May 7, 2019 9:00 AM
Johnathan Blake Always Has Been ‘Focused on Rhythm’
It’s a biting-cold January day in Manhattan.
The wind howls around corners and between the buildings with…
Johnathan Blake takes musical cues from his late father, John Blake Jr., a violinist who performed with McCoy Tyner and Archie Shepp.
May 7, 2019 9:00 AM
It’s a biting-cold January day in Manhattan.
The wind howls around corners and between the buildings with…
Janning Trumann 6 performs at jazzahead!, a festival and trade fair in Bremen, Germany, which ran April 25-28.
May 6, 2019 9:00 AM
On a train traveling from Hamburg to Bremen, Germany, a Scott Joplin rag tumbles out of a passenger’s mobile phone,…
For Wynton Marsalis, developing a strategy to translate mythology into music for the film Bolden required some self-analysis, if not soul-searching.
May 3, 2019 9:00 AM
Shrouded in mystery, Buddy Bolden’s life has proved more than a match for most of its would-be chroniclers.…
Vocalist Lizz Wright performs April 30 at Arts Centre Melbourne’s Hamer Hall in Australia.
May 2, 2019 9:00 AM
Acknowledgments of Australia’s indigenous Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were peppered throughout the…
For Move On: A Sondheim Adventure, vocalist Cyrille Aimée selected a bevy of Stephen Sondheim compositions she felt resonated with her own experiences.
May 1, 2019 9:00 AM
As she sat in a rocking chair sipping tea on the front porch of her New Orleans apartment on a recent rainy morning,…
Jane Monheit performs April 30 in Melbourne, Australia, during International Jazz Day.
Apr 30, 2019 10:38 AM
The seventh annual International Jazz Day is set to host the All-Star Global Concert at the Melbourne Arts Centre’s…
Tom Rainey performs at the 2016 unerhört! Festival in Zürich, Switzerland.
Apr 30, 2019 9:00 AM
Drummer and bandleader Tom Rainey isn’t stuck. He’s not jaded and doesn’t come across like he’s taking himself…
Ravi Coltrane (left), Drew Gress, Ralph Alessi and Mark Ferber perform Jan. 11 at Le Poisson Rouge in New York.
Apr 29, 2019 3:10 PM
Trumpeter Ralph Alessi’s third album for ECM, the post-bop, neoclassical, subtly disjunctive Imaginary Friends,…
Frank Caruso (1948–2019)
Apr 25, 2019 8:59 AM
Chicago-based pianist and educator Frank Caruso died suddenly on April 22 at a relative’s home in Cary, Illinois. He…
Since the 1980s, London-based DJ and record label founder Gilles Peterson has been a force in music. The first installment of his We Our Here festival is set to run Aug. 15–18 in Abbots Ripton, Cambridgeshire, U.K.
Apr 25, 2019 1:55 AM
Being a curator has become a defining ethos for the 21st century. With digital platforms bombarding us with choice, a…
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