Jun 14, 2022 12:00 PM
Willard Jenkins To Host Head-to-Head Jazz Trivia Series
Savage Content has announced a new web series where guests compete head-to-head in a test of their jazz knowledge. The…
Jun 14, 2022 12:00 PM
Savage Content has announced a new web series where guests compete head-to-head in a test of their jazz knowledge. The…
The friendship that exists between Matthew Stevens (left) and Walter Smith III dates back when they were both members of Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah’s band during the mid-to-late aughts.
Jun 7, 2022 4:00 PM
Even when speaking with Walter Smith III and Matthew Stevens on Zoom — with the tenor saxophonist being in Boston and…
Saxophonist Kamasi Washington is slated to play this year’s Montreal Jazz Festival.
Jun 7, 2022 3:15 PM
“The revenge against the pandemic” is how Maurin Auxéméry, director of booking, programming cultural events for…
Edmar Castaneda performs at the eighth-annual Chicago Jazz String Summit.
Jun 7, 2022 2:55 PM
Cellist Tomeka Reid is wildly playful and a ball of energy in person but sober and serious in performance. Her…
Vocalist Sheila Jordan was honored for Lifetime Achievement in the Jazz Journalists Association’s 27th annual JJA Jazz Awards.
Jun 7, 2022 2:52 PM
Singer Sheila Jordan, who at age 93 calls herself a “jazz child,” was hailed for her Lifetime Achievement in Jazz…
Jen Shyu is a co-founder of Mutual Mentorship for Musicians, which presents its inaugural in-person M³ Festival June 16–18 and 21–22 in New York.
Jun 7, 2022 2:51 PM
When the COVID-19 lockdown began in March 2020, musicians Jen Shyu and Sara Serpa co-founded Mutual Mentorship for…
Danilo Pérez has turned his music into a family-driven, relentless mission to unite the world.
May 31, 2022 12:33 PM
Large buzzards, called Gallinazos in Spanish, glide between the skyscrapers of downtown Panama City. They hover like…
Russell’s ability to captivate an audience is a well-honed craft.
May 31, 2022 12:11 PM
The energy at New York’s Birdland felt restless and distracted. When the band started playing “Honeysuckle Rose,”…
Bounce pioneers Mannie Fresh and Big Freedia and other guests join Galactic on “Act Like You Know.”
May 31, 2022 12:07 PM
Anyone who has spent time in New Orleans knows why it is also known as The City That Care Forgot. Between the music and…
The Roxy Coss Quintet proves to be much more than the sum of its Disparate Parts, an aptly named new album on Outside in Music.
May 31, 2022 12:06 PM
Roxy Coss first made her name as a force to be reckoned with on The Future Is Female (Posi-Tone, 2017), her provocative…
