Professor Longhair, left, with Alligator Records founder Bruce Iglauer in 1978.
Oct 11, 2021 12:07 PM
Farsighted and unsentimental, Bruce Iglauer has spent five decades elevating Chicago-based Alligator Records above…
Pianist Nik Bärtsch performs at Festival Jazzkaar.
Oct 11, 2021 11:45 AM
The last time that Swiss pianist Nik Bärtsch appeared at Festival Jazzkaar in 2018, half of his four-piece band called…
Kirke Kardja performs as a member of the Karja-Renard-Wandinger Trio at EJN.
Oct 11, 2021 11:30 AM
Perhaps no musical tradition is more invested in direct interaction and spontaneous give-and-take than jazz, practices…
Kenny Garrett
Oct 7, 2021 5:17 PM
“Joe Hen’s Waltz” is alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett’s contribution to Relief, an album to benefit the Jazz…
The great jazz shrine of The Village Vanguard in New York reopened in September.
Oct 5, 2021 12:48 PM
The tables were slightly fewer in number. The air filtration system was new. But when the Village Vanguard reopened in…
25 years later, the seminal recording still matters.
Oct 5, 2021 11:46 AM
When World Circuit Records released Buena Vista Social Club’s eponymous album in 1997, there were no grand…
Bibb delivers an intimate one-man show in Tales From A Blues Brother, which premieres Oct. 8 on Qwest TV.
Oct 5, 2021 11:31 AM
On Friday, Oct. 8, Qwest TV by Quincy Jones will premiere Tales From A Blues Brother, a one-man performance of spoken…
“When I go up on that stand, the only thing I’m thinking of is music.” —Dr. Lonnie Smith
Sep 29, 2021 12:10 PM
Dr. Lonnie Smith, one of the greatest musicians to ever touch the Hammond B-3 organ, died Sept. 28 at home in Ft.…
Robert Glasper
Sep 28, 2021 12:16 PM
Keyboardist, composer and jazz party starter Robert Glasper begins a jam-packed, star-studded, 33-day residency at the…
Artist-in-resdience Dee Dee Bridgewater performs with pianist Bill Charlap.
Sep 28, 2021 12:01 PM
The heroic Detroit Jazz Festival pivoted again this year, two weeks before a live festival kick-off scheduled for Labor…
