival during December.
Jan 9, 2018 11:25 AM
Just after twilight Dec. 28 on the ground floor of the 14th-century Palazzo del Popolo, when the last note of the…
Harold Mabern (from left), Wes Montgomery, Arthur Harper and Jimmy Lovelace perform at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, France on March 27, 1965.
Jan 8, 2018 2:46 PM
Guitarist Wes Montgomery’s legendary 1965 concert in Paris has been released under many titles, yet it had never been…
The Cuneiform Records team poses with a few copies of DownBeat magazine.
Jan 5, 2018 10:42 AM
Cuneiform Records, a Silver Springs, Maryland, label that’s released hundreds of jazz and experimental albums…
Alicia Hall Moran and Thomas Flippin perform at Gavin Brown’s enterprise in New York.
Jan 4, 2018 3:58 PM
Almost nothing on Here Today, the second full-length from vocalist Alicia Hall Moran, comes as expected. The opening…
Drummer and percussionist Milford Graves has embraced unorthodox styles in both jazz and martial arts. A new documentary about his work has set its international debut.
Jan 3, 2018 4:20 PM
The new film Milford Graves Full Mantis is as much a visual poem as it is a documentary.
The film—which examines not…
Roswell Rudd (1935–2017)
Jan 2, 2018 2:21 PM
The jazz world recently bid farewell to trombonist Roswell Rudd, singer Keely Smith and vocalist/educator Kevin…
The original lineup of The Bad Plus—Reid Anderson (from left), David King and Ethan Iverson—played its final show on Dec. 31 at New York’s Village Vanguard.
Jan 2, 2018 11:21 AM
New Year’s Eve was an end for many things; and so it was for The Bad Plus.
After 17 years, pianist Ethan Iverson was…
The new album by pianist Martial Solal (left) and saxophonist Dave Liebman is Masters In Bordeaux.
Jan 1, 2018 6:48 PM
By the time Dave Liebman first made his mark in the early 1970s, as the saxophonist and flutist in Miles Davis’…
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