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Everybody does the voice. Not just for his characteristic sayings, but for the mundanities. “He’d say, ‘Thank you,’” recalls trombonist Robin Eubanks, putting “Thank …
Nobody embodied the jazz tradition quite like Mary Lou Williams. She was born in 1910 and helped define stride piano, big-band, and boogie-woogie …
Sean Jones is a man in motion. At 6 p.m. on a Wednesday evening in early summer, the trumpeter is sitting in a dressing …
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Leon Parker has been keeping busy since he returned to the United States a few years ago, having previously spent about two decades abroad in …
Bebop pioneer Charlie “Bird” Parker is often credited for bringing jazz into the modern era. And for the past 27 years the festival named …
JazzTimes is honored to present the premiere of “Blackout” by Bria Skonberg. The song will appear on the Canadian trumpeter, vocalist, and composer’s latest …
Ginger Baker, a British drummer who, though steeped in jazz technique, became one of the most influential percussionists in rock music, died October 6 at …
Reviews
Live Review: 2019 Monterey Jazz Festival
Much like Ernest Hemingway’s famous description of how bankruptcy happens (“Gradually and then suddenly,” he wrote in The Sun Also Rises), the pervasive presence …
