The second annual Jazz Congress will take place on Jan. 7-8, 2019, at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, in New York City, it was announced today. The venue is located at Broadway and W. 60th Street in Manhattan. Jazz Congress brings together members of the global jazz community to network,…Read More
The Institute of Jazz Studies (IJS) at Rutgers University-Newark, in New Jersey, has acquired a collection of nearly 1,000 artifacts that belonged to the late William “Count” Basie. The Count Basie Collection, according to an IJS press release, includes the musician’s pianos, Hammond organ, photos, correspondence, concert programs, business records, housewares, and press clippings. “Scholars,…Read More
Supporting her 2017 album release Turn Up the Quiet, pianist/singer Diana Krall will launch a new 21-date U.S. tour Oct. 3 in Waterbury, Conn. According to the tour announcement from her label, Verve Records, the fourth North American leg of Krall’s ongoing world tour will continue through Nov. 4, when it lands in Costa Mesa,…Read More
Lorraine Gordon, longtime owner of the Village Vanguard jazz club in New York and widow of its founder Max Gordon, died on the morning of Saturday, June 9, at Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan. She was 95 years old. Her death was confirmed by Jed Eisenman, the general manager of the Village Vanguard. Eisenman said that…Read More
On March 6, 1963, the day before John Coltrane recorded his classic album of ballads with singer Johnny Hartman, the saxophonist entered Rudy Van Gelder’s recording studio in New Jersey to lay down tracks of a very different sort. He and the rest of his quartet—pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison, and drummer Elvin Jones—cut…Read More
On Thursday, June 26, at Damrosch Park in the heart of New York’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, a new all-female big band will perform its first public concert. Sisterhood of Swing, a 14-piece group led by Canadian trumpeter/vocalist Bria Skonberg and also featuring violinist Regina Carter and clarinetist Anat Cohen, will provide the…Read More
New York City isn’t often thought of as a center for brass bands, but that may change on Sunday, June 10, when the first annual New York Brass Festival gets underway at the McKittrick Hotel in Chelsea. The 10-hour event will feature 10 bands on two stages and cover a wide range of music styles,…Read More
The Sun Ra Music Archive, online home of much of the prolific keyboardist/composer/bandleader/theorist’s album catalog, has just premiered the first three episodes of a new radio series, Sun Ra Radio. The episodes, each approximately three hours long, present an overview of the alleged Saturn native’s career with a combination of studio and live recordings by…Read More
Some important changes have taken place recently on the JazzTimes staff. Evan Haga, the longtime editor of JazzTimes, is resigning from his position effective June 5. Evan has worked for JT for over 12 years, initially as an associate editor, then as the managing editor and eventually taking the reins of the magazine’s content as editor for the…Read More
Octave Music continues to add to the posthumous discography of pianist Erroll Garner. Nightconcert, the label’s third archival Garner release in three years, will be available July 13 on CD and deluxe double vinyl, as part of Octave’s new partnership with Mack Avenue Records. Nightconcert captures a midnight show at Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw on November…Read More
