Oct 20, 2020 11:58 AM
With The Specter Of Winter Looming, Venues Explore Paths Forward
Before the pandemic brought live music to a halt in March, Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen was riding high.
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Copenhagen’s Jazzhus Montmartre received no-strings-attached grant funding from its local city council, enabling the venue to soldier on amid the protracted coronavirus pandemic.
Oct 20, 2020 11:58 AM
Before the pandemic brought live music to a halt in March, Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen was riding high.
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James Francies is among the 25 artists DownBeat thinks will help shape jazz in the decades to come.
Oct 20, 2020 9:00 AM
With Flight, his spirited debut album released by Blue Note in 2018, pianist James Francies avoided musical…
Johnaye Kendrick is set to stream a performance with her quartet on Friday.
Oct 19, 2020 8:58 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Billy Childs’ work with the Dorian Wind Quintet served as a turning point in his writing.
Oct 16, 2020 8:58 AM
5th Street Dick’s was a neighborhood coffee shop and venue in Los Angeles—now closed for about 20 years—where…
Yussef Dayes is among the 25 artists DownBeat thinks will help shape jazz in the decades to come.
Oct 15, 2020 9:00 AM
“If you’re not working with people that are pushing you,” said drummer Yussef Dayes, “then it’s missing…
Theo Croker is among the 25 artists DownBeat thinks will help shape jazz in the decades to come.
Oct 14, 2020 9:00 AM
Trumpeter Theo Croker is tired of being boxed in as a jazz musician. He expressed that sentiment while also…
Charles McPherson researched what music at the time of King Solomon might have sounded like for the saxophonist’s latest recording, Jazz Dance Suites (Chazz Music).
Oct 13, 2020 8:58 AM
In the course of a career that has found him performing with the likes of Charles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie and Wynton…
Vocalist Kurt Elling is set to stream a performance on Friday.
Oct 12, 2020 8:55 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Recently unearthed trio recordings of Bob James from 1965 find the keyboardist and composer working in a surprising mode.
Oct 9, 2020 9:00 AM
Ever since his first forays into improvisation in the late 1950s and early ’60s, Bob James has considered the piano…
Lakecia Benjamin is among 25 artists DownBeat predicts will help shape the future of jazz.
Oct 8, 2020 9:00 AM
Lakecia Benjamin’s approach to jazz is influenced by the belief that Black music of all genres has a shared…
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