Mar 29, 2022 11:09 AM
Melanie Charles: Jazz Artist, Vocal Activist
As a singer, flutist, beat-maker, remixer and conceptualist, Melanie Charles saturates Ya’ll Don’t (Really) Care…
“I have to continue the conversation and shed light on the fact that Black women have always been undervalued, not protected and not cared for,” Charles says.
Mar 29, 2022 11:09 AM
As a singer, flutist, beat-maker, remixer and conceptualist, Melanie Charles saturates Ya’ll Don’t (Really) Care…
“We’re sacrificing our bodies to innate feeling and becoming vessels for this music,” Wilkins says.
Mar 29, 2022 10:55 AM
“My work is the intersection between spiritual practice and Black aesthetics,” Immanuel Wilkins says. “The two…
Vadim Neselovskyi performs in Lviv, Ukraine, in 2017.
Mar 15, 2022 12:07 PM
In June 2017, Vadim Neselovskyi played a concert at the Soviet-era Palace of Culture Mettalurgov in Mariupol, Ukraine,…
Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra recorded four albums of music in four days.
Mar 15, 2022 12:01 PM
As a ubiquitous figure on the New York scene for more than three decades, trumpeter Steven Bernstein has written…
A Time For Healing band members, from left, Isiah Collier, Justin Dillard, Corey Wilkes and Kahil El’Zabar.
Mar 15, 2022 11:54 AM
The laid-back, metronomic bounce and slap of percussionist Kahil El’Zabar’s earth drum (in tandem with contrapuntal…
“It’s been my goal to write and record new types of opportunities for improvisation,” Jamie Baum says.
Mar 15, 2022 11:48 AM
The Jamie Baum Septet breezed into Dizzy’s Club in New York this February premiering a variety of pandemic-inspired…
Ron Miles: 1963–2022
Mar 10, 2022 12:06 PM
Ron Miles, the Denver-based cornetist, composer, educator, bandleader and simpatico sideman who shared stages and…
“I wanted to give the strings fun things to play,” Fred Hersch said.
Mar 8, 2022 1:08 PM
Over the past year, the breadth and fire of jazz artists dipping a toe into the classical world has been staggering —…
Cameron Kimbrough and Damien “Yella P” Pearson are Memphissippi Sounds.
Mar 8, 2022 12:58 PM
The debut release by Cameron Kimbrough and Damion “Yella P” Pearson, Memphissippi Sounds (Little Village),…
This year’s honorees.
Mar 8, 2022 12:49 PM
The National Endowment for the Arts 2022 NEA Jazz Masters will be honored March 31 in collaboration with SFJAZZ at the…
