Oct 22, 2024 9:22 AM
Bill Charlap’s Inner Rebel
Hunched over a round table in the Algonquin Hotel — where, a century ago, New York’s reigning wits famously…
Bill Charlap with trio mates Kenny Washington, left, and Peter Washington, right.
Oct 22, 2024 9:22 AM
Hunched over a round table in the Algonquin Hotel — where, a century ago, New York’s reigning wits famously…
Chief Adjuah performing at this year’s Monterey Jazz Festival.
Oct 22, 2024 9:10 AM
To sustain any cultural intuition — and beyond that to refresh it — is a tall order. To keep faith with a…
“You want people to feel, no matter where they are, that they’re important to the music,” said Marcus Shelby about bandleading.
Oct 22, 2024 8:51 AM
One week after the conclusion of this year’s Healdsburg Jazz Festival, artistic director Marcus Shelby took a…
As part of Bimhuis’ October program, pianist Marta Warelis, right, debuted a sextet featuring cornetist Ben LaMar Gay, reedists Ab Baars and Karen Ng, and others.
Oct 22, 2024 8:40 AM
While some international jazz venues have been in continuous operation longer than the Bimhuis in Amsterdam, it’s…
Tini was a gifted jazz pianist and composer, choral conductor and consultant/clinician.
Oct 22, 2024 8:22 AM
Dennis J. Tini, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Music and Senior Associate Dean (retired) of Wayne State…
“With this record, I’m not trying to punish you,” Ndegeocello says of No More Water. “I’m trying to help you heal.”
Oct 15, 2024 1:06 PM
It was less a matter of “if” and more of “when.” Meshell Ndegeocello’s transfixing new album, No More Water:…
“The musical mission remains the same as it did 25 years ago: to make the best music possible in the given moment,” says drummer Jim Black of working again with trumpeter Natsuki Tamura.
Oct 15, 2024 12:55 PM
It was back in 1999 that volcanic forces were unleashed on White & Blue (Dutch Buzz Records), the second release by…
Multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee will play on opening night of Jazzfest Berlin with the London organ trio Decoy.
Oct 15, 2024 12:42 PM
Jazzfest Berlin has announced the program for its 60th anniversary edition, which will take place Oct. 31–Nov. 3 at…
“Nobody in jazz school is telling you to learn how to dance,” says bandleader Eyal Vilner (center). But he thinks maybe they should.
Oct 15, 2024 12:23 PM
When he was a music student in New York back in 2007, hanging out at Smalls every night, Eyal Vilner, much like his…
Cecil Taylor, one of the greatest pianists of the avant garde, was taken advantage of before his death in 2018.
Oct 8, 2024 12:37 PM
The Kyoto Prize is not as well-known as the Guggenheim fellowship, or the MacArthur grant, both of which pianist,…
