Mar 8, 2021 8:00 AM
How Chick Corea Changed Lives
Chick Corea’s passing reverberated through the jazz world with a multigenerational outpouring for an artist seen as…
Christian McBride (left), Corea and Jack DeJohnette recording McBride’s Number 2 Express in 1995.
Mar 8, 2021 8:00 AM
Chick Corea’s passing reverberated through the jazz world with a multigenerational outpouring for an artist seen as…
Instructor Omar Abdulkarim (far right) works with students at the High School for Recording Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Mar 8, 2021 8:00 AM
Amid the local protests following George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police last year, Jerome Treadwell—a…
Mar 8, 2021 7:45 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, some…
Keyboardist Cameron Graves’ influences include Swedish metal band Meshuggah.
Mar 7, 2021 8:00 AM
Answering the phone at his San Fernando Valley home, Cameron Graves apologized for not picking up the first time. “I…
Julius Hemphill rehearsing Long Tongues: A Saxophone Opera in 1990
Mar 5, 2021 9:02 AM
Considering the seemingly boundless spring of archival music collections in the marketplace, it’s surprising that so…
Ralph Peterson Jr.
Mar 1, 2021 1:45 PM
Drummer Ralph Peterson Jr. passed away at 1:45 a.m. EST on March 1 following a six-year battle with cancer, according…
Andra Day portrays Billie Holiday in The United States vs. Billie Holiday.
Mar 1, 2021 8:00 AM
Director Lee Daniels has taken Johann Hari’s drug war history, Chasing the Scream, mixed it with Victor Hugo’s Les…
Claudia Acuña will perform on March 6 in honor of International Women’s Day.
Mar 1, 2021 7:45 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, some…
Ethan Iverson pays tribute to a transformative pianist with Bud Powell In The 21st Century (Sunnyside).
Feb 26, 2021 8:28 AM
Whenever Ethan Iverson takes on a repertory project, his goal is to do two things simultaneously. “One side is to…
Jason Palmer
Feb 25, 2021 9:00 AM
In 2007, DownBeat named Jason Palmer one of “25 Trumpeters for the Future,” and 14 years later, he has done nothing…
