Nov 14, 2017 10:57 AM
At 90, Lee Konitz Keeps Swinging, Singing
It’s a crisp Monday afternoon in October on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, just a few days after saxophone legend Lee…
Saxophonist Lee Konitz is an NEA Jazz Master.
Nov 14, 2017 10:57 AM
It’s a crisp Monday afternoon in October on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, just a few days after saxophone legend Lee…
Frank Gambale onstage at the 2017 Uppsala International Guitar Festival in Sweden
Nov 6, 2017 8:42 PM
“Play the melody like a great singer.” That’s guitarist Frank Gambale talking about the importance of putting…
Vocalist Mavis Staples’ new album is titled If All I Was Was Black.
Oct 20, 2017 4:00 PM
Singer Mavis Staples has offered a warm and uplifting voice through challenging times for more than 50 years. Her…
Chris Eldridge (left) and Julian Lage released the album Mount Royal in February.
Oct 17, 2017 3:11 PM
They come from different musical worlds. But you’d never guess that after seeing them perform in the Krannert…
Sarah Elizabeth Charles released her latest album, Free Of Form, on Stretch Music/Ropeadope Oct. 6.
Oct 13, 2017 4:00 PM
Sarah Elizabeth Charles is a vocalist on the rise, riding the momentum of two phenomenal previous releases: 2012’s …
Rez Abbasi
Oct 9, 2017 2:25 PM
While most might associate guitarist Rez Abbasi with his quintet Invocation, there was another side to the artist on…
Ropeadope Records will release a trio album and a quintet album by pianist Richard X Bennett on Oct. 6.
Oct 5, 2017 6:40 PM
Some artists incessantly grumble about the state of the music business, while others just keep creating music and then…
Linda May Han Oh released the album Walk Against Wind on Biophilia Records on April 14.
Oct 4, 2017 3:29 PM
Bassist Linda May Han Oh’s first Monterey Jazz Festival MJF experience was in 2010, when she was a member of the band…
David Sanborn’s roots are laid deep in the blues—he played with Albert King when he was 14—and he also came up around avant-gardists in his hometown of St Louis.
Oct 3, 2017 4:02 PM
David Sanborn was the most salient alto saxophonist of the ’70s and ’80s, a musician who parlayed his visceral,…
Ricky Riccardi (left) is an Armstrong scholar and archivist at Queens College. The trumpeter released the single “What A Wonderful World” in 1967.
Oct 2, 2017 5:47 PM
The Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens, New York, marks the 50th anniversary of the trumpeter’s enduring hit…
