Aug 24, 2021 11:57 AM
Jazz Foundation of America Gala Returns
Midway through the 2021 Jazz Foundation of America Gala on June 30, singer Norah Jones took her seat at the piano, the…
Aug 24, 2021 11:57 AM
Midway through the 2021 Jazz Foundation of America Gala on June 30, singer Norah Jones took her seat at the piano, the…
Aug 24, 2021 11:49 AM
The Jazz Coalition, an artistic and financial support initiative for jazz musicians during the pandemic, has announced…
Aug 17, 2021 10:50 AM
Given the tenor of the times, Carla Bley’s extraordinary career shouldn’t have happened. What were the chances…
Aug 17, 2021 10:43 AM
Yusef Lateef came out of the jazz continuum to pursue a career driven by his curiosity and desire to move beyond…
Aug 17, 2021 10:35 AM
The most wide-ranging article this magazine ever published about trumpeter Booker Little was his obituary. It was the…
Aug 17, 2021 10:28 AM
On the heels of the cancellation of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, the city’s French Quarter Festival has…
Aug 17, 2021 10:25 AM
By her very presence, baritone saxophonist Noa Zebley ― a 17-year-old woman of unassuming personality and modest…
Aug 9, 2021 10:28 PM
New Orleans musicians reacted with distress and disbelief — along with some relief — to the latest COVID…
Aug 9, 2021 10:13 PM
Autobiographical memoirs and oral histories are common categories of jazz literature. Less so is the first-person…
Aug 9, 2021 10:08 PM
“Ladies and gentlemen, good evening!”
Five unremarkable words in most circumstances, they earned a jubilant…