Jazz's most cooperative band is reinventing timeless songs
Singer, songwriter, actor, jazzer
An Overdue Ovation for a West Coast legend, by Don Heckman
Don Heckman profiles noted bassist and bandleader
Marcus Miller appraises fellow bassists in a listening session hosted by Don Heckman
Don Heckman catches up with trumpeter, vocalist and bon vivant
Return to Forever drummer releases Anomaly, his first solo album of original music in over a decade.
Despite a shift in priorities, drummer Ed Shaughnessy keeps his chops sharp
“I guess my karma was right.”
A transgendered bassist finds that talent trumps prejudice in the jazz world
Neither Return to Forever nor Mahavishnu, but something else all together
The future of sax proves secure
At 90, the last of the Jones brothers has no plans to retire.
“Bipolar” was the word that came to mind during the Monk Institute’s International Jazz Saxophone Competition in Los Angeles the weekend of Oct. 25-26. Not in the clinical sense, but in the frequent mood swings—and swinging moods—that took place over the...
Last February, on an unseasonably warm winter night in Los Angeles, something special took place in a large building at the fringe area between Hollywood and Los Feliz. On the second floor, in a studio big enough to house a 60-piece orchestra, four musicians...
Bennie Maupin says he’s only learned a few phrases in Polish. But he’s discovered firsthand that the language of jazz can transcend all boundaries. And his new recording, Early Reflections (Cryptogramophone), recorded in Warsaw with a band of Polish musicians...
Native Pennsylvanian Don Heckman has been active in the jazz world since the ’60s, playing alto sax in Manhattan’s avant-garde scene, studying music theory and musicology, and writing columns for The Village Voice and The New York Times as well as liner notes for musicians Andrew Hill, Wayne Shorter and Yusef Lateef. Currently, he is the jazz critic at The Los Angeles Times.
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