Willard Jenkins
Willard’s Contributions
11/17/11 Education
Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong Summer Camp
Community and family define this NOLA program
07/12/11 Independent Ear
Who Shot Miles & Other Stories from the Blue Coronet
Interview by Willard Jenkins with Dickie Habersham-Bey, former owner of the Brooklyn jazz club
05/26/11 Independent Ear
Fab 5 Freddy: The Max Roach Influence
Second part of Willard Jenkins’ interview with rap and hip hop innovator who talks about his personal and professional relationship with Max Roach
05/19/11 Independent Ear
Fab 5 Freddy: A Jazz Upbringing at the Roots of Hip Hop
Part 1 of Willard Jenkins' interview with rap and hip hop innovator about growing up around jazz in Brooklyn
03/16/11 Independent Ear
Sista's Place: A Jazz & Cultural Beachhead in Brooklyn (Part Two)
In part two of 2-part series, Willard Jenkins interviews people behind the scenes at the cooperative music and cultural center in Brooklyn
03/16/11 Independent Ear
Sista's Place: A Jazz & Cultural Beachhead in Brooklyn (Part One)
In first of a two-part series, Willard Jenkins interviews people behind the scenes at the cooperative music and cultural center in Brooklyn
04/23/10 Independent Ear
Have You Heard Linda Oh?
In the newest edition of his Independent Ear column, Willard Jenkins interviews bassist Linda Oh about her development as a jazz musician
11/18/09 Education
Getting a Leg Up: HIgh School Magnet Programs
A profile of four prime magnet programs groom the next generation of jazz greats
May 2008 At Home
Irvin Mayfield
Irvin Mayfield is an animated, supremely self-confident 30-year-old with an easy laugh, a growing command of the trumpet and a soul-deep commitment to all things New Orleans. He lives in New Orleans’ uptown sector, in a comfortable yellow frame house with...
09/19/07 Concerts
DC Jazz Festival
Washington, D.C.’s third annual Duke Ellington Jazz Festival celebrated the rich legacy of Dizzy Gillespie, befitting festival producer Charlie Fishman’s late period managerial relationship with Diz. One evening in particular, aptly billed “In the Footsteps...
May 2007 News
Living History: Jazz Legends Celebrate at D.C.’s Kennedy Center
What we’re trying to do as a whole with the Kennedy Center jazz program is to fight the idea that jazz is dead,” Dr. Billy Taylor informed a pre-concert crowd at the Living Jazz Legends gala, held March 5 at Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center. “People keep...
04/02/07 Concerts
Cape Town International Jazz Festival
Strolling the teeming corridors of the spiffy Convention Center, home to the Cape Town International Jazz Festival’s 8th running, one is heartened by South Africa’s democracy-era mosaic of humanity—and the fact there are arguably more black enthusiasts here...
01/22/07 Concerts
Panama Jazz Festival 2007
Danilo Perez is on a mission, backed emphatically by Panama’s Minister of Tourism, master sonero Ruben Blades, during an intimate press breakfast. According to Perez, the Panama Jazz Festival is “a gathering that goes beyond music and speaks to the heart...
05/23/06 Concerts
Art of Jazz Celebration 2006
The creative arts scene of Toronto just added a new color to its vibrant pallet with the May inauguration of the Art of Jazz Celebration. Solidly based in jazz education, Art of Jazz was founded by Toronto’s jazz emissaries, saxophonist Jane Bunnett and...
November 2003 Overdue Ovation
Roger Humphries: Steel City Pulse
While Pittsburgh has scrubbed up and morphed into a high-tech center, it's still a town inexorably dressed in the sturdy steel gown of its industrial past. The blue-collar roots of Steel City means that it has always been a fertile town for jazz talent-from...
E-mail
Share
RSS
Report