Aug 9, 2021 10:13 PM
Jazz Artists, Jazz Interviewers
Autobiographical memoirs and oral histories are common categories of jazz literature. Less so is the first-person…
Jeremy Pelt’s new book of jazz interviews is Griot: Examining The Lives Of Jazz’s Great Storytellers, Vol. 1.
Aug 9, 2021 10:13 PM
Autobiographical memoirs and oral histories are common categories of jazz literature. Less so is the first-person…
Carr Keys performs with vocalist Christie Dashiell.
Aug 9, 2021 10:08 PM
“Ladies and gentlemen, good evening!”
Five unremarkable words in most circumstances, they earned a jubilant…
Branford Marsalis played the featured soloist role for JLCO’s tribute to John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins at Ravinia.
Aug 4, 2021 10:00 AM
Jazz returned to the Ravina Festival in Highland Park, Illinois, in late July following the silent summer of 2020. The…
Squint is Julian Lage’s debut on Blue Note Records.
Aug 3, 2021 9:53 AM
Clasping his hands to his chest, then raising them to the heavens, Julian Lage evoked echoes of the exuberant child he…
On his new recording, Jones honors friends and mentors he has recently lost.
Aug 3, 2021 9:20 AM
Sheltered in his music room, Willie Jones III adjusts the volume on a Billy Taylor record. He swivels around to face…
Ben Monder
Aug 3, 2021 9:05 AM
He might not be a household name among casual listeners, but it would be hard to find a single jazz musician who does…
Collier, at work in the midst of COVID, at Van Gelder Studios last September.
Aug 3, 2021 8:59 AM
Pandemic stories — we hear them wherever we go. Pretty much every story in this issue is a pandemic story in some…
Dee Dee Bridgewater returned to live performing in Rome, with a few butterflies and a beautiful set.
Jul 27, 2021 10:34 AM
On a warm July night in central Rome, Dee Dee Bridgewater, wearing a long, floral print dress and broad-rimmed, dark…
John Pizzarelli hit the woodshed, literally, to develop material for his new recording Better Days Ahead: Solo Guitar Takes On Pat Metheny.
Jul 27, 2021 10:30 AM
It was in his darkest hour, during the early stages of the 2020 lockdown, that guitarist-vocalist John Pizzarelli…
Tim Hagans takes the DownBeat Blindfold Test. His new album, A Conversation, is a five-movement trumpet concerto.
Jul 27, 2021 10:22 AM
The thrice Grammy-nominated trumpeter Tim Hagans apprenticed in the bands of Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, Dexter Gordon,…
