Some of the artists with recent releases on Mack Avenue, acquired by Exceleration Music.
Jan 31, 2025 2:41 PM
Exceleration Music, a music company dedicated to independent music, has acquired Mack Avenue Music Group, a jazz label…
“If you don’t keep learning, your mind slows down,” Coleman says. “Use it or lose it.”
Jan 28, 2025 11:38 AM
PolyTropos/Of Many Turns — the title for Steve Coleman’s latest recording on Pi and his 33rd album overall —…
Rudresh Mahanthappa Hero Trio performs at Loove Labs Annex during Winter Jazzfest’s Brooklyn Marathon on Jan. 11.
Jan 28, 2025 11:33 AM
Brooklyn has long harbored a self-contained jazz (and broader music) scene of its own — but that’s not the subject…
A photo collage promoting artists slated to perform at this year’s jazzahead! showcase concerts.
Jan 28, 2025 11:11 AM
Full details of the showcase concerts for the 19th edition of jazzahead!, the world’s largest annual jazz industry…
Jan 28, 2025 10:52 AM
The Monterey Jazz Festival has implemented a new branding strategy to reflect an expanded vision that includes the…
Gerald and John Clayton at the family home in Altadena during a photo shoot for the June 2022 cover of DownBeat. The house was lost during the Los Angeles fires.
Jan 21, 2025 7:54 PM
Roy McCurdy and his wife had just finished eating dinner and were relaxing over coffee in their Altadena home, when he…
The new Bad Plus, from left, Chris Speed, Reid Anderson, Dave King and Ben Monder.
Jan 21, 2025 7:48 PM
Especially by the fickle standards of jazz band shelf lives, The Bad Plus has enjoyed a very good run. With the release…
The Old Country: More From The Deer Head Inn arrives 30 years after ECM issued the Keith Jarret Trio live album At The Deer Head Inn.
Jan 21, 2025 7:38 PM
Last November, Keith Jarrett, who has not played publicly since suffering two strokes in 2018, greenlighted ECM to drop…
“It’s not older music. It’s our music,” says James Inglehart, who plays Louis Armstrong in a new musical on Broadway.
Jan 21, 2025 7:27 PM
Louis Armstrong’s career was long, diverse and full of the unexpected — both on stage and off. DownBeat often…
“The first recording I owned with Brazilian music on it was Wayne Shorter’s Native Dancer,” says Renee Rosnes. “And then I just started to go down the rabbit hole.”
Jan 16, 2025 2:02 PM
In her four-decade career, Renee Rosnes has been recognized as a singular voice, both as a jazz composer and a…
