Feb 7, 2023 12:02 AM
Samara Joy Wins Grammys for Best New Artist, Best New Jazz Vocal Album
Jazz vocalist Samara Joy was crowned Best New Artist during this year’s Grammy Awards on Feb. 5. The deeply emotive…
Samara Joy gives her acceptance speech at the Grammys on Feb. 5.
Feb 7, 2023 12:02 AM
Jazz vocalist Samara Joy was crowned Best New Artist during this year’s Grammy Awards on Feb. 5. The deeply emotive…
Siggi Loch (left) and Andreas Brandis.
Feb 6, 2023 11:57 PM
ACT Records has become one of the most significant European jazz labels during its 30-year existence. As the German…
Russell Gunn was commissioned by the Apollo Theater to compose the music for The Blues And Its People.
Feb 6, 2023 11:54 PM
The Apollo Theater in Harlem continues its 2022–’23 season theme of The Next Movement with The Blues And Its People…
The 1968 New Trier West Jazz Ensemble
Feb 6, 2023 11:40 PM
Like many nouveau-upstarts, jazz had to fight for recognition. Academia frowned on fun, especially when its venues were…
Sloane’s death comes nine months after the release of her final album, Live At Birdland (Club44 Records)
Jan 31, 2023 12:12 PM
Jazz singer Carol Sloane died Jan. 23 at a senior care center in Stoneham, Massachusetts. She was 85. The cause was…
The 2023 Monterey Jazz Festival will be Tim Jackson’s last as artistic director.
Jan 31, 2023 11:51 AM
Tim Jackson, long-time artistic director of the Monterey Jazz Festival, plans to leave his position at the end of…
Dee Dee, Kurt and Lakecia raise the roof.
Jan 31, 2023 11:45 AM
Vocalists Dee Dee Bridgewater and Kurt Elling, saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin, pianist Christian Sands, bassist Yasushi…
The inaugural class of the Next Jazz Legacy, from left: Kalia Vandever, Anastassiya Petrova, Ivanna Cuesta Gonzalez, Keyanna Hutchinson, Loke Risberg, Alexis Lombre and Lexi Hamner.
Jan 31, 2023 11:32 AM
As the Next Jazz Legacy — an initiative created to provide a wide-ranging year-long apprenticeship program to support…
“One of our main goals is to invite people into the music who may not have known they liked jazz,” says Cohen.
Jan 24, 2023 11:59 AM
A pressing question is routinely faced by musicians deprived of live music outlets during COVID times: “What did you…
“In the pantheons of guitar players, Jeff was the chosen one,” said Steve Vai of the late Jeff Beck.
Jan 24, 2023 11:48 AM
One of an iconic triumvirate of ’60s rock guitar gods, along with Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck set the…
