Teodross Avery Lifts Off: A Powerful Tenor Saxophone Player Renews With a New Push
For some reason that is hard to comprehend, that I have never understood, there is a deep gulf between San Francisco and Los Angeles– it is a different universe....
The International Songwriting Competition (ISC) Announces 2017 Jazz Winners
Press release, April 20, 2018 The International Songwriting Competition (ISC), widely recognized as the most prestigious and respected songwriting competition in the world, is pleased to announce its 2017...
Off to the Races: An Interview With Drummer and Bandleader Rodney Ruckus
Ruckus talks about playing with Chick Corea, Sean Jones, Theo Croker, and growing up on the road.
Can Community Music Save Jazz? San Francisco Might Have the Answer
What do we mean by “save jazz”? Let’s get to the points. There is a crises in this music that appears in clearly distinct areas. First, the music may...
Brilliant Conversations: “After the Fall”, Keith Jarrett Trio (ECM, 2018)
The headline above for the latest release from the “Standards Trio”—Keith Jarrett (piano), Gary Peacock (double bass) and Jack DeJohnette (drums)—is worthy of a nod to the title...
The 2017 TD James Moody Jazz Festival
The sixth annual TD James Moody Jazz Festival took place from November 4 to 12, 2017 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC). The Festival included such luminaries...
On Stage at Kingsborough – Eddie Allen/3hree for Louis – A Tribute to Louis Armstrong
On Stage at Kingsborough, at Brooklyn’s Kingsborough Community College, is in the middle of their 2017-2018 season of events, including the show Eddie Allen/3hree for Louis – A Tribute...
A Look Back – The Charlie Parker and White Plains Jazz Festivals
For those who are looking forward to warmer weather and outdoor jazz festivals, here’s a look back at two of the best of 2017’s mid-sized festivals in New York....
The Clarinet Emerges from the Past in a Stunning Concert at SFJAZZ
Just the other day I had been walking down Haight Street in San Francisco when I bumped into one of our best local sax players. He had just invested...
The Jazzy Side of the 60th Grammy Award Nominations
© Andrea Canter And the nominees are….. lots of jazz and jazz artists! The 60th Grammy Awards nominations have been announced, and in addition to the formal jazz...
The 2017 Montclair Jazz Festival!
The Montclair Jazz Festival, in its eighth year, took place on August 12, with a line-up that included established jazz artists and aspiring student musicians. Montclair Jazz Festival...
The 2017 Newport Jazz Festival – Icons and Newcomers!
The 2017 Newport Jazz Festival, presented by Natixis Global Asset Management, took place from August 4 to 6, with daytime concerts at Fort Adams State Park and a Friday...
A Bountiful Fall of Magical Music: Dee Dee Bridgewater at SFJAZZ
It may very well be true that, in turbulent times, we need the arts more than ever. And we are not talking about the kind of “art” that floods...
Blue Note All-Stars: “Our Point Of View” (Blue Note Records, 2017)
If ever there was a jazz label more entitled to proclaim some of their stable “All-Stars,” Blue Note Records would surely top that list. Likewise, if there were a...
Hiromi/Edmar Castaneda, “Live in Montreal” (Telarc, 2017)
If you think about it, the harp is just a piano with its guts strewn about. Or, to be more historically accurate, the piano is a harp with little...
Music Beyond the 2017 Montreal Jazz Festival!
Every year, Le Festival International de Jazz de Montréal presents hundreds of concerts. However, Montréal’s vibrant music scene isn’t limited to the Festival itself. Before, during, and after the...
Jackie Ryan/Rickey Woodard Quintet at Sunset Jazz at Newport
Superb vocalist Jackie Ryan gave a splendid performance at Sunset Jazz Newport in Marriott’s Rose Gardens on August 9th. The weather was once again perfect. Ryan and saxophonist Rickey...
R.I.P. John Abercrombie (1944-2017)
[Press Release] “To my mind John was his generation’s Jim Hall. His playing was always oriented around interplay with others, harmonic richness and flexibility, and tended more towards understatement...
2017 Detroit Jazz Festival Features Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Kamasi Washington, Tribute to Michael Brecker — September 1-4
Labor Day Weekend in Detroit has a long tradition of community, hope, and of course the best jazz in the world, with an estimated quarter of a million...
CD Reviews: New Orleans Flotilla, Crooner Abuse, and Hands Across the Baltic/Seine
louis vuitton handbags michael kors Normally I keep this to a two-blurb minimum. But this week it’s a trifecta. I’m out of the studio for much of the month...