Nov 20, 2017 11:47 AM
Amid Straightahead High Points, Berlin Jazz Festival Takes Adventurous Paths
The Berlin Jazz Festival handily accomplished a two-fold mission to preserve its prodigious historical legacy while…
Tyshawn Sorey (left) leads a “conduction” performance at this year’s Berlin Jazz Festival.
Nov 20, 2017 11:47 AM
The Berlin Jazz Festival handily accomplished a two-fold mission to preserve its prodigious historical legacy while…
Bassist Dan Berglund (second from let) performs with his bandmates in Tonbruket at Studion Kulturhuset during the Stockholm Jazz Festival on Oct. 7.
Nov 20, 2017 11:08 AM
Born in the remote village of Pilgrimstad, Sweden (population: 386), bassist Dan Berglund is a musical institution on…
Marc Ribot performs at the 2017 Belgrade Jazz Festival.
Nov 17, 2017 1:40 PM
The Belgrade Jazz Festival is the ideal destination for after-midnight partying. Many such weekenders put their…
Snarky Puppy’s 2018 itinerary includes a show at Carnegie Hall, a festival in Miami and an extensive U.S. tour.
Nov 17, 2017 8:32 AM
Snarky Puppy, which was voted Jazz Group of the Year in the 2017 DownBeat Readers Poll, will begin its 2018 U.S. tour…
Saxophonist Chris Potter (left), bassist Dave Holland and tabla player Zakir Hussain of the band Crosscurrents.
Nov 16, 2017 5:33 PM
From John Coltrane in the ’60s to current stars Rudresh Mahanthappa and Dan Weiss in the 21st century, the influence…
Craft Recordings will release a limited-edition box set that includes all five of the 10-inch vinyl LPs Thelonious Monk recorded for the label, spanning the period 1952–’54.
Nov 16, 2017 12:39 PM
The 10-inch vinyl LP is relatively rare nowadays, but fans of the format—and of pianist-composer Thelonious…
Romero Lubambo (seated, left), George Garzone, Sean Jones and Marco Pignataro perform at the 2017 Dominican Republic Jazz Festival. (Bassist Nilson Matta is partially obscured.)
Nov 15, 2017 2:09 PM
Sun and cerulean sky rule the azure surf, as kite-riders curl arabesques and lively merengue jazz drifts over the…
Trumpeter Diogo Duque (left), saxophonist Ricardo Toscano and bassist Nelson Cascais onstage at the Hot Clube de Portugal in Lisbon, Portugal.
Nov 15, 2017 11:35 AM
Nobody knows exactly when jazz first arrived in Portugal, but what we do know the first person to promote jazz in…
Saxophonist Gilad Atzmon has released a new book, Being In Time–A Post-political Manifesto (Skyscraper)
Nov 15, 2017 11:32 AM
Saxophonist Gilad Atzmon, a former Israeli citizen living in London since 1994, remains a veritable planetary citizen,…
Vocalist Sara Serpa, a native of Portugal, is based in New York.
Nov 14, 2017 6:01 PM
Since moving to New York City from her native Lisbon, Portugal, in 2008, Sara Serpa has built a reputation as a…
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