Keyboardist and composer Craig Taborn’s new conceptual electronic music work, 60 X Sixty, is now available worldwide to stream for free. The work consists of … Read More “Craig Taborn Unveils Experimental Composition 60 X Sixty“
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s managing and artistic director, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, turns 60 this year. This, per JALC, is the long-awaited catalyst for the New … Read More “Jazz at Lincoln Center Reopens with “Wynton at 60””
Greenwich Village’s much-beloved 55 Bar is among the many New York jazz venues whose continued existence is in danger from the effects of the COVID-19 … Read More “Musicians Organize 11-Day Benefit to Keep New York’s 55 Bar in Business”
A consortium of seven major jazz record labels will together issue Relief, a compilation album of previously unreleased recordings by a series of jazz stars, … Read More “Relief Compilation Has an All-Star Lineup”
Doors, a Swedish startup livestreaming platform, will broadcast a pair of concerts on Saturday, September 11, as a special tribute to legendary saxophonist Stan Getz. … Read More “Tribute to Stan Getz Streams from His Onetime Danish Home”
The version of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme that we all know—recorded in Rudy Van Gelder’s Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, studio on December 9, 1964 … Read More “Previously Unheard Live Recording of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme Out Oct. 8″
The Festival International de Jazz de Montreal (FIJM), celebrating its 41st edition in 2021, has announced the first part of its lineup for the September … Read More “Montreal Jazz Festival Announces First Part of 2021 Lineup”
The venerable Village Vanguard, which has been presenting world-class jazz from its Seventh Avenue South basement location in New York’s West Village since 1935—and which … Read More “Village Vanguard to Reopen September 14”
Strata-East Records, the legendary independent jazz label that released albums by Gil Scott-Heron, Pharoah Sanders, Clifford Jordan, Shirley Scott, Max Roach’s M’Boom, Jayne Cortez, the … Read More “Strata-East to Celebrate 50 Years at Birdland”
The Detroit Jazz Festival, which for many years has been a free outdoor event in downtown Detroit, has just announced that it is going back … Read More “Detroit Jazz Festival Reverts to Virtual Format”
