Jul 26, 2022 2:15 AM
James Brandon Lewis: The Sound of the Moment
A recording may become Jazz Album of the Year by epitomizing the sound of the moment or by pointing the direction where…
Jul 26, 2022 2:15 AM
A recording may become Jazz Album of the Year by epitomizing the sound of the moment or by pointing the direction where…
Jul 26, 2022 2:10 AM
Until last year, John Coltrane was widely thought to have performed his masterpiece A Love Supreme only once live, on…
Jul 19, 2022 12:54 PM
Sean Jones is riding a career high right now. And he’s doing it in a very modern way. In today’s jazz world, those…
Jul 19, 2022 12:40 PM
Attending Terri Lyne Carrington’s three-day invitation series at the 42nd annual Festival International de Jazz de…
Jul 19, 2022 12:38 PM
Remarkably comprehensive and exhaustively researched, Philip Watson’s Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer (Faber Books)…
Jul 19, 2022 12:36 PM
On Nov. 7, 1966, a 31-year-old Swiss fan of cutting-edge jazz made the short trip from his home in Basel across the…
Jul 12, 2022 2:25 PM
Many of us at DownBeat have found ourselves stuck at home lately, wondering what’s happening elsewhere — especially…
Jul 12, 2022 1:42 PM
Pianist and composer Lisa Hilton is living an indie life where life is beautiful. Since 2001, with her debut album…
Jul 12, 2022 1:36 PM
Israeli-born saxophonist Eli Degibri first began turning heads stateside after winning the 1999 Thelonious Monk…
Jul 12, 2022 1:31 PM
On July 5, a street sign co-named Onaje Allan Gumbs Way was erected at the intersection of De Kruif Place and Dreiser…