Feb 22, 2021 7:49 AM
Alonzo Demetrius Is Fueled By Activism
Trumpeter Alonzo Demetrius’ thirst for social justice is evident on his leader debut, Live From The Prison Nation.…
Alonzo Demetrius earned two degrees from Berklee College of Music.
Feb 22, 2021 7:49 AM
Trumpeter Alonzo Demetrius’ thirst for social justice is evident on his leader debut, Live From The Prison Nation.…
Mary Lou Williams’ long, fruitful career is lovingly chronicled by Tammy L. Kernodle in Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams, which has been published in paperback for the first time.
Dec 7, 2020 1:13 PM
Mary Lou Williams was an idiosyncratic composer, arranger and pianist whose 60-plus-year career remains ruthlessly hard…
Lakecia Benjamin is among 25 artists DownBeat predicts will help shape the future of jazz.
Oct 26, 2020 11:30 AM
Lakecia Benjamin’s approach to jazz is influenced by the belief that Black music of all genres has a shared…
Multi-instrumentalist Jon Batiste is facilitating a series of music-forward protests through his WE ARE organization.
Oct 19, 2020 10:30 AM
Wrapped in brick and converted from its previous life as an industrial space, the Constellation venue’s two separate…
In 1982, Mark Anthony Lee (center) recorded “I’m Just A Boogie Roller.”
Sep 2, 2020 9:03 AM
By 1976, the initial incarnation of Stax Records was gone from the musical landscape, but the dreams of superstardom it…
Vocalist Sarah Elizabeth Charles performs as a member of the group Ajoyo, as well as releasing music under her own name.
Aug 3, 2020 9:33 AM
Sarah Elizabeth Charles’ heritage manifests itself in her music in ways that both surprise and delight her.
The…
Thundercat is a second-generation product of the Los Angeles jazz scene: Drummer Ronald Bruner Sr., his father, gigged with saxophonist Rickey Washington, father of Kamasi Washington.
Jun 29, 2020 3:18 PM
Across four full-length efforts, Thundercat has pushed jazz into unknown territories. The bassist, though, remains…
Eddie Kendricks (1939–1992)
Feb 11, 2020 11:31 AM
By 1972, Eddie Kendricks, the Temptations singer who led the ensemble through classics like “Just My Imagination,”…
Errol Stubbs’ “Spaced Out On Your Love,” recorded in 1986, is included on a recent dispatch from Chicago’s Numero Group, Visible And Invisible Persons: Distributed In Space.
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When the songs on Visible And Invisible Persons: Distributed In Space initially were recorded, there was no…
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