More Mingus? Thank you!
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Here’s even more great music to please your ears and satisfy your hunger for historically significant recordings.…
Saxophonist Javon Jackson and bassist Danton Boller at Louis Armstrong Center’s Jazz Room on March 1.
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Tonight, April 8, tenor saxophonist Javon Jackson will bring to the Village Vanguard a tribute to his late performing…
The Blue Note Jazz Festival New York kicks off May 27 with a James Moody 100th Birthday Celebration at Sony Hall.
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Blue Note Entertainment Group has unveiled the lineup for the 14th annual Blue Note Jazz Festival New York, featuring…
George Freeman, shown here at Chicago’s Green Mill, performed well into his 90s.
Apr 8, 2025 12:56 PM
Guitarist George Freeman, a mainstay of the Chicago jazz scene, died April 1 at age 97 — just days before being…
“The NDR Bigband is truly an ensemble for our times,” said Nikki Iles, principal conductor for the 2025–’26 season.
Apr 8, 2025 11:56 AM
British bandleader, pianist and composer Nikki Iles will be the new principal conductor of the Hamburg, Germany-based…
“It’s an honor and a blessing to be in this universe with Mr. Smith,” said Vijay Iyer, left, of Wadada Leo Smith, right, at the March 20 release party for their latest duo recording, Defiant Life (ECM).
Apr 1, 2025 8:43 AM
On March 20, the night before the release of Defiant Life, the new Vijay Iyer-Wadada Leo Smith duo album from ECM, the…
“In terms of what a singer is capable of making you feel, she is as good as it gets,” Cavassa said of Mahalia Jackson during a live Blindfold Test with DB’s Frank Alkyer.
Apr 1, 2025 8:30 AM
At the end of last summer, over the Labor Day weekend, vocalist Gabrielle Cavassa took time out from preparing for her…
The 47th Kennedy Center Honors featured a stellar group including The Grateful Dead, film director Francis Ford Coppola, Arturo Sandoval, Bonnie Raitt and The Apollo Theater. Will future Honors uphold these standards?
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Editor’s Note: The following served as the First Take column, which is our editor’s letter, in the April issue of…
Tommy Castro & The Painkillers
Apr 1, 2025 7:55 AM
Tommy Castro & The Painkillers: Closer To The Bone (Alligator; ★★★★ 50:25)
A bandleader for 30-plus years,…
“I love the fact that when some people think about my music they think of it as joyous, but there is darkness inside,” Anat Cohen says. “We are complex humans.”
Mar 25, 2025 12:10 PM
Anat Cohen, in conversation, is disarmingly present and fully invested. One gets the feeling that in most interactions…
