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    Joshua Redman performed along with Snarky Puppy bassist Michael League at the second annual GroundUP Music Festival in Miami Beach, Florida, which ran Feb. 9-11.

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    Nico Segal (left) and Julian Reid of the JuJu Exchange. The group’s debut album, Exchange, is available in digital and vinyl formats.

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    Jon Batiste & Stay Human lead a second line through the crowd during the 2017 Louis Armstrong’s Wonderful World Festival at Flushing Meadows Corona Park on July 8 in New York City.

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    The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performs Billy Wilson’s Winter In Lisbon.

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    Members of the Sai Anantam Singers perform during a tribute to Alice Coltrane at the Knockdown Center in Queens, New York, on May 21.

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    Steve Coleman is developing material for a forthcoming live album.

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    Keith Jarrett (seen here in a publicity photo) performed a solo concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City on Feb. 15.

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    Carlos Henriquez (pictured) helmed an octet celebrating the Latin side of Dizzy Gillespie at Jazz at Lincoln Center from Jan. 26–28.

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    Leslie Odom Jr.

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    John Mayer (foreground) and Pino Palladino perform at the 15th annual Jazz Foundation of America Gala in New York on Oct. 27.

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    Elio Villafranca performs Letters To Mother Africa at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York.

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    Joey Alexander (left), Dan Chmielinski and Ulysses Owens Jr. celebrate the release of Countdown in New York on Sept. 30.

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    Trumpeters Ingrid Jensen (left), Jason Palmer, Theo Croker, Darren Barrett, Maurice Brown and Marquis Hill perform at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola on Sept. 21

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    Fred Hersch (left) and Scott Morgan perform at The Kitano in New York on Sept. 15.

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    Singer Tierney Sutton has a new album, The Sting Variations, and she helped score Clint Eastwood’s film Sully, which arrives in theaters Sept. 9.

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    Ron Carter will serve as artist-in-residence of the 2016 Detroit Jazz Festival, which takes place Sept. 2–5 in downtown Detroit.

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    Jimmy Greene will perform at the Litchfield Jazz Festival, which takes place Aug. 6–7 in Goshen, Connecticut. Greene’s 2014 CD is titlted Beautiful Life.

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    Ann E. Ward (1949–2016)

    Aug 12, 2016 1:05 PM

    AACM Pianist Ann E. Ward Dies at 67

    Pianist and educator Ann E. Ward, one of the most recognized female composers of the Association for the Advancement of…

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    Rickey Washington (left), Tony Austin, Kamasi Washington and Miles Mosley perform at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago on July 17.

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    Chick Corea (left), Christian McBride and Brian Blade perform during the Tri-C Jazz Festival in Cleveland on June 24.

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    Dee Dee Bridgewater (pictured), Dave Holland, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Dick Hyman and Ira Gitler have been named the 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters.

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    Kamasi Washington will perform at the Pitchfork Music Fest in Chicago, which runs from July 15–17.

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    Saxophonist Greg Ward (left) and dancers Dalton Rhodes (foreground) and Mecca Madyun Ajanku perform at Constellation in Chicago on June 3.

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    Lewis Nash (left), Joe Lovano, George Mraz and Hank Jones at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island, on August 14, 2005.

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    Walter Smith III will join the faculty of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University later this summer.

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    Frank Sinatra will be the subject of a new stage musical scheduled for release in 2018.

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    Verve will release eight essential Diana Krall albums as 180-gram, 2-LP vinyl releases.

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    Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1935–1977) was a multi-instrumentalist who blended political activism with jazz.

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    Joe Temperley (1929–2016)

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    Matana Roberts is among the recipients of the 2016 Doris Duke Artist Awards for jazz.

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    Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on April 22.

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    Ron Carter will serve as artist-in-residence of the 2016 Detroit Jazz Festival, which takes place Sept. 2–5 in downtown Detroit. (Photo: Fortuna Sung)

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    Al Jarreau is among the headliners for the 2016 Blue Note Jazz Festival, which takes place June 1–30 (Photo: Marina Chavez)

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    Chick Corea will perform at the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival in Rochester, New York, on June 28.

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    The Pat Metheny Unity Group will release The Unity Sessions, one of two new albums from the guitarist on Nonesuch Records, on May 6

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    Norah Jones will headline both the Newport Jazz Festival and Newport Folk Festival this year.

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    Frank Sinatra Jr. (1944–2016) performs at the Seminole Casino in Coconut Creek, Florida, in 2012.

    Mar 28, 2016 10:38 AM

    Frank Sinatra Jr. Dies at 72

    Frank Sinatra Jr., who helped extend his father’s legacy into the 21st century while carving out his own distinct…

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    Sonny Rollins will release Holding The Stage: Road Shows, Vol. 4 (Doxy/OKeh) digitally on April 8 and on CD April 15.

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    Ethan Hawke stars as Chet Baker in the film Born to be Blue.

    Mar 22, 2016 2:30 PM

    Miles & Chet on the Silver Screen

    Fans of jazz trumpet and cinema will have plenty to chew on in the coming weeks as two of the most iconic figures in…

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    Bassist Christian McBride will be the next artistic director of the Newport Jazz Festival

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    René Marie will release Sound Of Red on Motéma Music on May 13.

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    The U.S. Postal Service will honor jazz vocalist Sarah Vaughan (1924–’90) with a commemorative Forever Stamp in a ceremony in Newark, New Jersey, on March 29.

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    Ryan Truesdell (right) conducts the Gil Evans Project featuring Donny McCaslin (left) during the Elmhurst College Jazz Festival in Elmhurst, Illinois, on Feb. 26.

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    Ella Fitzgerald is one of the classic jazz artists whose albums will be reissued by Verve in 2016.

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    Ethan Hawke stars as jazz trumpeter Chet Baker in the biopic Born to be Blue

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    Jazzmeia Horn will performa at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center on Feb. 20 as part of the “Monk-In-Motion” series.

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    Cécile McLorin Salvant won the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal album for For One To Love (Mack Avenue)

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    Jazz Record Mart has closed after more than 50 years of busines.

    Feb 29, 2016 4:27 PM

    Chicago’s Jazz Record Mart Closes

    Chicago’s Jazz Record Mart, the self-proclaimed “Largest Jazz and Blues Record Store,” has closed after more than…

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