More Mingus? Thank you!
Apr 10, 2025 1:50 PM
Here’s even more great music to please your ears and satisfy your hunger for historically significant recordings.…
Saxophonist Javon Jackson and bassist Danton Boller at Louis Armstrong Center’s Jazz Room on March 1.
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Tonight, April 8, tenor saxophonist Javon Jackson will bring to the Village Vanguard a tribute to his late performing…
The Blue Note Jazz Festival New York kicks off May 27 with a James Moody 100th Birthday Celebration at Sony Hall.
Apr 8, 2025 1:23 PM
Blue Note Entertainment Group has unveiled the lineup for the 14th annual Blue Note Jazz Festival New York, featuring…
George Freeman, shown here at Chicago’s Green Mill, performed well into his 90s.
Apr 8, 2025 12:56 PM
Guitarist George Freeman, a mainstay of the Chicago jazz scene, died April 1 at age 97 — just days before being…
“The NDR Bigband is truly an ensemble for our times,” said Nikki Iles, principal conductor for the 2025–’26 season.
Apr 8, 2025 11:56 AM
British bandleader, pianist and composer Nikki Iles will be the new principal conductor of the Hamburg, Germany-based…
“It’s an honor and a blessing to be in this universe with Mr. Smith,” said Vijay Iyer, left, of Wadada Leo Smith, right, at the March 20 release party for their latest duo recording, Defiant Life (ECM).
Apr 1, 2025 8:43 AM
On March 20, the night before the release of Defiant Life, the new Vijay Iyer-Wadada Leo Smith duo album from ECM, the…
A recent batch of great jazz from today’s most caliente Latin artists, clockwise from top left: Zaccai Curtis, Salsa de la Bahia, Melfis Santa, Leiba Trio, Duduka Da Fonseca Trio, Hamilton De Holanda & Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Diego Figueiredo and The John Santos Sextet & Friends.
Mar 25, 2025 11:59 AM
The year 2024 brought an abundant feast of amazing music in jazz from a Latin perspective. We’re catching up with…
“It sounds together, there’s nothing random, yet hardly anything was said,” saxophonist Ohad Talmor said of Back To The Land.
Mar 25, 2025 11:52 AM
Ohad Talmor’s new album gestated in the spring of 2020, after Lee Konitz — his mentor, friend and musical…
“This is one of the great gifts that Coltrane gave us — he gave us a key to the cosmos in this recording,” says John McLaughlin.
Mar 18, 2025 3:00 PM
In his original liner notes to A Love Supreme, John Coltrane wrote: “Yes, it is true — ‘seek and ye shall…
“I attribute the jazz elements to my upbringing in the Black American classical pedagogy, to my grandparents Kenny and Joanne Barron,” says NIKARA.
Mar 18, 2025 2:23 PM
Brooklyn is indisputably a power spot in the musical universe, especially in terms of its contributions to jazz, R&B,…
