Saxophonist Caroline Davis continues teaching through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Apr 3, 2020 8:37 AM
While jazz education has long served as a way to hand down tradition while instilling superlative musicianship, it has…
Saxophonist Walter Smith III (foreground) and guitarist Matthew Stevens have recorded a new album, In Common 2.
Apr 3, 2020 8:26 AM
Saxophonist Walter Smith III and guitarist Matthew Stevens achieved such artistic fulfillment with their 2018 album, In…
John (left) and Bucky Pizzarelli (1926–2020)
Apr 2, 2020 10:41 AM
Acclaimed jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli died on April 1 at age 94. He had suffered health problems, and his son, the…
Lakecia Benjamin’s latest album features compositions by Alice Coltrane and John Coltrane.
Apr 2, 2020 8:31 AM
When saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin finished the fourth song of her set, “Pursuance,” at Le Poisson Rouge in…
Even in his 70s, Duke Ellington was moving forward and keen to win new audiences.
Apr 1, 2020 2:35 PM
Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke once wrote, “Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the…
Pianist Gabriel Chakarji has been posting performances online to maintain momentum for his debut, New Beginning.
Apr 1, 2020 9:00 AM
Inside Bronx Music House, standing lamps bloom like roses. Percussion instruments hang like ivy on the walls. A…
Trumpeter Wallace Roney died Tuesday “due to complications of COVID-19,” according to his publicist.
Mar 31, 2020 2:01 PM
Trumpeter Wallace Roney—a stalwart of New York’s straightahead scene whose career put him in the path of legends…
Buddy Rich at New York’s Arcadia Ballroom in May 1947
Mar 31, 2020 8:16 AM
Buddy Rich died in 1987 at the age of 70. For 68 of those years, he was one of the world’s greatest drummers, first…
Trumpeter Lee Morgan (left) is the subject of Kasper Collin’s I Called Him Morgan.
Mar 30, 2020 4:49 PM
Well, readers: We’re still stuck at home, figuring out ways to stay sane and remain connected to the outside world.…
Miles Davis performs in Copenhagen, Denmark, during 1969—not long after recording Bitches Brew, which was released 50 years ago.
Mar 30, 2020 10:37 AM
Come for Chick Corea’s headband, and stay for Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter playing unison lines.
A live set,…
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