Nov 28, 2018 11:00 AM
Herding Cats: Harlem 1958
Many jazz fans have seen the iconic image, but few know its complete backstory. On Aug. 12, 1958, graphic designer and…
The book Art Kane: Harlem 1958 explores the origin of one of the most famous photos in jazz history and includes this version, identifying the 57 musicians.
Nov 28, 2018 11:00 AM
Many jazz fans have seen the iconic image, but few know its complete backstory. On Aug. 12, 1958, graphic designer and…
Photographer Jack Bradley captured intimate moments of Louis Armstrong’s life between 1959 and 1971, the year of his death. Here, Armstrong (left) laughs with Miles Davis.
Nov 28, 2018 9:00 AM
For about two years, the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens, New York, has been translating thousands of physical…
ECM founder Manfred Eicher writes that he saw new possibilities in the improvised music of the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
Nov 27, 2018 10:21 AM
In the comprehensive, 296-page booklet that accompanies ECM’s 21-CD box set Art Ensemble Of Chicago And Associated…
Francesco Martinelli gives a presentation on his new book, The History of European Jazz, at the 2018 Jazz Fest Sarajevo in November.
Nov 27, 2018 10:14 AM
During late October and early November, journalist and author Francesco Martinelli—who serves as Director of the…
Alina Bzhezhinska currently is at work on a project that honors the music of Dorothy Ashby, another harpist who worked within the jazz idiom.
Nov 27, 2018 9:00 AM
Hailing from a firmly classical background, it was in part a discovery of Alice Coltrane’s work that helped steer…
Omara Portuondo performs at the Dominican Republic Jazz Festival.
Nov 26, 2018 4:00 PM
It’s not uncommon for contemporary jazz players to express the need for jazz to be taken to a new, younger generation…
Gospel star CeCe Winans’ new holiday album is titled Something’s Happening!
Nov 26, 2018 3:28 PM
Of the thousands of holiday albums that have hitched rides on Santa’s sleigh, just a couple are embedded in our…
John Legend is one of 21 artists whose new holiday albums are reviewed in our Yuletide Music Roundup.
Nov 26, 2018 11:55 AM
DownBeat offers cool gifts for everyone on your shopping list. Our 2018 Holiday Gift Guide is filled with books, vinyl…
The second volume in the Blue Note Review subscription series, Spirit & Time, focuses on drummers.
Nov 26, 2018 11:30 AM
The Blue Note label is following up its inaugural Blue Note Review set, 2017’s Peace, Love & Fishing, with a second…
Musicians perform during the 11th Fandango Fronterizo.
Nov 26, 2018 9:00 AM
Bandleader and pianist Arturo O’Farrill’s latest recording, Fandango At The Wall (Resilience Music Alliance),…
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