Dec 30, 2025 12:56 PM
Rotem Sivan and His Heart Thieves
Heart Thieves, the new album from guitarist Rotem Sivan, is named well. This lush record, and the moving story behind…
“We started seeing something that’s not completely right, he had a cold, he was crying more,” Sivan said of his baby son’s cancer.
Dec 30, 2025 12:56 PM
Heart Thieves, the new album from guitarist Rotem Sivan, is named well. This lush record, and the moving story behind…
Cha Wa’s album Rise Up makes a joyful noise of redemption and freedom that propels the band on to the world stage.
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Four years in the making, Rise Up, the latest album from the Afro-Indigenous funk collective Cha Wa, was released on…
Craig Taborn (left), Nels Cline and Marcus Gilmore turn a producer’s pet project into a jam for the ages.
Dec 9, 2025 12:16 PM
The art of the trio is a sturdy yet intimate, changeable and sometimes fragile phenomenon. Triangular geometry has its…
Lee Ritenour, right, with journalist Ashley Kahn, center, and pianist Greg Burk, who translated for the Italian audience.
Dec 9, 2025 12:04 PM
Genial and relaxed at 73, guitarist Lee Ritenour took time while on tour in Europe this summer to participate in his…
“Miles could hear so well that he could hear the future,” Bartz said..
Dec 2, 2025 2:10 AM
Resplendent in a shimmering gold jacket, his long gray locks kissed by the evening breeze, Gary Bartz was floating…
Avishai Cohen, right, with writer Ashley Kahn at the North Sea Jazz Fest.
Nov 25, 2025 1:03 PM
Trumpeter Avishai Cohen’s first Blindfold Test took place in the midst of his summer European tour, on the “Central…
Christian McBride, the DownBeat Readers Poll choice for Artist of the Year, and R&B star Jeffrey Osborne at The Record Parlour, a used vinyl shop and show venue in Los Angeles.
Nov 13, 2025 11:32 AM
It’s late September in Los Angeles. A scorching heat wave has lingered but waned somewhat over the past few days, the…
Jack DeJohnette: a tireless explorer who robustly embodied the jazz aesthetic as a kaleidoscopic drummer, pianist, tireless collaborator and marvelously creative and productive bandleader.
Nov 13, 2025 11:22 AM
Editor’s Note: The print issue of our December issue went to press just two days before Jack DeJohnette passed away…
“Instead of trying to invent a single tone, we need to give it those shades of colors that change to fit the emotional interpretation of what the music is,” Branford Marsalis said, reflecting on the collective mindset of his longstanding quartet with Joey Calderazzo, Justin Faulkner and Eric Revis.
Nov 13, 2025 11:05 AM
One afternoon in mid-September, a touring Branford Marsalis had some time to kill in Oberlin, Ohio. Rather than see the…
“I consider myself lucky to be an extrovert,” said Cohen. “I like people and their stories.”
Nov 13, 2025 10:57 AM
Emmet Cohen grinned as he recalled a joke the comedian Alonzo Bodden told about him on the recent week-long “Journey…
