Aug 24, 2018 9:12 AM
Bongwool Lee’s Jazz Epiphany
Call it a revelatory jazz moment. As a classical music prodigy in Seoul, South Korea, pianist Bongwool Lee was…
Bongwool Lee grew up playing classical music before switching to jazz.
Aug 24, 2018 9:12 AM
Call it a revelatory jazz moment. As a classical music prodigy in Seoul, South Korea, pianist Bongwool Lee was…
Edition Records founder Dave Stapleton is celebrating the label’s 10-year anniversary.
Aug 23, 2018 10:49 AM
As Edition Records founder Dave Stapleton reflected on the label’s 10-year milestone with his friend, bassist and…
Deanne Matley received grants to pay for the production expenses of her new album, Because I Loved.
Aug 22, 2018 9:00 AM
Six years ago, as Deanne Matley was building her career as a jazz singer in Calgary, Alberta, fans kept approaching her…
Bassist Corcoran Holt has worked with such icons as Benny Golson, Steve Turre and Jimmy Cobb.
Aug 21, 2018 9:00 AM
The first instrument that bassist Corcoran Holt ever played was the djembe, a West African rope-bound drum. As a child…
Nicole Johänntgen recorded her album Henry in New Orleans, while Henry II was recorded in Zurich, Switzerland.
Aug 20, 2018 9:00 AM
When Nicole Johänntgen was growing up in Fischbach, Germany, she routinely was awakened by her father’s New…
Tomasz Stańko (1942-2018)
Aug 20, 2018 8:55 AM
Growing up in post-World War II Poland, trumpeter Tomasz Stańko’s first experienced jazz music as a kind of outsider…
Andrea Motis recently taught and performed at Stanford University in California.
Aug 17, 2018 3:30 PM
The creative seeds that 23-year-old trumpeter and vocalist Andrea Motis has been planting since her days as a teen…
Ulysses Owens Jr. has released an album, Songs Of Freedom, based on his touring show.
Aug 17, 2018 9:00 AM
Clear, purposeful communication has anchored Ulysses Owens Jr.’s artistry since he was a kid playing drums in church.…
Tyshawn Sorey recently issued music through the digital platform PEOPLE.
Aug 16, 2018 8:55 AM
Tyshawn Sorey’s days as a sideman might be coming to an end. “I’ve lived that life, and it was great during its…
New York multi-instrumentalist Ben Goldberg likes Steve Lacy as much as Steve Lacy liked baseball.
Aug 15, 2018 9:00 AM
All it took was one note for Ben Goldberg to fall in love with the music of saxophonist Steve Lacy.
At the time,…
