Trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire performs with the trio Trefoil at this year’s Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Apr 12, 2022 10:48 AM
During the opening concert of this year’s Big Ears Festival, a train roared by just as the Kronos Quartet leaned into…
Jon Batiste delivers a vocal-and-piano version of “Sweet Lorraine” on the Relief album.
Apr 12, 2022 10:43 AM
The word unprecedented was a mainstay of 2020 conversations, and for mostly negative reasons. But the pandemic also…
Jacob Bro performs at the Bergamo Jazz Festival on March 18.
Apr 12, 2022 10:37 AM
The 43rd edition of the Bergamo Jazz Festival was a triumph for its artistic director, Maria Pia de Vito, one of the…
Newly inducted NEA Jazz Masters Stanley Clarke (left), Billy Hart and Donald Harrison Jr. at SFJAZZ Center on March 31.
Apr 5, 2022 4:57 PM
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) formally inducted its four new Jazz Masters on the eve of Jazz Appreciation…
Jon Batiste (center) performs at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards on April 3.
Apr 5, 2022 4:53 PM
Jon Batiste was the big winner at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards, held April 3 at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. The…
Fiedler and crew return for a second batch of rearranged, reharmonized Sesame Street tunes. From left: Michael Sarin, Sean Conly, Fiedler, Steven Bernstein and Jeff Lederer.
Apr 5, 2022 1:29 PM
With Fuzzy And Blue — his second volume of Sesame Street songs following the 2019 release of Open Sesame —…
“In many ways, truth has been stranger than fiction, and that is what I have been feeling,” Gordon says.
Mar 29, 2022 11:45 AM
As a young boy living amid poverty and dysfunction in a home on Staten Island, Jon Gordon clung to the thought that the…
Helfer has long given children and adults lessons in the living room of his home.
Mar 29, 2022 11:38 AM
Blues, boogie, jazz and American roots pianist Erwin Helfer is the unlikely but grateful poster boy for survival of the…
The 2022 NEA Jazz Masters
Mar 29, 2022 11:15 AM
All four of this year’s NEA Jazz Masters honorees — Stanley Clarke, Donald Harrison Jr., Billy Hart and Cassandra…
“I have to continue the conversation and shed light on the fact that Black women have always been undervalued, not protected and not cared for,” Charles says.
Mar 29, 2022 11:09 AM
As a singer, flutist, beat-maker, remixer and conceptualist, Melanie Charles saturates Ya’ll Don’t (Really) Care…
