Mar 22, 2016 2:37 PM
Weiss Salutes Jazz Drumming Legacy on Expansive New Album
Drummer Dan Weiss, who turns 40 this year, occupies a singular niche in jazz. A student of tabla virtuoso Samir…
Dan Weiss’ new album, Sixteen (Pi), pays tribute to iconic jazz drummers through orchestrated compositions.
Mar 22, 2016 2:37 PM
Drummer Dan Weiss, who turns 40 this year, occupies a singular niche in jazz. A student of tabla virtuoso Samir…
Jimmy Heath leads a 17-piece big band at the Blue Note in New York in honor of his 90th birthday
Mar 22, 2016 2:34 PM
When saxophone legend Jimmy Heath appeared at the Blue Note in New York City on March 9 in celebration of his 90th…
Mar 22, 2016 2:31 PM
Quincy Jones once described Ernestine Anderson’s voice as the “sound of honey at dusk.”
It was an accurate,…
Ethan Hawke stars as Chet Baker in the film Born to be Blue.
Mar 22, 2016 2:27 PM
Fans of jazz trumpet and cinema will have plenty to chew on in the coming weeks as two of the most iconic figures in…
Bassist Christian McBride will be the next artistic director of the Newport Jazz Festival
Mar 22, 2016 2:19 PM
Jazz impresario George Wein, founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, is stepping down from his directorial role after 62…
René Marie will release Sound Of Red on Motéma Music on May 13.
Mar 22, 2016 2:15 PM
Vocalist René Marie, a Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist with a style firmly rooted in the blues, will add another album…
Milt Jackson is one of the many jazz icons Robert James Campbell photographed during his career.
Mar 22, 2016 2:10 PM
In 2002, Jessica Ferber—then a University of Vermont grad working in a Burlington photo studio during the day and…
Victor Ryan Robertson (left) Kenneth Kellogg and Mark Hernandez in the production of Terence Blanchard’s Champion: An Opera In Jazz
Mar 22, 2016 2:02 PM
Trumpeter Terence Blanchard’s ambitious Champion: An Opera in Jazz, about the late bisexual boxer Emile Griffith, had…
Sarah Elizabeth Charles (left) sings a duet with high school student Hannah Coleman during a performance at the Harlem Stage Gatehouse in New York on Feb. 24.
Mar 22, 2016 1:52 PM
Forty-five minutes before showtime, fans were already lined up for vocalist Sarah Elizabeth Charles’s Neighborhood…
The U.S. Postal Service will honor jazz vocalist Sarah Vaughan (1924–’90) with a commemorative Forever Stamp in a ceremony in Newark, New Jersey, on March 29.
Mar 22, 2016 1:46 PM
Vocalist Sarah “Sassy” Vaughan will return to the spotlight yet again, thanks to a concert album and a…
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