Jan 31, 2013 8:19 AM
Butch Morris Dies at 65
Bandleader, conductor and cornetist Butch Morris died on Jan. 29 at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.,…
Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris (Photo: Cathie Marquesee)
Jan 31, 2013 8:19 AM
Bandleader, conductor and cornetist Butch Morris died on Jan. 29 at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.,…
Johnny “Hammond” Smith
Jan 30, 2013 11:08 AM
Organist Johnny “Hammond” Smith helped refine his instrument’s indelible groove when he started recording in the…
Susana Baca and Ernesto Hermoza (back) at the 2013 Panama Jazz Festival (Photo: Shannon J. Effinger)
Jan 30, 2013 9:38 AM
The 10th anniversary of the Panama Jazz Festival marked a pivotal year in the country’s development. Held in the…
2013 NEA Jazz Masters (seated from left) Eddie Palmieri, Mose Allison and Lou Donaldson with (standing) the NEA’s Joan Shigekawa and Wayne Brown (Photo: Michael G. Stewart)
Jan 22, 2013 7:22 AM
On Jan. 14, pianist Mose Allison, alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson, Village Vanguard owner Lorraine Gordon and pianist…
David Fiuczynski (left) and Rudresh Mahanthappa at Sullivan Hall on Jan. 12 (Photo: John Rogers/johnrogersnyc.com)
Jan 21, 2013 8:25 AM
Now expanded to six venues and more than 70 artists, Winter Jazzfest is New York’s annual State of the Music address.…
Chucho Valdés at Carnegie Hall (Photo: Fran Kaufman)
Dec 18, 2012 7:25 AM
When Dizzy Gillespie and Chano Pozo introduced Afro-Cuban jazz to the masses, they gave us world music—quite literally.…
Dec 17, 2012 9:09 AM
Over the weekend, DownBeat learned that one of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Newtown,…
Ravi Shankar (second from left) with Alice Coltrane, Ravi Coltrane and daughter Anoushka Shankar at New York’s Knitting Factory following a 1998 concert
Dec 12, 2012 5:42 AM
Sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar died on Dec. 11 at San Diego’s Scripps Hospital. Last week he underwent heart-valve…
McCoy Tyner (Photo: John Abbott)
Nov 12, 2012 4:20 AM
As part of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s John Coltrane Festival this fall, McCoy Tyner was a natural choice to tap into…
From left: Michael Basden, Grant Stewart and Dwayne Clemons performing at a candlelit Smalls post-Sandy (Photo: Sacha Lecca)
Nov 6, 2012 5:54 AM
As Hurricane Sandy swept across New York last week, the city’s jazz community was hit hard. Downtown clubs lost power…
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