The true jazz experience happens onstage in front of an audience—our concert and festival reviewers take you there.
How to play a chord that feels like Toni Morrison writing, “I didn’t fall in love with you, I rose in it”? How to play … Read More “Live Review: Pérez, Cohen, Potter Quintet in Washington, D.C.”
Nicole Mitchell’s Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds, which her Black Earth Ensemble performed at the Pritzker Pavilion on the first day of the 2018 Chicago … Read More “Live Review: 2018 Chicago Jazz Festival”
In Switzerland, a snowman effigy called a Böögg is burned and exploded at the stake as a way of marking winter’s end and predicting the fortitude … Read More “Live Review: 2018 Detroit Jazz Festival”
Apparently, it was a total coincidence that Red Bull Music scheduled its Chicago “round robin” improvisation during the Chicago Jazz Festival. Perhaps also by coincidence, … Read More “Live Review: Red Bull Music Presents Round Robin in Chicago”
Now in its 29th year of operation, geographically and artistically positioned between the SFJAZZ season and the Monterey Jazz Festival, San Jose Jazz Summer Fest … Read More “Live Review: 2018 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest”
You could go to many European cities when a jazz festival was in town and never know it. Big cities like Belgrade, Serbia and even … Read More “Live Review: 45th Umbria Jazz Festival”
In between bouts of torrential rain and sticky heat, hundreds of musicians played for tens of thousands of listeners over the course of three days … Read More “2018 Newport Jazz Festival: Special Recap”
Despite a record-breaking heatwave over the Canada Day holiday weekend, the 10-day music marathon that was the 39th Montreal International Jazz Festival (June 28-July 8) … Read More “Live Review: 39th Montreal International Jazz Festival”
Grant Green’s Evolution of Funk, which closed out a four-night stint at Jazz Standard in Manhattan on Sunday, July 1, is an unabashed tribute act. … Read More “Live Review: Grant Green’s Evolution of Funk in New York”
