Oct 15, 2020 9:00 AM
Drummer Yussef Dayes Wants A Challenge
“If you’re not working with people that are pushing you,” said drummer Yussef Dayes, “then it’s missing…
Yussef Dayes is among the 25 artists DownBeat thinks will help shape jazz in the decades to come.
Oct 15, 2020 9:00 AM
“If you’re not working with people that are pushing you,” said drummer Yussef Dayes, “then it’s missing…
Theo Croker is among the 25 artists DownBeat thinks will help shape jazz in the decades to come.
Oct 14, 2020 9:00 AM
Trumpeter Theo Croker is tired of being boxed in as a jazz musician. He expressed that sentiment while also…
Charles McPherson researched what music at the time of King Solomon might have sounded like for the saxophonist’s latest recording, Jazz Dance Suites (Chazz Music).
Oct 13, 2020 8:58 AM
In the course of a career that has found him performing with the likes of Charles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie and Wynton…
Vocalist Kurt Elling is set to stream a performance on Friday.
Oct 12, 2020 8:55 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Recently unearthed trio recordings of Bob James from 1965 find the keyboardist and composer working in a surprising mode.
Oct 9, 2020 9:00 AM
Ever since his first forays into improvisation in the late 1950s and early ’60s, Bob James has considered the piano…
Lakecia Benjamin is among 25 artists DownBeat predicts will help shape the future of jazz.
Oct 8, 2020 9:00 AM
Lakecia Benjamin’s approach to jazz is influenced by the belief that Black music of all genres has a shared…
Melissa Aldana (left), Pablo Menares and Kush Abadey perform Oct. 3 in Central Park as a part of the Walk With The Wind performance series.
Oct 7, 2020 2:58 PM
Still in the throes of the pandemic, the world’s been starved for jazz in 3D, something to distract us from the…
Vocalist Luba Mason’s Triangle was released Oct. 23.
Oct 7, 2020 9:00 AM
Vocalist Luba Mason is as comfortable acting on stage as she is singing in a vocal booth, and equally adept at…
Fabian Almazan is among the 25 artists DownBeat thinks will help shape jazz in the decades to come.
Oct 7, 2020 9:00 AM
Pianist Fabian Almazan has a distinct recollection of an incident that took place years ago at the Village Vanguard,…
Vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant is among the 2020 MacArthur Fellows.
Oct 6, 2020 1:52 PM
After receiving a Doris Duke Award in September, vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant has been named a MacArthur Fellow,…
