Aug 24, 2021 12:01 PM
Rising Stars Find Inspiration in the Collective
Editor’s Note: This article was written to commemorate some of the Rising Star winners in DownBeat’s 69th Annual…
Gerald Clayton was named Rising Star Artist of the Year and his trio won Rising Star Jazz Group.
Aug 24, 2021 12:01 PM
Editor’s Note: This article was written to commemorate some of the Rising Star winners in DownBeat’s 69th Annual…
Norah Jones performs live, for the first time since COVID-19, during the JFA Gala on June 30.
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…
Sarah Elizabeth Charles, one of more than 100 artists to receive a Jazz Coalition grant
Aug 24, 2021 11:49 AM
The Jazz Coalition, an artistic and financial support initiative for jazz musicians during the pandemic, has announced…
Carla Bley, the 2021 critics’ choice for the DownBeat Hall of Fame
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…
Yusef Lateef, 2021 Veterans Committee choice for the DownBeat Hall of Fame
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…
Booker Little, 2021 Veterans Committee choice for the DownBeat Hall of Fame
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…
The French Quarter Festival will be back next spring.
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…
Melissa Aldana and Sean Jones work with the NYO Jazz youth orchestra on recording the group’s first full-length album.
Aug 17, 2021 10:25 AM
By her very presence, baritone saxophonist Noa Zebley ― a 17-year-old woman of unassuming personality and modest…
This year’s New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has been canceled. It was scheduled to take place in October.
Aug 9, 2021 10:28 PM
New Orleans musicians reacted with distress and disbelief — along with some relief — to the latest COVID…
Jeremy Pelt’s new book of jazz interviews is Griot: Examining The Lives Of Jazz’s Great Storytellers, Vol. 1.
Aug 9, 2021 10:13 PM
Autobiographical memoirs and oral histories are common categories of jazz literature. Less so is the first-person…
