Catch up on the careers of the music’s greatest and latest artists.
The late Bernie McGann, a hugely influential figure in the history of Australian jazz, studied and played in New York, collaborated with Freddie Hubbard, Sonny … Read More “International Jazz Day in Australia: Continental Connections”
When it comes to narrative arcs, few are more compelling than the story of two people on separate life paths who eventually connect and create … Read More “Joey DeFrancesco and Pharoah Sanders: Meeting of the Spirits”
Nearly 120 years after his heyday in New Orleans, Charles “Buddy” Bolden, the cornet player and bandleader widely credited with inventing jazz at the dawn … Read More “Wynton Marsalis Imagines Buddy Bolden”
On one of her most recent visits to Philadelphia, Marilyn Crispell visited the house where she’d grown up for the first time since she’d moved … Read More “Overdue Ovation: Marilyn Crispell”
“When I started my career,” Dee Dee Bridgewater says, “thinking about wellness was not a thing.” Don’t get the award-winning vocalist wrong; she has long … Read More “Is Jazz Good for Your Health?”
Charles “Buddy” Bolden (1877-1931) grew up in New Orleans at the end of the 19th century to forge a new kind of music. Fusing blues, … Read More “Bolden: The Story Behind the Movie”
Like many teens who came of age in the 1990s, Adam Hopkins fell under the spell of indie rock bands like Pavement, the Dismemberment Plan, … Read More “Adam Hopkins’ Passage to Indie”
Sometime in 1969, an ad ran in the Chicago Defender, the city’s long-running African-American weekly: “Musician Sells Out!” It was typical of Lester Bowie’s sly sense … Read More “The Art Ensemble of Chicago’s Way Forward”
Their unsullied positivity and demonstrable zeal are inherent in the name of their band, Becoming Quintet. “We’re all young, we’re all trying to become something. … Read More “Becoming Quintet: Five One-Track Minds”
