Oct 7, 2021 5:17 PM
Premiere: Kenny Garrett’s ‘Joe Hen’s Waltz’
“Joe Hen’s Waltz” is alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett’s contribution to Relief, an album to benefit the Jazz…
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…
Giveton Gelin, the 2019 Rising Stars winner in North America
Sep 28, 2021 11:58 AM
While the live music industry is slowly recovering from the pandemic, the LetterOne Rising Stars Jazz Award is once…
Ledisi takes on the challenge of singing the music of Nina Simone and making it her own.
Sep 21, 2021 11:33 AM
Thirteen might be an unfortunate number for some, but for multihyphenate vocalist Ledisi, it proved to be verifiably…
Ravi Coltrane says that Orrin Evans, above, “can reach that spirit.”
Sep 21, 2021 11:27 AM
On an early summer night in newly vaccinated New York, the Blue Note was packed with cheering clubgoers. And pianist…
