May 17, 2022 11:41 AM
Ornette Coleman’s The Shape of Jazz Has Arrived
One purpose for the “Ornette Coleman: The Shape of Jazz to Come” event at BAM on the evening of May 1 as part of…
Denardo Coleman/Ornette Expressions conducted by Awadagin Pratt.
May 17, 2022 11:41 AM
One purpose for the “Ornette Coleman: The Shape of Jazz to Come” event at BAM on the evening of May 1 as part of…
“I have no concept of what I did before! That’s irrelevant,” Ibrahim said. “I can’t change anything. I can’t change the past, I can’t change the future, I can only deal with what is now.”
May 9, 2022 2:52 PM
It is 2022. The pandemic lingers, yet life is moving forward in unexpected ways.
The necessary move to video…
The big band cause was in-house at jazzahead! this year, including impressive work by the Dutch leader/composer/pianist Kathrine Windfeld.
May 9, 2022 2:44 PM
When it comes to major, all-purpose jazz conference/festivals across the Atlantic, all roads have led to Bremen for the…
“I want to be able to get things out quicker, where what I’m releasing is closer to what I’m actually working on,” Grdina said.
May 9, 2022 2:32 PM
Vancouver-born guitarist Gordon Grdina remembers the moment, at age 13, that he first heard the sound of the Middle…
“To me, rhythm is not the notes; it’s the space between the notes,” the 25-year-old Flood explained.
May 9, 2022 2:27 PM
Miles Davis famously advised: “Don’t play what is there, play what is not there.” Alexander Flood incorporates…
O’Connell said, “Jazz combined the sophistication I was looking for in music with the earth and the swing. I was determined to pursue it and develop myself as a jazz pianist.”
May 9, 2022 2:09 PM
Best known as an inspired hybridizer of modernist jazz and Afrodiasporic idioms as an improviser and composer, Bill…
Trombonist Craig Harris of New York is among this year’s class of JJA Jazz Heroes.
May 3, 2022 11:39 AM
The Jazz Journalists Association has announced its 2022 class of Jazz Heroes — 28 activists and advocates from 26…
Charles Lloyd and the Marvels performing at Jazz Middelheim in Belgium.
Apr 28, 2022 5:42 PM
This year’s summer jazz festival season is cause for special, and excessive, celebration. The entire jazz ecosystem…
Quinence Lynell, left, and Dee Dee Bridgewater perform at SummerStage in New York.
Apr 28, 2022 5:00 PM
It’s been awhile since many jazz events were allowed to go live, unhindered by the threat of pandemic-induced…
Matt Burchard, literally, takes the music to the people at the Vail Jazz Festival.
Apr 28, 2022 4:58 PM
With 2020 mostly a lost year and 2021 largely transitional, jazz festivals held west of the mighty Mississippi River…
