Sep 25, 2019 9:00 AM
In Marfa, Rob Mazurek Draws Inspiration from Eels and Art
In a climatic gun battle in John Sandford’s 2017 crime novel, Golden Prey, bullets tear through a room in Marfa,…
Rob Mazurek has three new releases on the Astral Spirits label.
Sep 25, 2019 9:00 AM
In a climatic gun battle in John Sandford’s 2017 crime novel, Golden Prey, bullets tear through a room in Marfa,…
For Utica Box, drummer Dan Weiss (center) convenes an acoustic ensemble—a group that contrasts the electric display of his 2018 Starebaby.
Sep 24, 2019 11:25 AM
Drummer Dan Weiss apparently relishes the compositional colors afforded to his groups when he doubles-up…
Harold Mabern (1936–2019)
Sep 24, 2019 11:16 AM
In July 1975, 39-year-old Harold Mabern took the stage at Carnegie Hall during a solo piano night at the New York City…
Guitarist Nels Cline (left), composer/reedist Anthony Braxton, drummer Greg Saunier and multi-instrumentalist Taylor Ho Bynum recorded Quartet (New Haven) 2014 five years ago. The work only now is being released on Firehouse 12, an imprint based in New Haven, Connecticut.
Sep 24, 2019 9:23 AM
Speaking with Anthony Braxton is much like trying to improvise alongside the 74-year-old reedist: You need to stay on…
Harry Connick Jr. performs his new one-man show Sept. 21 at the Durham Performing Arts Center in Durham, North Carolina.
Sep 23, 2019 7:16 PM
With a career as a multiplatinum jazz singer, pianist, composer and arranger spanning more than 40 years—and two…
Knoel Scott—who played baritone and alto saxophone, and percussion—performs with the Sun Ra Arkestra during a Sept. 6 tribute to late writer Steve Cannon at the Flamboyán Theater. The celebration was a part of Arts For Art’s 25th anniversary programing.
Sep 23, 2019 10:38 AM
When poet, playwright and novelist Steve Cannon died July 20 at the age of 84, New York’s Lower East Side lost one of…
John Coltrane (1926–1967)
Sep 23, 2019 9:58 AM
The generation-defining and genre-defying saxophonist John Coltrane was born Sept. 23, 1926. He would have been 93…
Kenny Barron will release a three-disc set of duets with the late Mulgrew Miller on Oct. 18. The 76-year-old pianist and bandleader also has a trio project in the works with bassist Dave Holland and drummer Johnathan Blake.
Sep 23, 2019 9:00 AM
Last year, Blue Note released Kenny Barron’s leader debut for the label: Concentric Circles, a tour de force for…
Poncho Sanchez’s new album, Trane’s Delight, offers a distinctly West Coast blend of Latin soul, r&b, post-bop and cool-jazz.
Sep 20, 2019 7:48 AM
The first jazz record Poncho Sanchez bought with his own money, when he was about 12 years old, was Coltrane…
Miles Davis in 1986, around the time he recorded the album Rubberband
Sep 19, 2019 9:00 AM
The phenomenon of “lost” jazz recordings finally emerging has caused waves throughout the jazz world. In addition…
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