May 13, 2021 2:08 PM
Wadada Leo Smith — Across the Threshold
During decades of recording and work alongside a cast of co-conspirators that could serve as a summation of jazz’s…
May 13, 2021 2:08 PM
During decades of recording and work alongside a cast of co-conspirators that could serve as a summation of jazz’s…
Mar 27, 2021 1:00 PM
The day before Joe Biden was sworn into office as president on Jan. 20, John Santos, ensconced in his East Bay home…
Feb 19, 2021 8:02 AM
Gary Bartz has watched the slow roll of history drag on, first from the vantage point of his childhood home in…
Jan 29, 2021 8:32 AM
A tangle of connections fosters the bounty of William Parker’s career. The bassist—who’s released a 10-album set…
Dec 30, 2020 8:55 AM
An uncanny lightness runs through There Is A Tide, saxophonist Chris Potter’s latest full-length album, one where he…
Dec 7, 2020 9:05 AM
Charlie Parker’s alto saxophone remains one of the most recognizable sounds in the history of recorded jazz, even 65…
Dec 7, 2020 9:04 AM
Charles Mingus—rightly or wrongly—is frequently characterized as a wildly inventive but frustrated composer, caught…
Nov 23, 2020 11:58 AM
Kuba Więcek is clicking the plunger of his pen with a kind of restlessness that’s manifested in his studies and…
Nov 5, 2020 9:20 AM
“Especially in the beginning, when we were kind of searching for ourselves—we were just playing music and we…
Nov 2, 2020 11:30 AM
5th Street Dick’s was a neighborhood coffee shop and venue in Los Angeles—now closed for about 20 years—where…
Oct 7, 2020 9:04 AM
On the three studio albums flugelhorn player Yazz Ahmed’s released, there’s a very clear unfolding of singular…
Jul 30, 2020 8:55 AM
The last time Chicago bassist Matt Ulery played a club gig was March 11.
Since then, like most musicians, he’s…
Aug 17, 2020 10:56 AM
In the pantheon of collaborative triumphs, musical partnerships like Billie Holiday and Lester Young or Miles Davis and…
Jun 22, 2020 9:10 AM
The travel industry’s indelible connection to the jazz ecosystem, like so many other economic niches, has been thrown…
Jul 15, 2020 9:06 AM
Pianist Matthew Shipp hasn’t been playing with anyone recently. Most musicians haven’t been, at least not in the…
Jun 17, 2020 8:56 AM
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Musicians around the globe had gigs, recording dates, mixing sessions—stuff to…
Jun 11, 2020 9:06 AM
As Jazzfest Passau in Germany plans to continue outdoor events and Portugal’s Jazz em Agosto adapts to its…
May 18, 2020 11:26 AM
Ethan Iverson is almost as good at Twitter as he is at piano.
Whether folks have come to his music through recent…
May 18, 2020 2:04 PM
Pi Recordings, the New York label focused on avant sounds for the past two decades, has hit pause on its regular…
Apr 6, 2020 10:24 AM
Recently, saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa was making black bean soup at his home in New Jersey. From scratch.
It had…
Nov 7, 2019 11:11 AM
From his time hitting New York clubs as a kid to his brief stint at Berklee and years spent leading his own bands,…
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The Rhine cuts a crooked line through Northwest Germany, arching westward gradually, making it easy to compare the…
Jul 12, 2019 9:42 AM
On a train traveling from Hamburg to Bremen, Germany, a Scott Joplin rag tumbles out of a passenger’s mobile phone,…
Mar 14, 2019 10:38 AM
In the past, improvising pianist Matt Piet’s worked alongside jugglers on a cruise ship. His recent output’s more…
Oct 19, 2018 9:34 AM
Joshua Abrams wants a refill on his coffee.
Backlit by afternoon sun streaming into Groundswell Coffee Roasters on…
Nov 2, 2018 11:07 AM
They grew up thousands of miles apart, but still found each other and seem to share a bond over TV shows like The Time…
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“This is the most useful tool for international networking in Europe,” said Cyril Moshkow, board member of the…
Mar 8, 2018 9:27 AM
The Big Ears festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, is set to return March 22-25 with performances by jazz luminaries like…
Jan 19, 2018 10:33 AM
The new film Milford Graves Full Mantis is as much a visual poem as it is a documentary.
The film—which examines not…
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