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    Norah Jones performs live, for the first time since COVID-19, during the JFA Gala on June 30.

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    Carla Bley, the 2021 critics’ choice for the DownBeat Hall of Fame

    Aug 17, 2021 12:42 PM

    Carla Bley: The Voice

    Given the tenor of the times, Carla Bley’s extraordinary career shouldn’t have happened. What were the chances…

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    From left, Demian Cabaud, Ariel Bringuez, Jorge Rossy and Miguel Zenón interpret the music of the Ornette Coleman Quartet on Law Years.

    Jun 29, 2021 2:25 PM

    Zenón Finds Light in Ornette

    Once, when alto saxophonist Miguel Zenón was working as Charlie Haden’s sideman, Ornette Coleman joined his former…

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    Jennifer Wharton

    May 25, 2021 12:14 PM

    Jennifer Wharton: Trombone Ecstasy

    The trombone’s warm, reverberating sound often goes unappreciated, contends Jennifer Wharton. Look to jazz history…

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    For her new album, Yelena Eckemoff composed the music, wrote a narrative poem and created the album cover art.

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    On Flor (Edition), vocalist Gretchen Parlato speaks to the personal transformation that inspired her career hiatus.

    Feb 15, 2021 8:41 AM

    Gretchen Parlato In Bloom

    In 2014, Gretchen Parlato’s album Live In NYC earned her a Grammy nomination—a crowning glory to a decade of career…

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    During the pandemic, prolific saxophonist Ivo Perelman moved from Brooklyn to Brazil.

    Feb 9, 2021 9:02 AM

    Ivo Perelman’s Massive Oeuvre

    In 2020, soon after the pandemic reached Brooklyn, Ivo Perelman’s base of operation for decades, the tenor…

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    John Coltrane’s Blue World takes its name from a contrafact of Harold Arlen’s “Out Of This World.”

    Jan 18, 2021 11:17 AM

    John Coltrane, Out Of Obscurity

    In late June of 1964, in between Impulse Records studio dates for Crescent and A Love Supreme, saxophonist John…

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    Dayna Stephens released two career-expanding albums this year: the studio effort Liberty and Right Now! Live At The Village Vanguard.

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    Veronica Swift is among the 25 artists DownBeat thinks will help shape jazz in the decades to come.

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    Lakecia Benjamin performs Nov. 6 at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn as a part of Jazzfest Berlin, which this year included livestreamed performances from both sides of the Atlantic.

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    The members of Artemis are drummer Allison Miller (left), pianist and musical director Renee Rosnes, bassist Noriko Ueda, trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, clarinetist Anat Cohen and tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana.

    Sep 30, 2020 9:00 AM

    The Sheer Force Of Artemis

    Last fall, Blue Note Records made history by signing pianist Renee Rosnes’ adventurous septet, Artemis, to its…

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    Saxophonist Kamasi Washington performs during the 2019 Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island.

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    A portion of the proceeds from Somi’s latest album, Holy Room: Live At Alte Oper With Frankfurt Radio Big Band, go to benefit the Black Art Futures Fund.

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    Joey DeFrancesco, widely celebrated as an organist, also sings and plays trumpet and tenor saxophone.

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    Andy Milne is fascinated by the connections among medical science, music and healing.

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    On a series of recent and upcoming projects, keyboardist John Medeski explores musical relationships that, in some cases, stretch back decades.

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    Aruán Ortiz (left), Andrew Cyrille and Mauricio Herrera perform together on Inside Rhythmic Falls (Intakt).

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    Lakecia Benjamin’s latest album features compositions by Alice Coltrane and John Coltrane.

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    Hal Galper didn’t recognize his own playing when he first heard the recording of The Zone: Live At The Yardbird Suite.

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    Over the course of his career, Pat Metheny has edged closer to the orchestral vision reflected on his latest release, From This Place.

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    Despite pianist Fred Hersch’s onstage composure, when he plays, there’s always something intensely personal stirring just below the surface.

    Mar 12, 2020 5:13 PM

    Fred Hersch Trio Commands the Room

    The box set The Fred Hersch Trio: 10 Years/6 Discs captures a landmark ensemble in the studio, on the road and at its…

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    ​Vocalist Nona Hendryx performs Feb. 29 during Nona Hendryx and Disciples of Sun Ra in the Temple, an event celebrating the bandleader and keyboardist, which was held in the Sackler Wing of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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    Kurt Elling’s latest recording finds the vocalist collaborating with pianist Danilo Pérez. Secrets Are The Best Stories (Edition) is set for release April 3.

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    Ted Nash conducts the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra during a presentation of Transformation with Glenn Close and Ted Nash.

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    Clarinetist Oran Etkin teaches children about instruments and songs from around the world.

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    Pianist Carmen Staaf leads a trio on Woodland, an album that’s included as part of Newvelle Records’ fifth season of high-end LP releases.

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    Saxophonists Samuel Blais (left), Donny McCaslin, David Binney and Dave Liebman make up the Four Visions Saxophone Quartet, a group that can trace its lineage back to jazz and the work of classical saxophonist Marcel Mule.

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    Pianists Chick Corea (left) and Chucho Valdés (foreground) perform during their first duo concert on Nov. 15 in the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York.

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    Egberto Gismonti flew to New York from his home in Brazil for ECM Records at 50, a Nov. 1 and 2 celebration of the imprint at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York.

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    French violinist Théo Ceccaldi performs with his ensemble, Freaks, during the Belgrade Jazz Festival, which ran Oct. 21-28 in the Serbian capital.

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    Adam Rudolph conducts the Go: Organic Orchestra at New York’s Rubin Museum of Art.

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    Terence Blanchard performs at the Belgrade Jazz Festival in 2009.

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    Céline Rudolph, shown here with collaborator Lionel Loueke, says her upbringing readied her to embrace a global vision of music.

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    Kenny Barron will release a three-disc set of duets with the late Mulgrew Miller on Oct. 18. The 76-year-old pianist and bandleader also has a trio project in the works with bassist Dave Holland and drummer Johnathan Blake.

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    Jazzmeia Horn’s begun writing a follow-up to her recently released album Love And Liberation and also started work on a book of poetry.

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    Sara Gazarek delves into self-reflection for Thirsty Ghost.

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    Bassist Michael Janisch helms Whirlwind Records and is set to release his latest leader date, Worlds Collide.

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    Mark Walker’s new leader album is titled You Get What You Give.

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    Sam Rivers (1923–2011)

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    Vocalist Sara Serpa’s work has explored how past events influence current human behavior.

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    James Francies arranged a version of Rufus’ “Ain’t Nobody” for his debut album, which was met with approval from the song’s original singer, Chaka Khan.

    Apr 13, 2020 1:26 PM

    A New Golden Age Of Pianists

    Jazz pianism today stands at an apex.

    There have been other moments in the music’s history when innovation rushed…

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    Drummer Andrew Cyrille (left), dancer Beatrice Capote and cellist Tomeka Reid perform June 11 during the 2019 Vision Festival at Brooklyn venue Roulette.

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    Bassist and bandleader Linda May Han Oh calls Aventurine her most ambitious compositional work to date.

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    Antonio Sánchez opens his latest album, Lines In The Sand, with a disturbing ontage of sirens and voices.

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    Guitarist and composer Hedvig Mollestad debuts a commission at the Vossa Jazz Festival, in Voss, Norway, on April 13.

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    Following a fire in her Rio de Janeiro home, improvising vocalist Claudia Villela has found a renewed interest in releasing music.

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    Saxophonist Charles McPherson performs with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra at the Rose Theater in New York on April 5 during “McCoy Tyner and Charles McPherson at 80,” a tribute to the two jazz luminaries.

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    At age 14, drummer Allison Miller performed at Blues Alley in Washington D.C. with guitarist Charlie Byrd.

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    Ingrid Jensen stands for a solo during a Feb. 15 performance of the Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra at St. Mark’s Anglican Church in Niagara-On-The-Lake, Ontario, during the second Oscar Peterson International Jazz Festival.

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    “There are plenty of guys who would vote for a woman president before hiring a woman in their band,” Terri Lyne Carrington said.

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    The Bowman Trio

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    Hawk Eyes serves as a chronicle of Sanah Kadoura’s recuperation from traumatic brain injury.

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    Camille Thurman’s latest release, Waiting For The Sunrise (Chesky), was issued in August.

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    French native Stéphane Spira is based in New York City.

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    JFA Executive Director Wendy Oxenhorn and actor Rosie Perez

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    Bassist Adi Meyerson’s leader debut is titled Where We Stand.

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    Walter Gwardyak is the music director and pianist for the New England Jazz Ensemble.

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    Bassist Corcoran Holt has worked with such icons as Benny Golson, Steve Turre and Jimmy Cobb.

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    French saxophonist Émile Parisien recently issued Sfumato Live In Marciac on the ACT imprint.

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    Jure Pukl (left), Melissa Aldana, Joe Sanders and Greg Hutchinson perform on Doubtless.

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    Scott Reeves Jazz Orchestra recently issued Without A Trace on Origin.

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    After taking part in a discussion on gender and jazz, pianist Monika Herzig’s SHEroes ensemble performed April 4 at The New School in New York.

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