May 26, 2016 5:48 PM
Unheard Bird Features Dozens of Unreleased Charlie Parker Tracks
Rudresh Mahanthappa’s album Bird Calls (ACT), which topped the Jazz Album category in the 2015 DownBeat Critics Poll,…
The new album Unheard Bird includes 58 previously unrleased studio takes that saxophonist Charlie Parker recorded in the periof of 1949–’52.
May 26, 2016 5:48 PM
Rudresh Mahanthappa’s album Bird Calls (ACT), which topped the Jazz Album category in the 2015 DownBeat Critics Poll,…
Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1935–1977) was a multi-instrumentalist who blended political activism with jazz.
May 26, 2016 5:45 PM
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, a groundbreaking reedist and social justice activist who built a reputation on his ability to play…
Sun Ra leads his Arkestra on the 1980 album Sunrise In Different Dimensions, which HatHut is reissuing on vinyl LP.
May 26, 2016 5:43 PM
Few people have followed jazz through more changes than Werner X. Uehlinger. Born in Switzerland in 1935, he first…
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…
Kamasi Washington (left) and Ryan Porter perform at Where Spaceways Meet: A Night of Spiritual Jazz, part of the Red Bull Music Academy Festival in Brooklyn on May 8.
May 18, 2016 1:01 PM
In the current climate of reconstituted knowledge—where a list of things you might not know or anything evoking Brian…
Grammy-winning drummer Ulysses Owens Jr. performs at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola in New York on April 29.
May 18, 2016 12:29 PM
In a celebration of “Ellington And Beyond,” the immensely talented drummer Ulysses Owens Jr. and his equally…
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