May 26, 2016 5:41 PM
Moers Festival Gives Jazz Artists Opportunity to Branch Out
Thanks to its adventurous annual music festival, the small northwestern German town of Moers has built up a legendary…
Arve Henriksen of Warped Dreamer performs at the 2016 Moers Festival in Moers, Germany.
May 26, 2016 5:41 PM
Thanks to its adventurous annual music festival, the small northwestern German town of Moers has built up a legendary…
The Mary Lou Williams Festival in Washington, D.C., honors the late singer and pianist, pictured here, who died in 1981.
May 26, 2016 5:37 PM
“A drum is a woman” could have easily served as the subtitle for the second night of the 21st annual Mary Lou…
Taylor Eigsti performs during the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on May 12.
May 26, 2016 5:34 PM
In the first of two sold-out sets at Bell’s Eccentric Café in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the Irving S. Gilmore…
Chris Potter performs at the Jazzkaar Festival in Tallinn, Estonia, on April 27.
May 26, 2016 5:31 PM
The Jazzkaar festival has been an annual event in Tallinn, Estonia, since 1990, when the Soviet period was coming to an…
Jason Adasiewicz (left), Steve Noble, John Edwards and Peter Brötzmann perform at the Art Institute of Chicago on May 21.
May 25, 2016 5:22 PM
Before Peter Brötzmann gained renown as a musician, he was a German art student who played clarinet in a Dixieland band…
Detroit band Tiles is drummer Mark Evans (left), guitarist Chris Herin, lead vocalist Paul Rarick and bassist Jeff Whittle.
May 18, 2016 12:00 PM
The term progressive rock conjures a plethora of musical concepts and visual images: complex song structures, extended…
A still from the trailer for Eat That Question: Frank Zappa In His Own Words, a new documentary about the pioneering guitarist-composer-bandleader.
May 18, 2016 11:57 AM
Guitarist, composer, bandleader, filmmaker, satirist, outspoken social commentator, political gadfly, irascible…
Keith Jarrett, seen here in a publicity photo, performed at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles on April 29.
May 18, 2016 11:54 AM
Fifty years after arriving on the international jazz scene, pianist Keith Jarrett remains one of its greatest…
Keyon Harrold (clockwise, from top left), BIGYUKI and Just in Brown were among the artists who celebrated Revive Music’s 10-year anniversary in New York on April 19.
May 18, 2016 11:50 AM
Revive Music brought artists from its popular roster to Le Poisson Rouge in Manhattan on April 19, debuting its “Blue…
Dave Holland (background, second from left) sits in with the NEC Jazz Orchestra under the in Boston on April 21
May 2, 2016 1:20 PM
Kenny Wheeler stood short and was most self-effacing, but wrote unerringly for spacious long forms, and left a legacy…
