Daymé Arocena performs June 9 during the Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
Jun 12, 2018 4:40 PM
For the first time in its 40-year history, the Playboy Jazz Festival returned to the Hollywood Bowl without its…
Ambrose Akinmusire and Kris Davis perform in New York at Vision Festival, which ran May 23-28.
Jun 5, 2018 9:21 AM
“The bad guys, the expletive, blanket-y blanks—those guys are busy messing up our lives,” Vision Festival founder…
Ryan Truesdell directs the Gil Evans Project during May performances at the Jazz Standard in New York.
Jun 4, 2018 2:22 PM
When Ryan Truesdell was asked to catalog the manuscripts of Gil Evans by the late arranger-composer’s family, the…
Yissy Garcia at Artes De Cuba: From The Island To The World
May 29, 2018 7:29 PM
Fábrica De Arte Cubano, a former cooking-oil plant turned multimedia-arts venue, is one of the most fabulous places in…
Storløkken’s Twilight Saloon performs at the Dokkhuset venue during Norway’s Trondheim Jazzfestival.
May 24, 2018 9:00 AM
Celebrating its 39th installment, Norway’s Trondheim Jazzfestival, which ran May 8-13, slotted starry Americans…
May 22, 2018 9:40 PM
One of the most influential and versatile improvisers of the late 20th century, Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia…
Bassist-composer Mario Pavone (left) led his Dialect Trio, which also includes drummer Tyshawn Sorey and pianist Matt Mitchell, through a pair of sets Friday, May 18 at Firehouse 12 in New Haven, Connecticut.
May 22, 2018 9:00 AM
Bassist-composer and Connecticut’s favorite son Mario Pavone brought his dynamic Dialect Trio—featuring outstanding…
LYAMBIKO performs at Jazzfest Bonn.
May 16, 2018 1:46 PM
A serious musical lineage long has been part of the civic bone structure of Bonn, Germany.
Most famously, it is the…
Charles Lloyd performs at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on April 28.
May 15, 2018 9:52 AM
When all the gumbo’s been digested following seven days of music at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, it…
Jamaaladeen Tacuma (left) and Denardo Coleman perform April 29 at the Outsiders Improvised and Creative Music Festival in Philadelphia.
May 10, 2018 9:37 AM
The final show of electric bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma’s fourth annual Outsiders Improvised and Creative Music…
