Dec 11, 2018 9:30 AM
We Jazz Festival Fosters Surprise and Discovery in Helsinki
An important event on the Helsinki jazz scene, now in its sixth year, We Jazz has made a point of staging shows in…
Trumpeter Verneri Pohjola and drummer Mika Kallio perform during a screening of “Eläimen Kuva” at the We Jazz Festival, which ran Dec. 2-9 in Helsinki, Finland.
Dec 11, 2018 9:30 AM
An important event on the Helsinki jazz scene, now in its sixth year, We Jazz has made a point of staging shows in…
Guitarist John Scofield and his Combo 66 quartet recently wrapped up a run at New York’s Blue Note Jazz Club.
Dec 10, 2018 9:28 AM
John Scofield’s Combo 66 quartet was explosive during its second set at New York’s Blue Note Jazz Club on Dec. 2.
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For his latest album, Combo 66, guitarist John Scofield enlisted drummer Bill Stewart, pianist/organist Gerald Clayton and bassist Vicente Archer.
Dec 10, 2018 9:00 AM
It’s November 1982, and 30-year-old John Scofield is in Cleveland to audition for Miles Davis’ group. The Man With…
Vocalist and composer Cécile McLorin Salvant is among the nominees for the 61st annual Grammy Awards.
Dec 7, 2018 12:32 PM
Trumpeter/bandleader John Daversa, vocalists Kurt Elling and Cécile McLorin Salvant, pianist Brad Mehldau, saxophonist…
Maja S.K. Ratkje performs at the Rune Grammofon 20th anniversary celebration at Nasjonal Jazzscene in Oslo, Norway.
Dec 7, 2018 9:00 AM
Back in the ’80s, Rune Kristoffersen was a founding member of the Norwegian post-punk/new wave band Fra Lippo Lippi.…
Dec 7, 2018 8:55 AM
Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute has opened submissions for its second annual Bridges competition.
The David Baker…
Rajiv Halim has worked with Chance The Rapper, among others, in addition to leading his own troupe.
Dec 6, 2018 9:00 AM
Rajiv Halim will tell it to you straight. He’s ready to talk about today.
“A lot of people are stuck in the…
Multi-reedist and educator Greg Fishman has published three volumes of his Jazz Saxophone Etudes series.
Dec 5, 2018 9:00 AM
Saxophones surround multi-reedist Greg Fishman every time he walks into his Evanston, Illinois, studio and he’d never…
Concord Label Group president John Burk (left), Monk Competition winner Tom Oren and Thelonious Monk Institute chairman Herbie Hancock
Dec 4, 2018 9:24 AM
The winner of this year’s Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz competition, Tom Oren, hails from Tel Aviv, Israel—a…
Singer Lizz Wright moved to Chicago in 2017 to serve on the board of the Little Black Pearl Art & Design Academy, which offers arts education and technical training courses in the Kenwood neighborhood on the city’s South Side.
Dec 4, 2018 9:00 AM
Vocalist Lizz Wright has much to be proud of, including her latest accolade: Her latest release, Grace (Concord),…
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