Feb 28, 2023 12:45 PM
Preview: ‘Children of Bronzeville’ Song Cycle
In honor of Black History Month and Samara Joy’s Grammy Awards success winning for Best New Artist and Jazz Vocal…
Joy performs the track “Dekoven” on Children of Bronzeville.
Feb 28, 2023 12:45 PM
In honor of Black History Month and Samara Joy’s Grammy Awards success winning for Best New Artist and Jazz Vocal…
“There’s a lot of creative space between Sinatra and a singer like Kurt Elling, who’s found his own approach,” Marinaro says. “And I believe that’s where I fit in.”
Feb 28, 2023 12:31 PM
Every jazz musician faces challenges in gaining exposure for their music — especially without the support of a major…
“Even if we have no budget or a low budget, we persist,” John Beasley writes about producing jazz recordings. “If we are given the key to the kingdom, we blitz!”
Feb 28, 2023 12:30 PM
My recording career as a solo artist has been predominantly in the jazz genre, with 15 such albums to my name. Budgets…
Author Aidan Levy was able to pack much detail into his account of Rollins’ rich life and its connection to jazz’s future and past.
Feb 21, 2023 11:45 AM
Clocking in at 700-plus pages, Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins (Hachette) is a well-written,…
Trombone Shorty’s summer tour will begin in June with four performances on the East Coast.
Feb 21, 2023 11:36 AM
Trombone Shorty has announced a major tour for this summer. The headlining run will begin in June with four…
Rempis started his Aerophonic Records label in 2013.
Feb 21, 2023 11:23 AM
Although he operates in a musical milieu that treasures spontaneity, agility and invention as much as anything else,…
“I think in small chunks and just get done today what needs to be done for tomorrow,” Cervini says.
Feb 21, 2023 11:17 AM
Time management carries multiple meanings for Ernesto Cervini. For one thing, the 40-year-old, Toronto-based drummer…
Burt Bacharach with Carol Bayer Sagar and Miles Davis in 1984.
Feb 14, 2023 11:26 AM
Burt Bacharach, who died in Los Angeles at age 94 on Feb. 8, was among the last of a small, oddly isolated island of…
Avreeayl Ra (left) with Ed Wilkerson during a recent Elastic Arts’ Homeroom series show in Chicago.
Feb 14, 2023 10:54 AM
Avreeayl Ra Amen, to put it mildly, is a stalwart of the Chicago scene and the creative music stratosphere…
The inaugural class of the Next Jazz Legacy, from left: Kalia Vandever, Anastassiya Petrova, Ivanna Cuesta Gonzalez, Keyanna Hutchinson, Loke Risberg, Alexis Lombre and Lexi Hamner.
Feb 14, 2023 10:47 AM
As the Next Jazz Legacy — an initiative created to provide a wide-ranging year-long apprenticeship program to support…
