Sep 9, 2025 1:07 PM
Bobby Bradford: Phoenix Rising
It was a calm, balmy, near-perfect evening in Westwood, California, not far from UCLA, in the expansive courtyard at…
“[That’s] the thing of the beboppers,” Bradford said. “These guys were important for not only playing that wonderful music, but they knew a sort of social stance, you see?”
Sep 9, 2025 1:07 PM
It was a calm, balmy, near-perfect evening in Westwood, California, not far from UCLA, in the expansive courtyard at…
Pat Metheny will perform with his Side-Eye III ensemble at Big Ears 2026 in Knoxville, Tennessee, next March.
Sep 9, 2025 12:19 PM
Big Ears has announced the lineup for its 2026 festival, which will take place March 26–29 and include 250…
Trio aRT with its avalanche of instrumentation: from left, Pheeroan akLaff, Scott Robinson and Julian Thayer.
Sep 3, 2025 12:03 PM
Trio aRT, a working unit since 1988, shockingly released its very first studio recording this summer. Recorded in…
Don and Maureen Sickler serve as the keepers of engineer Rudy Van Gelder’s flame at Van Gelder Studio, perhaps the most famous recording studio in jazz history.
Sep 3, 2025 12:02 PM
On the last Sunday of 2024, in the control room of Van Gelder Studio, Don and Maureen Sickler, co-owners since Rudy Van…
“It’s energetic,” says Brittany Davis of feeling the spirits of the ancestors. “It’s interpretive. It’s a dance of sound and vibration. It’s a memory, it’s a wash. It’s washing over you.”
Sep 3, 2025 12:01 PM
Since she was 3 years old, Brittany Davis has been mimicking bird songs on the piano. Davis, who was born blind, also…
Mark Masters, right, with Billy Harper.
Sep 3, 2025 12:00 PM
The Rising Star Category of this publication’s annual Critics Poll was once called Talent Deserving Wider Recognition…
The Free Slave, Cosmos Nucleus and Sunset To Dawn: three classic Muse albums being reissued this fall by Timer Traveler Recordings.
Aug 26, 2025 1:32 PM
Record producer and “Jazz Detective” Zev Feldman has launched his next endeavor, the archival label Time Traveler…
Tarbaby will be among the performers at the inaugural Sound And Gravity Festival Sept. 10–14 in Chicago.
Aug 19, 2025 12:18 PM
The inaugural edition of the Sound And Gravity Festival will take place between Sept. 10–14 on the North Side of…
The ISJAC Honors Celebration & Fundraiser will feature a headline performance by John Beasley and his MONK’estra.
Aug 19, 2025 12:02 PM
The International Society of Jazz Arrangers & Composers will hold its first-ever Honors Celebration & Fundraiser on…
Nancy King: 1940–2025
Aug 19, 2025 11:53 AM
Vocalist Nancy King, a staple of the Portland, Oregon, jazz scene, died Aug. 5. She was 85 years old.
King received…
