Evan Haga worked as an editor and writer at JazzTimes from 2006 to 2018. He is currently the Jazz Curator at TIDAL, and his writing has appeared at RollingStone.com, NPR Music, Billboard and other outlets.
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Walter Becker – co-founder, co-songwriter, guitarist and bassist of the era-defining, jazz-savvy rock band Steely Dan – died yesterday. The news was announced on his … Read More “Steely Dan’s Walter Becker Dies at 67”
There is at least a slight news-of-the-weird element to Loneliness Road (RareNoise), the recent album from the trio of pianist Jamie Saft, bassist Steve Swallow … Read More “Iggy Pop: Croon & Destroy”
Canons are useful constructs when looking at the history of the arts, and organizations like Jazz at Lincoln Center are synonymous with the virtues and … Read More “Concert Review: John Scofield’s Quiet and Loud Jazz at JALC”
“I view the [jazz] tradition as being like the roots of a tree,” the bassist Christian McBride told JT writer Nate Chinen in 2013. “But you … Read More “Field Notes: Newport 2017, Day Three”
There’s a very true cliché that jazz musicians, producers, promoters and other industry folks like to deploy in case of emergency, when something that had … Read More “Field Notes: Newport 2017, Day Two”
There’s a story, an angle to the Newport Jazz Festival this year, other than the long-running narrative about it being an enduring institution of jazz … Read More “Field Notes: Newport 2017, Day One”
Despite its reputation for wallowing in nostalgia, jazz always tends to mirror its time. The manic optimism of America in the 1920s yielded hot jazz; … Read More “JT Notes: Celebrating Alice Coltrane”
In publishing, marketing makes us do funny things. For example, the edition of JT you’re holding now is the annual saxophone issue. A jazz rag … Read More “JT Notes: The Sax Dreams Are Made On”
I had a grand time defending Damien Chazelle’s 2014 film, Whiplash, as it made its ascent toward the multiplexes. Whether cynical or idealistic, jazz defenders … Read More “La La Means … What Exactly?”
I attended “Celebrate Ornette,” the June 2014 all-star tribute concert that makes this outstanding new box set an essential piece for Coleman devotees. I recall … Read More “Various Artists: Celebrate Ornette (Song X)”
Despite taking place in Havana, Cuba, one of the most inspiring but politically complex nations on the planet, this year’s International Jazz Day Global Concert, … Read More “The 2017 International Jazz Day Global Concert”
I received a few sharp emails in response to my January/February column, which opened with barbs directed at President Trump. That rhetoric has no business … Read More “JT Notes: Keith Jarrett, Political Humorist”
Will 2017 go down as a banner year in the history of Winter Jazzfest? The annual festival, which held its 13th edition Jan. 5 through … Read More “Winter Jazzfest 2017: Snow, Sprawl & Social Justice”
Each year, our March issue is one of change, transition and reflection. Mostly this has to do with the magazine’s centerpiece, our annual collection of … Read More “JT Notes: End of an Era”
Two-thousand-sixteen was a year filled with great promise and just recognition for deserving leaders. I’m discussing the year in jazz, of course; generally speaking, we … Read More “JT Notes: The Year in Review”
Influential scribe pulled from personal relationships with jazz greats, in plainspoken prose
ArtScience, the latest release from Robert Glasper’s Experiment band, begins with the keyboardist’s trademarked take on acoustic jazz, like Bud Powell and prime Herbie passed … Read More “Robert Glasper Experiment: ArtScience”
McCoy Tyner and Dr. John are honored
The city honors its own while hosting circuit headliners
Editor Evan Haga on the November 2016 issue
John Scofield’s latest project, a set of C&W standards, is full of surprises even if its concept might seem overdue for the guitarist, whose abiding … Read More “John Scofield: Country for Old Men”
Editor Evan Haga on the Swedish capital’s annual jazz festival
Marquis Hill, not yet 30 and based in both his hometown of Chicago and in New York, is one of the most promising jazz musicians … Read More “Marquis Hill: The Way We Play”
Editor Evan Haga on America’s most iconic jazz festival
Evan Haga ponders precocious jazz talent
The Charlie Parker fest closes with a smart, powerful all-star set
Pat Metheny has long been jazz’s most heroic guitarist, but he’s a guitar god with a definite and unabashed affinity for experimentation and the avant-garde. … Read More “Pat Metheny: The Unity Sessions”
Editor Evan Haga on NYC, Eddie Palmieri and more
If John Coltrane came to personify a profound spiritual yearning, what has his boyhood friend Benny Golson signified? A personal brand of stately elegance, in … Read More “Benny Golson: Horizon Ahead”
Pharoah, Shepp, Gary Burton, Wendy Oxenhorn honored
