Nov 18, 2019 11:47 AM
Marta Sánchez Avoids the Obvious on ‘El Rayo De Luz’
In conversation, Spanish pianist and composer Marta Sánchez dispenses ideas that seem to ripple and flow…
Pianist Marta Sánchez augments her quintet for El Rayo De Luz, the pianist’s fifth leader date.
Nov 18, 2019 11:47 AM
In conversation, Spanish pianist and composer Marta Sánchez dispenses ideas that seem to ripple and flow…
Before she staked her claim on the Central Avenue jazz scene in Los Angeles, trumpeter Clora Bryant was a featured soloist in the International Sweethearts of Rhythm.
Nov 18, 2019 10:28 AM
Clora Bryant, a fiery trumpet player who broke gender barriers with her horn, swung with the Louis Armstrong and Dizzy…
Trumpeter Dave Douglas (second from left) convenes a new ensemble for ENGAGE, an album-length meditation on the current political moment.
Nov 18, 2019 9:00 AM
A stellar trumpeter who organically has straddled the inside-outside aesthetic for nearly 30 years, Dave Douglas…
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah values cultural pluralism in American storytelling.
Nov 15, 2019 9:01 AM
Long before Nina Simone told a Carnegie Hall audience in 1964 that she meant every word of “Mississippi Goddam,”…
Robert Glasper (foreground) and Herbie Hancock in a scene from the documentary Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes.
Nov 14, 2019 9:00 AM
Swiss-born director Sophie Huber’s Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes (Eagle Vision), which coincides with the…
Joel Paterson explores the music of The Beatles on his new instrumental album, Let It Be Guitar!
Nov 13, 2019 4:48 PM
Fifty years after The Beatles’ last public appearance, the lads from Liverpool continue to inspire musicians from…
A new biography of blues guitarist-singer Stevie Ray Vaughan is titled after his 1983 album, Texas Flood.
Nov 13, 2019 9:00 AM
What made Stevie Ray Vaughan great? Nearly 30 years after the Texas guitar slinger’s tragic death, music journalists…
Trumpeter and flugelhornist Yazz Ahmed celebrates the accomplishments of others on Polyhymnia, a work released through the Ropeadope imprint.
Nov 12, 2019 8:10 AM
Polyhymnia is a clear demonstration that Yazz Ahmed’s global awareness and pursuit of thought-provoking music…
Anthony Braxton performs Nov. 3 with his Zim Music ensemble during Jazzfest Berlin.
Nov 11, 2019 3:12 PM
Halfway through composer and multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton’s six-hour opening performance at Jazzfest Berlin,…
Wayne Horvitz conducts the Seattle Modern Orchestra during the Earshot Jazz Festival, which ran Oct. 4–Nov. 6 in Seattle.
Nov 11, 2019 9:48 AM
Seattle’s Earshot Jazz Festival, a five-week fall marathon known for forward-looking programming, presented 56…
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