May 9, 2022 2:09 PM
Bill O’Connell’s Hope for Change
Best known as an inspired hybridizer of modernist jazz and Afrodiasporic idioms as an improviser and composer, Bill…
O’Connell said, “Jazz combined the sophistication I was looking for in music with the earth and the swing. I was determined to pursue it and develop myself as a jazz pianist.”
May 9, 2022 2:09 PM
Best known as an inspired hybridizer of modernist jazz and Afrodiasporic idioms as an improviser and composer, Bill…
Trombonist Craig Harris of New York is among this year’s class of JJA Jazz Heroes.
May 3, 2022 11:39 AM
The Jazz Journalists Association has announced its 2022 class of Jazz Heroes — 28 activists and advocates from 26…
Charles Lloyd and the Marvels performing at Jazz Middelheim in Belgium.
Apr 28, 2022 5:42 PM
This year’s summer jazz festival season is cause for special, and excessive, celebration. The entire jazz ecosystem…
Quinence Lynell, left, and Dee Dee Bridgewater perform at SummerStage in New York.
Apr 28, 2022 5:00 PM
It’s been awhile since many jazz events were allowed to go live, unhindered by the threat of pandemic-induced…
Matt Burchard, literally, takes the music to the people at the Vail Jazz Festival.
Apr 28, 2022 4:58 PM
With 2020 mostly a lost year and 2021 largely transitional, jazz festivals held west of the mighty Mississippi River…
John Zorn’s Masada performing at Jazz em Agosto in Lisbon.
Apr 28, 2022 4:56 PM
In the summer of 2022, our jazz festivals will be free to run without nearly as many of the social distancing…
DownBeat’s May 2022 Festival Guide issue
Apr 28, 2022 4:54 PM
DownBeat’s 2022 Summer Festival Guide is packed with more than 125 listings for festivals around the U.S., Canada,…
“Keith’s thing was startling,” pianist Craig Taborn says of Facing You.
Apr 26, 2022 1:31 PM
A half century has passed since Keith Jarrett released his first solo piano album, Facing You (also his first recording…
Saxophonist and JHK alumnus Birsa Chatterjee observes his student ensemble the Jazz House Messengers as they perform “Autumn Leaves.”
Apr 26, 2022 1:24 PM
Jazz House Kids views music education as an interdisciplinary curriculum.
His left hand on the bass, Christian…
Jaap van Zweden said, “The open minds of the orchestra members are amazing. The soul of the city comes out of these people. It feels very natural.”
Apr 26, 2022 1:15 PM
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the gleaming cultural complex on Manhattan’s West Side, was built on land…
