Jazz’s best journalists ask questions and jazz’s best artists answer them.
For the acclaimed Netflix film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Branford Marsalis played an outsized role, albeit offscreen, in bringing August Wilson’s award-winning play to a … Read More “Branford Marsalis Brings Authenticity to Adaptation of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom“
The cover of Eddie Henderson’s most recent album, 2020’s Shuffle and Deal (Smoke Sessions), finds the trumpet titan sitting on the hood of his Ferrari. … Read More “Eddie Henderson: Bright Moments”
Wallace Roney’s departure on the last day of March 2020 was a gut-punch in a year filled with far too many shocks. In the opening … Read More “Wallace Roney: The Man with the Horn”
“I don’t listen to my own music,” Sonny Rollins said in October from his Woodstock home, chewing a Ricola cough drop as he got ready … Read More “Sonny Rollins: Bright Moments”
Since his rise as a teenage recording artist in South Africa, guitarist and singer/songwriter Jonathan Butler has gained a high international profile with music that … Read More “Jonathan Butler: “We Can No Longer Be Silent””
Over the years, we learned that sometimes it was best to have a musician interview another musician, because there would be an instant ease and … Read More “Looking Back at Looking Back: Our Best Artist-to-Artist Interviews”
This year marks the 40th year of Mark Ruffin’s career as a jazz broadcaster and writer. Since 2007, Ruffin has been the program director of … Read More “Mark Ruffin: The Storied Intersection of Jazz, Baseball, and Race”
In a video pulled together by Kendrick Scott and posted on social media during the pandemic, 39 top-notch jazz drummers play along, one by one, … Read More “Jeff Hamilton, Drummer’s Drummer”
“The roughest thing is my mom,” Maria Schneider says over the phone on a recent summer morning, answering the first question of almost every conversation … Read More “Maria Schneider: A Tale of Two Worlds”
Alexis Cole represents a new generation of jazz artists and entrepreneurs forced by a worldwide pandemic to help themselves and their community. The new world … Read More “Alexis Cole: Teaching & Learning”
