Joel Ross and Good Vibes celebrate the vinyl release of Kingmaker on Friday, Aug. 2 at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island. Ross—who also played with Makaya McCraven and with the collective In Common—performed three sets in two days during the festival.
Aug 7, 2019 4:02 PM
By the time Paul Gonsalves shook up Fort Adams with 27 blistering choruses in 1956, the Newport Jazz Festival already…
Saxophonist Hanna Paulsberg (left), vocalist Rohey Taalah and bassist Ellen Andrea Wang perform as Gurls during A l’arme! Festival, which ran July 31-Aug. 3 in Berlin.
Aug 7, 2019 10:40 AM
From its very beginnings jazz has functioned like a stylistic blob, driven by its practitioners to absorb, assimilate…
Norman Granz (1918–2001)
Mar 18, 2019 9:00 AM
The history of jazz offers a select group of rebels who profoundly bent its fortunes without ever playing a note of…
The Bowman Trio
Dec 12, 2018 9:00 AM
Scandinavian jazz is its own thing. Affective, free-spirited and daringly improvisational. Finnish jazz, a vibrant…
Maja S.K. Ratkje performs at the Rune Grammofon 20th anniversary celebration at Nasjonal Jazzscene in Oslo, Norway.
Dec 7, 2018 9:00 AM
Back in the ’80s, Rune Kristoffersen was a founding member of the Norwegian post-punk/new wave band Fra Lippo Lippi.…
Art Pepper (1925–1982)
Nov 21, 2018 10:48 AM
For many jazz fans, the high point of Art Pepper’s late-’70s comeback was a four-night stand at New York’s…
Stax ’68: A Memphis Story (Craft Recordings/Stax) features Isaac Hayes’ instrumental soul-jazz gem “Precious, Precious” and the blues-drenched “Going To Chicago Blues.”
Oct 17, 2018 10:59 AM
In December 1967, the plane shuttling vocalist Otis Redding and four members of the Bar-Kays between engagements…
Guitarist John Abercrombie (1944–2017)
Sep 10, 2018 9:00 AM
On 1999’s Open Land, guitarist John Abercrombie and his sextet played their way through a set of the bandleader’s…
Pianist Ramsey Lewis performs at the Chicago Jazz Festival on Sept. 1.
Sep 6, 2018 11:49 AM
Although singer Dianne Reeves’ set was cut short by a thunderstorm and alto saxophonist Maceo Parker proclaimed early…
Dave McMurray (left), Esperanza Spalding, Ravi Coltrane and Terri Lyne Carrington pay tribute to the late Geri Allen at the 2018 Detroit Jazz Festival.
Sep 4, 2018 4:08 PM
Over Labor Day weekend in Detroit, many buildings hung their flags at half-mast, as the city laid to rest its favorite…
