Aug 28, 2018 9:44 AM
Chris Beck Finds Beauty in the Ashes
Reading the credits of Chris Beck’s debut recording, The Journey (A.W.M.C.), an anomaly catches your eye: Eric…
Drummer Chris Beck’s debut is titled The Journey.
Aug 28, 2018 9:44 AM
Reading the credits of Chris Beck’s debut recording, The Journey (A.W.M.C.), an anomaly catches your eye: Eric…
The crowd applauds a performance by legendary percussionist Poncho Sanchez (second from left) at MCG Jazz in Pittsburgh.
Aug 27, 2018 9:29 AM
In 1983, when Marty Ashby was a struggling young jazz guitarist in New York City, fresh out of Ithaca College, he went…
Bongwool Lee grew up playing classical music before switching to jazz.
Aug 24, 2018 9:12 AM
Call it a revelatory jazz moment. As a classical music prodigy in Seoul, South Korea, pianist Bongwool Lee was…
Edition Records founder Dave Stapleton is celebrating the label’s 10-year anniversary.
Aug 23, 2018 10:49 AM
As Edition Records founder Dave Stapleton reflected on the label’s 10-year milestone with his friend, bassist and…
Deanne Matley received grants to pay for the production expenses of her new album, Because I Loved.
Aug 22, 2018 9:00 AM
Six years ago, as Deanne Matley was building her career as a jazz singer in Calgary, Alberta, fans kept approaching her…
Lalah Hathaway performs at the San Jose Jazz Summer Fest.
Aug 21, 2018 3:20 PM
It was still a comfortable 80 degrees on an early August evening when the San Jose Jazz Summer Fest kicked off, its…
Bassist Corcoran Holt has worked with such icons as Benny Golson, Steve Turre and Jimmy Cobb.
Aug 21, 2018 9:00 AM
The first instrument that bassist Corcoran Holt ever played was the djembe, a West African rope-bound drum. As a child…
Marquis Hill Blacktet is set to play 7:30 p.m. Feb. 15 at The University of Chicago’s Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts.
Aug 20, 2018 1:15 PM
The University of Chicago Presents series marks its 75th season with a mixture of classical, new music and jazz…
Nicole Johänntgen recorded her album Henry in New Orleans, while Henry II was recorded in Zurich, Switzerland.
Aug 20, 2018 9:00 AM
When Nicole Johänntgen was growing up in Fischbach, Germany, she routinely was awakened by her father’s New…
Tomasz Stańko (1942-2018)
Aug 20, 2018 8:55 AM
Growing up in post-World War II Poland, trumpeter Tomasz Stańko’s first experienced jazz music as a kind of outsider…
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