Sep 19, 2018 8:55 AM
Christian McBride & Bootsy Collins: ‘All for the Funk of It’
“Greatest day of my life,” declared Christian McBride without a hint of hyperbole. Even for a six-time…
Bassist Christian McBride (left) and Bootsy Collins sat down for a moderated conversation with journalist Andy Hermann in Los Angeles.
Sep 19, 2018 8:55 AM
“Greatest day of my life,” declared Christian McBride without a hint of hyperbole. Even for a six-time…
Walter Gwardyak is the music director and pianist for the New England Jazz Ensemble.
Sep 18, 2018 9:00 AM
In 1936, the Moscow Children’s Music Theater commissioned composer Sergei Prokofiev to write a symphonic fairy tale…
Joe Chambers (right) leads M’Boom in a Sept. 13 performance at the City Winery in Washington D.C. during the 33rd Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s jazz concert.
Sep 17, 2018 9:00 AM
For 2018, its 33rd iteration, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s annual jazz concert presented one of its…
Dexter Gordon (left) and Ira Sabin in 1986
Sep 17, 2018 8:59 AM
Ira Sabin, whose career included stints as a drummer, concert presenter, record store owner and magazine publisher,…
Eli Degibri’s tribute to Hank Mobley, Soul Station, is due out Oct. 5.
Sep 14, 2018 9:00 AM
Tel Aviv’s Eli Degibri aims to recapture the spirit of Hank Mobely’s album Soul Station with a tribute disc of the…
Ural Thomas and The Pain are set to issue The Right Time (Tender Loving Empire), an album of all-original material, on Sept. 28.
Sep 14, 2018 9:00 AM
The timeline of soul and r&b in America has followed some interesting byways during the past decade, as the once-quiet…
Peter Erskine’s new album with his band Dr. Um is titled On Call (Fuzzy Music).
Sep 13, 2018 10:34 AM
A transcription of Peter Erskine’s drumset solo on “Hawaii Bathing Suit”—from the 2018 live album On Call…
On Cuong Vu 4Tet’s Change In The Air (RareNoise), its namesake trumpeter ditches electronic effects.
Sep 13, 2018 9:00 AM
Despite pre-dawn airport pickups and scary midnight rides, bad food and worse sound engineers, there’s a romance to…
All About That Basie (Concord) includes a clutch of pop tunes that The Count Basie Orchestra makes its own.
Sep 12, 2018 9:00 AM
The Count Basie Orchestra was founded in 1936 in Kansas City, Missouri, and continues to this day, decades after its…
Pianist Randy Weston (1926–2018) performs at the 2013 Chicago Jazz Festival.
Sep 12, 2018 8:55 AM
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