Jun 10, 2025 4:13 PM
Theo Croker’s Dream … Manifested!
Partway through his early set at Smoke Jazz Club, Theo Croker blinks the room back into focus. He leans over the piano.…
To record Dream Manifest (Dom Recs), Croker convened artists from his current and recent past ensembles, plus special guests.
Jun 10, 2025 4:13 PM
Partway through his early set at Smoke Jazz Club, Theo Croker blinks the room back into focus. He leans over the piano.…
“I eventually want to keep experimenting with being able to add my own granito de arena, my little thing that I can add to it,” says Lucía about her brand of jazz with a Mexican flavor.
Jun 10, 2025 4:05 PM
In March, when asked about how she first encountered jazz, Mexican vocalist Lucía shared that, at first, “I thought…
“I like to think of composition, especially in jazz, as setting up a system of constraints and finding the freedom within those constraints,” said pianist Dan Tepfer, shown here with saxophonist Ben Wendel.
Jun 10, 2025 3:55 PM
On the night of May 16, Dan Tepfer found himself working on the 68th floor of an apartment tower directly across the…
“Billy was very friendly to me when I was young. One of my greatest inspirations,” said drummer Bill Goodwin about fellow drummer Billy Higgins.
Jun 10, 2025 3:44 PM
Drummer Bill Goodwin, who turned 83 three days after his first Blindfold Test, has played with, known and heard just…
Foster was truly a drummer to the stars, including Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins and Joe Henderson.
Jun 3, 2025 11:25 AM
Al Foster, a drummer regarded for his fluency across the bebop, post-bop and funk/fusion lineages of jazz, died May 28…
Elena Pinderhughes (left), Paquito D’Rivera, Birsa Chatterjee, Jon Faddis and Terri Lyne Carrington at the James Moody Centennial Celebration.
Jun 3, 2025 11:05 AM
In the spring and summer of 2000, while reporting a DownBeat profile framed around James Moody’s 75th birthday…
Harry Schnipper, owner of Blues Alley, which will celebrate its 60th anniversary on July 21.
Jun 3, 2025 10:46 AM
On a Thursday afternoon in early March, the lights are dimmed inside Blues Alley as employees polish tables and scrub…
Benny Benack III and his quartet took the Midwest Jazz Collective’s route for a test run this spring.
Jun 3, 2025 10:31 AM
The time and labor required to tour is, for many musicians, daunting at best and prohibitive at worst. It’s hardly…
“I’ve had no shortage of encounters and new relationships with people on the West Coast that have been super inspiring and amazing,” says Lehman of his move to Los Angeles.
May 27, 2025 6:32 PM
It’s a little after noon in Valencia, California, 30 minutes from downtown Los Angeles. Outside on a bench at…
Roscoe Mitchell will receive a Lifetime Achievement award at this year’s Vision Festival.
May 27, 2025 6:21 PM
Arts for Art has announced the full lineup for the 2025 Vision Festival, which will run June 2–7 at Roulette…
