Jun 17, 2019 9:00 AM
Shelby Enriches the Bay Area with Music, Education, Activism
On the final evening of a four-night run as resident artistic director at San Francisco’s SFJAZZ at the end of May,…
Bassist and composer Marcus Shelby says his career has been shaped by performers and institutions in the Bay Area.
Jun 17, 2019 9:00 AM
On the final evening of a four-night run as resident artistic director at San Francisco’s SFJAZZ at the end of May,…
Howard Levy (left), Victor Wooten, Jeff Coffin, Abigail Washburn, Béla Fleck, Jerry Douglas and Roy “Future Man” Wooten onstage at Red Rocks.
Jun 14, 2019 2:13 PM
When mandolinist Sam Bush had to bow out of Béla Fleck’s two-hour inaugural Friends and Family show at Red Rocks on…
George Benson, shown here at the 2016 Detroit Jazz Festival, performs songs written by Fats Domino and Chuck Berry on his new album.
Jun 14, 2019 9:15 AM
For his new album, George Benson turned to the past. On Walking To New Orleans (Provogue), the jazz guitarist/singer…
Tom Zé was part of a Brazilian contingent at the Moers Festival—which ran June 7-10 in Moers, Germany—that also included Clube Da Encruza, Sambanzo and Absimu Curtu.
Jun 13, 2019 2:44 PM
The Moers Festival started in 1971, and its roots reach deep into the vortex of free improvisation. That’s still the…
The development of Star People Nation—the first album in which Theo Croker has sole producer credit—involved an 18-month journey to both U.S. coasts and multiple recording studios, where he played auxiliary keyboards and synths, crafted electronic and acoustic beats, incorporated samples and wrote lyrics to be sung by himself and special guests.
Jun 13, 2019 9:00 AM
It’s a Wednesday night, and a capacity crowd has filled Mr. Musichead, a spacious gallery on The Sunset Strip in…
“I’m looking for musicians who will kick my ass and make me grow,” Melissa Aldana recently said with a laugh.
Jun 12, 2019 9:00 AM
In the fall of 2013, T.S. Monk was hollering into a hot microphone on the Kennedy Center Stage: “ They gave you their…
Vocalist Anna-Maria Hefele of Supersonus performs at the 25th edition of the INNtöne Jazz Festival in Austria.
Jun 11, 2019 10:05 AM
As many of its longtime attendees say, the INNtöne Jazz Festival, now in its 25th year, takes place in the middle of…
Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt wrote a suite for his latest album prompted by his viewing the works of sculptor Rodin at the Musée Rodin in Paris.
Jun 11, 2019 9:00 AM
Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt is an avid museumgoer, and so it was only a matter of time until his love of visual art began to…
Ruthie Foster performs on June 9 at the Chicago Blues Festival.
Jun 10, 2019 9:07 PM
Chicago Blues Festival Director Carlos Tortolero offered a succinct response when asked about the overarching theme…
George Benson (left) accepts an award from André Ménard in 2010.
Jun 10, 2019 9:00 AM
It’s a frigid mid-winter day in Montreal, but in his eighth-floor office, André Ménard’s mind is focused on the…
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