Feb 24, 2026 12:00 PM
Blindfold Test: Nicole Zuraitis
After earning the 2024 Best Jazz Vocal Album Grammy for her seventh album, How Love Begins (La Reserve), comprising 12…
Blindfold Test proctor Ted Panken, left, with the Grammy-winning Nicole Zuraitis.
Feb 24, 2026 12:00 PM
After earning the 2024 Best Jazz Vocal Album Grammy for her seventh album, How Love Begins (La Reserve), comprising 12…
Terri Lyne Carrington will teach at the HMTM’s Jazz Institute until the end of 2028.
Feb 24, 2026 11:56 AM
Jazz drummer, composer, producer and educator Terri Lyne Carrington is the new Top Professor at the University of Music…
“To go solo is a balancing act because on one hand you need to stand your ground but on the other you’re stepping into a realm of extreme honesty,” Wojtek Mazolewski says.
Feb 24, 2026 11:41 AM
Over the past two decades, 49-year-old Polish bassist and composer Mazolewski has made his signature the restless…
“I always believe in having a positive message,” says drummer Brandon Sanders. “I want to touch my audience’s heart and get them to start listening to jazz.”
Feb 24, 2026 11:36 AM
When drummer Brandon Sanders walked onto the main stage at Dizzy’s Club in November for the release of his third…
Performing at MSM Summer in New York.
Feb 19, 2026 11:02 AM
Welcome to DownBeat’s annual guide to jazz camps and beyond! In this handy guide, you’ll find the camp that’s…
New Orleans Trad Jazz Camp
Feb 19, 2026 10:39 AM
Jazz camps have exploded around the globe as a summertime tradition for working on your chops and making new friends.…
Performing at the Frost Summer Intensive.
Feb 19, 2026 10:21 AM
Congratulations! You’ve decided to apply to a summer jazz camp for the first time. But along with the excitement of…
Lettuce, from left: Eric Coomes, Adam Deitch, Ryan Zoidis, Eric Bloom, Adam Smirnoff and Nigel Hall
Feb 17, 2026 11:05 AM
They were Berklee misfits. Neither jazzy enough for the straightahead crowd at Boston’s highly prestigious College of…
“It’s a fact — I love drummers,” says Jane Ira Bloom of working with Brian Shankar Adler. “I just light up next to the rhythmic energy of drums and percussion.”
Feb 17, 2026 11:00 AM
By some conceptual standards, the art of an effective duo is rooted in a central paradox. The objective is to celebrate…
Drummer Chad Taylor’s quintet for his new recording, Smoke Shifter, from left: Bryan Rogers, Matt Engle, Taylor, Jonathan Finlayson and Victor Vieira-Branco
Feb 17, 2026 10:56 AM
It is perhaps inevitable that Chad Taylor will forever be associated with Chicago. The drummer and composer played a…
