Feb 27, 2018 9:56 AM
Tony Allen Reaches Beyond Afrobeat, Jazz
Tony Allen has one of the most recognizable drum sounds on the planet. His polyrhythmic style, which combines swing,…
Drummer Tony Allen has claimed to be able to play a different time signature with each limb simultaneously.
Feb 27, 2018 9:56 AM
Tony Allen has one of the most recognizable drum sounds on the planet. His polyrhythmic style, which combines swing,…
The new album by pianist Martial Solal (left) and saxophonist Dave Liebman is Masters In Bordeaux.
Jan 1, 2018 6:48 PM
By the time Dave Liebman first made his mark in the early 1970s, as the saxophonist and flutist in Miles Davis’…
Saxophonist Rahsaan Barber’s new album is titled The Music In The Night.
Jan 1, 2018 6:39 PM
Not long ago, Rahsaan Barber was talking with some friends about his new album of standards, The Music In The Night.…
Singer Lina Nyberg and her band perform at the 2017 Stockholm Jazz Festival.
Jan 1, 2018 6:17 PM
One of the first sets at this year’s Stockholm Jazz Festival, which ran Oct. 6–15, started with a formless,…
Luis Perdomo (left), Miguel Zenón, Peter Bernstein and Branford Marsalis perform at The Jazz Gallery in New York on Nov. 1.
Jan 1, 2018 6:12 PM
Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico on Sept. 20, causing unprecedented devastation, knocking out most of the island’s…
Dave Douglas in the studio with members of The Westerlies.
Jan 1, 2018 1:22 PM
The indefatigable Dave Douglas is sitting in his composition room surrounded by comfortable couches, a piano, a wall of…
Esperanza Spalding’s new album is titled Exposure.
Jan 1, 2018 12:46 PM
Witnessing Esperanza Spalding in concert in September 2006, when she opened for the McCoy Tyner Sextet at Berklee’s…
My Point is ... is drummer Willie Jones III’s most recent long-playing album.
Jan 1, 2018 11:30 AM
It doesn’t take a Ph.D. to complete the elliptical title of Willie Jones III’s new album, My Point is… (WJ3),…
Roswell Rudd
Dec 22, 2017 12:17 PM
Trombonist Roswell Rudd, who had been suffering from cancer, died Dec. 21. He was 82.
In tribute, DownBeat is…
Alto saxophonist Steve Slagle’s new album is titled Dedication.
Dec 20, 2017 7:26 PM
Saxophonist-composer-educator Steve Slagle named his 2016 album Alto Manhattan because the title had a double meaning,…
