The “Good Trouble” band, from left, Jeff Lederer, Tia Fuller, Matt Wilson, Dawn Clement and Ben Allison.
Matt Wilson’s CommUnity
Mid-morning on the first Wednesday of April, Matt Wilson was making his weekly 75-minute drive from Baldwin, New York, a community of 30,000 near Long Island’s south shore, to the Conservatory of Music at SUNY–Purchase in Westchester,…
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We Love Vinyl! Get Ready for Record Store Day, April 20
This Saturday, April 20, promises to be yet another Record Store Day celebration for vinyl freaks spanning all genres of music. Exciting and important recordings from the realms of Jazz, Blues & Beyond have always been well represented among RSD offerings each year, and 2024 will be no exception. So, before you head out to your local record store on a 4/20 shopping spree, be sure to CLICK HERE and read DownBeat’s…
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On Oct. 8, 2022, Etienne Charles reopened Lincoln Center’s newly renovated David Geffen Hall with San Juan Hill, a lacerating new work he had written for the New York…
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Jazz singers are a rarified breed. Only a handful actually make it and sustain a career with any degree of national or international notoriety. They have to be uniformly steely…
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Jazz House Kids has announced the artist lineup and the slate of events for the summer-long 15th Anniversary of the Montclair Jazz Festival. Headliners include powerhouse vocalist…
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Forty-five years after a handful of jazz enthusiasts in the Canadian cities of Montreal and Ottawa transformed their love affairs with jazz into annual summer festivals, the two events are navigating through changing times.
While the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal introduced new leadership in 2020, this…
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The trees stand majestic and tall, twisting 75 feet into the air — 23 meters by local measure — with leafy canopies shooting out near the very top. More than a dozen of Italy’s umbrella pines, some more than 100 years old, greet visitors as they enter the spacious grounds of Rome’s Casa del Jazz, one of…
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For those seeking a truly unique jazz and blues getaway, perhaps a trip to Brazil is in order during late May into early June.
Celebrating its 20th annniversary, the Rios das Ostras Jazz and Blues Festival is planning a special blowout May 30–June 2 with more than 30 acts performing over the four days.
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For decades, the radar of important avant-garde musical culture, especially in North America, has steered artists and observers to the seemingly unlikely small town of Victoriaville, Quebec, in Canada. In 1982, intrepid festival founder and torch-keeper Michel Levasseur humbly launched Festival International Musique…
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When jazz fans think about great American cities for this music, Pittsburgh may not be high on their list. But it should be.
Consider the giants who were born, raised and established their careers there. Earl Hines. Ahmad Jamal. Art Blakey. Billy Strayhorn. Ray Brown. Mary Lou Williams. Billy Eckstine. For good…
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BY Frank Alkyer
Jacky Terrasson’s music has always been a marvelous melding of the complex and the understated. Moving On, his latest album, demonstrates both sides of this equation with fantastic results. There’s so much going on here. The theme of this recording comes…
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BY Michael J. West
Alto and soprano saxophonist Nicola Caminiti’s debut album is a thing of beauty. He identifies it as a somewhat abstruse concept album, “a non-chronological narration of my journey in this world.” While it explains the care he takes with the music, the…
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BY Ed Enright
Mike Holober’s Gotham Jazz Orchestra brings big-city virtuosity and rarefied sensibility to a double-disc, multi-movement program of original compositions inspired by the great outdoors and overflowing with the insights of its six protagonists: prominent…
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BY Frank Alkyer
Composer/conductor Jihye Lee has a keen sense of rhythm in her work. On her latest recording, Infinite Connections, Lee puts that affection and her powerful music on full display. The theme for the album rests on the profound memories Lee has of her…
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BY Michael J. West
Something is glorious in the state of Denmark. It’s this part-tough, part-tender, all-soulful trio session featuring Copenhagen-based father-and-son team Anders (Hammond organ) and Benjamin (tenor saxophone) Koppel. Their drummer-percussionist on this…
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RhythmTech Tongue Drums provide an evocative and expressive voice for percussionists, with a warm character similar to a hang drum. They offer an ideal way for musicians to experience these sounds, with steel construction for durability and excellent tone. RhythmTech Tongue Drums are available in…
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Orange Amplification’s Pyramid Audio System delivers powerful sound and connectivity. The compact, Bluetooth 5.0-enabled amplifier is designed with a wave-balanced analog sound spectrum formulated to sound pleasing to the ear, with a warm, clean sound shaped to limit ear fatigue. The Pyramid…
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by Dan Ouellette // April/2013
The picturesque stretch of Highway 1 along the Pacific Ocean coastline between San Francisco and Santa Cruz may not be as dramatic and isolated as the spectacular Big Sur drive farther south below Monterey. But, except for a few close-to-the-cliff curves where a car could accidentally soar off the pavement and plunge 100 feet to the jagged,…
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