Drummer Gerald Cleaver works with some of today’s most fearless musicians.
Dec 19, 2019 9:00 AM
Drummer Gerald Cleaver unfairly has been pigeonholed as a free-jazz player for much of his career, though his efforts…
Jerome Jennings follows up his 2016 release, The Beast, with Solidarity.
Dec 18, 2019 9:00 AM
Jerome Jennings stays focused on his goals. After getting his start in his home state of Ohio, he earned degrees from…
Dave Brubeck (1920–2012)
Dec 17, 2019 9:00 AM
The lesson was simple: Death is not the end, particularly when it involves a great, palpable legacy. The artistic…
Guitarist Nguyên Lê’s latest album is Overseas.
Dec 16, 2019 9:00 AM
Since his crucial 1996 recording, Tales From Viêt-Nam, electric guitar virtuoso Nguyên Lê has married the music of…
Guitarist Bill Frisell is now based in New York, following nearly three decades in Seattle.
Dec 13, 2019 9:00 AM
The latest reminder that guitar icon Bill Frisell remains a road warrior at 68 came in late September, when he…
Organist Joey DeFrancesco recently earned a Grammy nomination for his album In The Key Of The Universe.
Dec 12, 2019 4:24 PM
In the wake of his recent Grammy nomination, Joey DeFrancesco has released a live music video for his composition…
T.K. Blue became music director and arranger for pianist Randy Weston in 1989.
Dec 12, 2019 9:00 AM
T.K. Blue never will forget the first time he heard pianist Randy Weston perform. Especially because when he found…
Davina Lozier has traveled the world with her band, The Vagabonds.
Dec 11, 2019 10:03 AM
Having made tour stops in Tel Aviv, Budapest and São Paulo, the Minneapolis-based band Davina & The Vagabonds…
To mark the 70th anniversary of Prestige Records, a set of Miles Davis’ quintet recordings spanning 1955 and 1956 has been released on LP, replete with a bonus disc of live performances.
Dec 11, 2019 9:00 AM
Come for the 180-gram vinyl, stay for the recording of Steve Allen presenting Miles Davis with a DownBeat award.
In…
Koma Saxo performs a Dec. 5 set at G Livelab during the We Jazz Festival in Helsinki.
Dec 9, 2019 4:01 PM
Unlike many festivals, Helsinki’s venturesome We Jazz Festival, which ran Dec. 1-8, is an inherently restless…
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