Apr 16, 2025 9:34 PM
It’s Festival Season, Y’all!
If great art is made in chaos, get ready for some killer festivals this year. In digging into the 2025 festival scene…
Crowds chill at the John Coltrane Jazz & Blues Festival in North Carolina.
Apr 16, 2025 9:34 PM
If great art is made in chaos, get ready for some killer festivals this year. In digging into the 2025 festival scene…
Vancouver International Jazz Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary this summer.
Apr 16, 2025 9:30 PM
During seven glorious days in June 1986, a fledgling jazz festival in Vancouver, Canada, burst into the consciousness…
David Froman (left) and Don Lucoff, co-founders of the Denver Jazz Fest.
Apr 16, 2025 9:26 PM
From sisters Tia Fuller and Shamie Royston, Kneebody co-founders Shane Endsley and Kaveh Rastegar and the late Ron…
Bonnie Eisele and Les DeMerle performing at the Amelia Island Jazz Festival, which they also present.
Apr 16, 2025 9:22 PM
Les DeMerle learned by doing. DeMerle toured around with the Harry James Big Band for more than a decade and put…
Ruth Griggs, president of the Northampton Jazz Festival, emphasizes “creating and growing partnerships and building a positive reputation for jazz and the festival in the community.”
Apr 16, 2025 9:15 PM
Mention the word “festival” to jazz fans and chances are they’ll first think of legendary annual events at…
Apr 16, 2025 9:05 PM
In preparation for this year’s bountiful Jazz Festival Season, DownBeat brings you a detailed preview of the best…
Saxophonist Houston Person joins Joe Alterman (left) on the pianist’s latest release, Brisket For Breakfast.
Apr 15, 2025 11:35 AM
The piano saved Joe Alterman’s life. Dealing with crippling obsessive-compulsive disorder as a teenager, Alterman…
“They are all part of the same harmonic river,” Anne Sajdera says about artists ranging from Ravel, Debussy and Isaac Albeniz to Geri Allen, Sullivan Fortner and Terence Blanchard.
Apr 15, 2025 11:24 AM
When Anne Sajdera enrolled at San Francisco Conservatory in the late 1980s, her fellow piano majors were mostly bearing…
Apr 10, 2025 2:15 PM
Once again, in preparation for Record Store Day — this Saturday, April 12 — DownBeat goes crate-diggin’ to bring…
The cover image of one of two new Sun Ra releases on vinyl.
Apr 10, 2025 2:10 PM
If you’re like DownBeat’s editors and need a good dose of music from the avant garde side of jazz, get to your…
