Jun 22, 2017 2:03 PM
Chicago Street Naming after Local Folk-Soul Icon Terry Callier
There is conjecture that if blues historian Samuel Charters hadn’t absconded with the master tapes to Terry…
27th Ward Alderman Walter Burnett Jr. (left), Alvin Carter-Bey, Larry Wade and Michael Callier
Jun 22, 2017 2:03 PM
There is conjecture that if blues historian Samuel Charters hadn’t absconded with the master tapes to Terry…
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performs Billy Wilson’s Winter In Lisbon.
Jun 16, 2017 5:37 PM
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater made its premiere in 1958, when the company’s 27-year-old namesake director…
Vocalist Bobby Carcassés, percussionist Yaroldy Abreu and bassist Esperanza Spalding perform Spalding’s composition “I Adore You” in Havana on April 30. The BET network will broadcast the concert Sunday (June 18) at 2 p.m. EST.
Jun 15, 2017 3:20 PM
If you weren’t fortunate enough to attend the 2017 International Jazz Day Concert in Havana, or if you didn’t watch the…
Still from the Jazz Institute of Chicago video about its Straight Ahead Jazz Camp, to be held July 17–21
Jun 15, 2017 12:46 PM
Enrollment is now open for the Jazz Institute of Chicago’s Straight Ahead Jazz Camp, to take place July 17–21 at…
Herbie Hancock will teach his first ever online class exclusively with MasterClass.
Jun 15, 2017 8:34 AM
The online education platform MasterClass has announced today composer/keyboardist Herbie Hancock will teach his first…
The 2018 class of NEA Jazz Masters includes Dianne Reeves, Todd Barkan, Joanne Brackeen and Pat Metheny.
Jun 13, 2017 8:36 AM
Pat Metheny, Dianne Reeves, Todd Barkan and Joanne Brackeen have joined the ranks of the nation’s highest honor in…
Guitarist Dewa Budjana’s latest album is titled Zentuary.
Jun 9, 2017 9:54 PM
Indonesian guitarist Dewa Budjana can be viewed as a composite of Pat Metheny, John McLaughlin and Allan Holdsworth.…
Photos from the Sonny Rollins Archive at the August Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem.
Jun 9, 2017 11:58 AM
Once or twice a week during his grade school years, Sonny Rollins, now 86, made the two-block walk to his local library…
Dave Douglas (left) performs with John Zorn. The pair recently collaborated during an improv session at the Stone, Zorn’s East Village arts venue set to move across town next year.
Jun 5, 2017 4:56 PM
It was just a few months ago that John Zorn announced that The Stone, his understated avant-garde venue in…
Matt Wilson’s new album Honey And Salt will be released August 25 on Palmetto Records.
Jun 2, 2017 6:11 PM
When Carl Sandburg died in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson hailed the famed poet as “more than the voice of…
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