Daymé Arocena performs June 9 during the Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
Jun 12, 2018 4:40 PM
For the first time in its 40-year history, the Playboy Jazz Festival returned to the Hollywood Bowl without its…
Eddie Henderson frequently eschews original compositions on his albums, opting instead for interpretations to create a “collective portrait.”
Jun 12, 2018 8:03 AM
In 1970, When Eddie Henderson joined Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi band as a substitute trumpeter, he was the least…
Lorraine Gordon at the Village Vanguard in 2005
Jun 11, 2018 3:31 PM
Lorraine Gordon, the proprietor of the Village Vanguard jazz club in Greenwich Village, died June 9 in Manhattan. She…
San Francisco-based vocalist Roberta Donnay pays tribute to Louis Armstrong on her new album.
Jun 11, 2018 9:17 AM
When you’re in love, it’s easy to lose yourself in the allure of your beloved. Just ask Roberta Donnay: The San…
Cécile McLorin Salvant and Aaron Diehl perform June 14, 2017, at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem
Jun 10, 2018 4:20 PM
The packed house at New York’s 92nd Street Y was no pushover. A skeptical lot accustomed to hearing the cream of…
On June 29, the Impulse! label will issue previously unreleased studio recordings by John Coltrane (left), Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison and McCoy Tyner under the title Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album.
Jun 8, 2018 8:00 AM
“Finding unreleased John Coltrane? It’s like discovering buried treasure.”
That’s how Ravi Coltrane, the…
Donny McCaslin’s second album for Motéma will be released later this year.
Jun 7, 2018 7:57 AM
High hopes always accompany the launch of a record label. But many labels falter due to the challenges of today’s…
Piano & A Microphone 1983 is set to be released in September.
Jun 7, 2018 7:56 AM
Prince, who died April 21, 2016, would have been 60 today.
Marking that, the musician’s estate and Warner Bros.…
Montreal-based pianist and jazz educator John Roney will perform his reimagining of Keith Jarrett’s landmark 1975 album The Köln Concert at three major Canadian jazz festivals in June.
Jun 6, 2018 11:36 AM
John Roney will be channeling his inner Keith Jarrett, circa 1975, at three Canadian festivals this month. The…
Todd Marcus is a musician and community organizer in Baltimore.
Jun 6, 2018 7:00 AM
When it comes to melding social consciousness with art, Todd Marcus walks the talk. On his new album, On The Streets (A…
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