Oct 13, 2017 4:00 PM
Q&A with Sarah Elizabeth Charles: Creative Reactions
Sarah Elizabeth Charles is a vocalist on the rise, riding the momentum of two phenomenal previous releases: 2012’s …
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…
Nico Segal (left) and Julian Reid of the JuJu Exchange. The group’s debut album, Exchange, is available in digital and vinyl formats.
Sep 28, 2017 2:20 PM
Producer Nico Segal is best known as the architect behind 2015’s pop masterpiece Surf, by The Social Experiment, a…
Don Was
Sep 25, 2017 6:12 PM
From vibraphonists Milt Jackson and Bobby Hutcherson to pianist Geri Allen and trumpeter Terence Blanchard, Blue Note…
Christian McBride leads his namesake big band at the 2017 Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island.
Sep 11, 2017 9:01 PM
After a six-year wait, renowned bassist Christian McBride reunites with his big band to release Bringin’ It, the…
Sean Jones performs at the Pittsburgh JazzLive Festival as part of a string concerts that ran June 16–18.
Aug 29, 2017 2:43 PM
A longtime time professor of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, trumpeter Sean Jones has served as Brass Chair at the…
