Jul 17, 2020 8:59 AM
Béla Fleck, Abigail Washburn Improvise At Home
Work and family gracefully coexist in the household of Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn—married banjo players who…
Abigail Washburn and Béla Fleck have been livestreaming performances from their home in Nashville during the pandemic.
Jul 17, 2020 8:59 AM
Work and family gracefully coexist in the household of Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn—married banjo players who…
Dorthaan Kirk, who retired from WBGO in 2018, is among the 2020 NEA Jazz Masters.
Jul 16, 2020 10:03 AM
A ceremony to honor the 2020 NEA Jazz Masters is set to take place online at 8 p.m. Aug. 20. The event will be MC’d by…
Lisa Mezzacappa draws inspiration from author Italo Calvino for her new album, Cosmicomics.
Jul 16, 2020 6:40 AM
Lisa Mezzacappa doesn’t have to go looking for inspiration. It seems that inspiration finds her, thanks to an artistic…
Saxophonist Russ Nolan’s new album is titled Sin Fronteras.
Jul 15, 2020 8:57 AM
The origin story of saxophonist Russ Nolan’s new album, the Pan-American-oriented Sin Fronteras, dates to 2007, five…
Antibalas focuses on the songwriting of its vocalist, Duke Amayo, for Fu Chronicles, an album that marks the ensemble’s 20th anniversary.
Jul 14, 2020 9:00 AM
Despite marking two decades as a band, Antibalas recently released its first album that digs deep into Nigerian-American…
Reedist Scott Robinson is set to stream a set via the Smalls website Friday alongside pianist Helen Sung, bassist Martin Wind and drummer Peter Van Nostrand.
Jul 13, 2020 9:00 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a…
Terence Blanchard—who won a Grammy in the category Best Instrumental Composition for “Blut Und Boden (Blood And Soil),” a work featured in Spike Lee’s 2018 movie BlacKkKlansman—composed the score for the filmmaker’s latest effort, Da 5 Bloods.
Jul 10, 2020 8:23 AM
In the pantheon of collaborative triumphs, musical partnerships like Billie Holiday and Lester Young or Miles Davis and…
The time Steve Cardenas has spent performing alongside Charlie Haden, Paul Motian, Norah Jones and Madeleine Peyroux has come to bear on his approach to guitar.
Jul 9, 2020 8:53 AM
This summer, Steve Cardenas should be gigging, touring in others’ ensembles and putting energy into promoting his own…
Oneness Of Juju in the studio during the 1970s. A batch of the band’s recordings is being reissued as African Rhythms 1970-1982.
Jul 8, 2020 9:00 AM
James “Plunky” Branch met his future business partner and friend Jimmy Gray almost by chance. In the early ’70s,…
Terri Lyne Carrington, who topped three categories in the 2020 DownBeat Critics Poll, is the first female instrumentalist to win the Jazz Artist of the Year category.
Jul 6, 2020 4:43 PM
Trailblazing drummer and bandleader Terri Lyne Carrington has made history numerous times in her career, and the results…
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