Dec 13, 2022 12:33 PM
Great New Boxed Sets
With all the new releases coming out around the holidays, here are a few team DownBeat is digging into right now! Brian…
That’s What Happened captures Miles Davis on the comeback trail of his career in the early to mid-1980s.
Dec 13, 2022 12:33 PM
With all the new releases coming out around the holidays, here are a few team DownBeat is digging into right now! Brian…
Blue Note has unearthed a previously unissued 1967 live recording with Elvin Jones as a leader called Elvin Jones Revival: Live At Pookie’s Pub.
Dec 13, 2022 12:27 PM
Three From Blue Note Blue Note Records continues to release waves of great sound on vinyl. In its Tone Poet series, the…
Author Richard Koloda spent two decades researching this addition to the legend of free-jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler.
Dec 13, 2022 12:15 PM
When considering what to buy those who are impossible to buy for (guilty, as charged), loved ones can’t go wrong with…
Ryan Truesdell (left) and Jim McNeely give each other the Blindfold Test onstage at ISJAC 2022 in Austin, Texas.
Dec 6, 2022 11:59 AM
During this year’s International Society of Jazz Arrangers and Composers symposium in Austin, Texas, celebrated jazz…
Nils Winther says he has recorded more than 1,000 albums for his Denmark-based SteepleChase label.
Nov 29, 2022 11:08 AM
In August of 1972, Nils Winther was an enterprising young man with a taste for jazz and a talent for taping that he…
“You know, I am not as fast as I used to be,” says Foster. “But it’s more fresh ideas. I’m always coming up with new stuff when I practice.”
Nov 22, 2022 2:39 PM
To call Al Foster a student of the drums is an understatement. The 79-year-old master has studied the history of jazz…
“Roscoe Mitchell, Don Moye, Jason Moran, Amina Claudine Myers, Thomas Stanley, Nicole Mitchell — these people hugged me,” Moor Mother says.
Nov 8, 2022 12:58 PM
At the 42nd annual Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, Moor Mother gave one of her most soul rattling…
ChimyTina’s Dan “Chimy” Chmielinski and Martina DaSilva
Nov 8, 2022 12:47 PM
Making one’s way through the jazz landscape by trekking down the DIY path isn’t exactly a novel endeavor. Any…
“There’s really no point in printing up CDs anymore,” Munro says.
Nov 8, 2022 12:37 PM
After a long stretch of recording for the Chase Music Group, including a pair of potent fusion offerings (1994’s The…
“I think jazz needs more provocative personality, and it needs more sex,” Han says.
Nov 1, 2022 11:50 AM
Of all of the interesting things Connie Han said during a recent interview, this was perhaps the most unexpected: “I…
