Ron Carter Appointed Artist-in-Residence for the 2016 Detroit Jazz Festival
The Detroit Jazz Festival, the world’s largest free jazz festival, announced that legendary bassist, cellist, composer and Detroit native Ron Carter will be its 2016 Artist-in-Residence. An alum of...
The Divine and the Sublime: Kamasi Washington, Fred Hersch in San Francisco
There is an old axiom in music: Jazz is “the sound of surprise.” That surprise certainly rang true for this listener at two recent shows in San Francisco. The...
And the Grammy Goes to… Jazz Artists
The 58th Grammy Awards are history, and for nominees from the world of jazz, in jazz and other categories, it was a pretty good year. Perhaps the biggest...
A Tale of Two Festivals: Twin Cities, Iowa City Hit All the Right Notes in 2015
It was the best of times for devotees of jazz. It was a time for bebop and a time for inventive improvisation, a chance to hear swing and even...
Jazz Festival Survivors: We Chose Detroit
The banners draping the Carhartt Amphitheater and Hart Plaza gateways read “Choose #8221; Every Labor Day weekend for the past eight years, I have done just that. I’ve chosen...
“Satchmo at the Waldorf”: An Outrageous and Brilliant One-Man Tour de Force
Jazz music and its stories can now appear in any venue. You might find a concert in a museum, park, subway station, or at your local junior high school....
2015 Jazz Fest Round-Up: From Montreal to Wall Street
There are many jazz festivals each year, and some of the best take place in the US Northeast and Canada. Here are some highlights from 2015. The 2015 Festival...
2016 Grammy Nominations: The Jazz Side
Although Jazz has been rarely high profile among Grammy nominations, awards or the televised awards program (save Esperanza Spalding’s surprise win as Best New Artist in 2011), there are...