Jun 22, 2021 9:57 AM
Co-Winners Top Sarah Vaughan Vocal Competition
Great jazz singers find their voices by breaking rules. That was evident on June 6, as Gabrielle Cavassa and Tawanda…
Tawanda Suessbrich-Joaquim and Gabrielle Cavassa receive their award from Christian McBride as co-winners of the Sarah Vaughan International Vocal Competition.
Jun 22, 2021 9:57 AM
Great jazz singers find their voices by breaking rules. That was evident on June 6, as Gabrielle Cavassa and Tawanda…
Julian Lage (left) and Don Was
Jun 22, 2021 9:49 AM
This week’s streaming highlights feature Julian Lage in conversation with Don Was, the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic…
The Monterey Jazz Festival, one of many reopening for late summer.
Jun 15, 2021 10:34 AM
In what has to be billed as the great jazz reopening, festivals are coming back online, many with late-breaking plans…
Charnett Moffett
Jun 11, 2021 10:22 AM
Charnett Moffett’s silky bass lines come to the fore on his tune “Rejoice” from his new album, New Love. Check…
TC3, the Todd Cochran Trio: Michael Carvin (left), Todd Cochran and John Leftwich
Jun 10, 2021 3:01 PM
Pianist Todd Cochran wasn’t satisfied with simply making a video as an extension of his new recording with TC3, Then…
Cory Wong and Dave Koz
Jun 8, 2021 9:00 AM
This week’s streaming highlights include Aaron Diehl’s Monterey Jazz Festival Commission from 2014, Jazz at Lincoln…
Lee Morgan (1938–’72)
Jun 7, 2021 11:16 AM
There aren’t many artists in the history of jazz who could turn a three-night engagement into 12 albums (eight CDs)…
Robert Glasper will perform all three days in different musical settings.
Jun 7, 2021 11:15 AM
The Newport Jazz Festival has announced that tickets are now on sale for this year’s event July 30–Aug. 1 with a…
Shemekia Copeland
Jun 7, 2021 11:14 AM
The blues was on full display during The Blues Foundation’s 42nd Blues Music Awards on June 6.
This year’s…
The Immanuel Wilkins Quartet: bassist Daryl Johns (left), drummer Kweku Sumbry, Wilkins on saxophone and pianist Micah Thomas
Jun 1, 2021 9:00 AM
This week’s streaming highlights include the 2021 Virtual Blues Music Awards with Shemekia Copeland leading the…
