Oct 7, 2020 3:36 PM
Lakecia Benjamin’s Boundless Sensibility On Display
Lakecia Benjamin’s approach to jazz is influenced by the belief that Black music of all genres has a shared…
Lakecia Benjamin is among the 25 artists DownBeat thinks will help shape jazz in the decades to come.
Oct 7, 2020 3:36 PM
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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