Dec 7, 2018 8:55 AM
Ravinia’s Second Annual Bridges Competition Taking Submissions
Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute has opened submissions for its second annual Bridges competition.
The David Baker…
Dec 7, 2018 8:55 AM
Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute has opened submissions for its second annual Bridges competition.
The David Baker…
Rajiv Halim has worked with Chance The Rapper, among others, in addition to leading his own troupe.
Dec 6, 2018 9:00 AM
Rajiv Halim will tell it to you straight. He’s ready to talk about today.
“A lot of people are stuck in the…
Multi-reedist and educator Greg Fishman has published three volumes of his Jazz Saxophone Etudes series.
Dec 5, 2018 9:00 AM
Saxophones surround multi-reedist Greg Fishman every time he walks into his Evanston, Illinois, studio and he’d never…
Concord Label Group president John Burk (left), Monk Competition winner Tom Oren and Thelonious Monk Institute chairman Herbie Hancock
Dec 4, 2018 9:24 AM
The winner of this year’s Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz competition, Tom Oren, hails from Tel Aviv, Israel—a…
Singer Lizz Wright moved to Chicago in 2017 to serve on the board of the Little Black Pearl Art & Design Academy, which offers arts education and technical training courses in the Kenwood neighborhood on the city’s South Side.
Dec 4, 2018 9:00 AM
Vocalist Lizz Wright has much to be proud of, including her latest accolade: Her latest release, Grace (Concord),…
Saxophonist and 2018 Kennedy Center Honoree Wayne Shorter delivers a speech Dec. 1 at a State Department dinner in Washington, D.C.
Dec 3, 2018 9:51 AM
Over the course of his fruitful career, prolific saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter has amassed numerous accolades,…
Dongfeng Liu’s new album merges musical traditions from different cultures.
Dec 3, 2018 9:00 AM
Dongfeng Liu was born and raised in China, but always felt a deep affinity for the music of the Caribbean. On the…
Marcus Strickland said he’s considered recording an album of work composed around bass clarinet. The reedist’s album with Twi-Life, People Of The Sun (Blue Note), is out now.
Nov 30, 2018 9:00 AM
Before Marcus Strickland launched into music from his new album, People Of The Sun (Blue Note), during a Nov. 10…
Andrew Bernstein, who also performs with Baltimore avant-rock act Horse Lords, has issued a solo saxophone recording, An Exploded View Of Time (Hausu Mountain).
Nov 29, 2018 9:00 AM
Baltimore-based multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bernstein delivers a truly unique and transcendent solo recording with An…
The book Art Kane: Harlem 1958 explores the origin of one of the most famous photos in jazz history and includes this version, identifying the 57 musicians.
Nov 28, 2018 11:00 AM
Many jazz fans have seen the iconic image, but few know its complete backstory. On Aug. 12, 1958, graphic designer and…
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