After celebrating 25 years last year, New York jazz spot Smoke begins its next quarter century run. I spoke to owner/founder ...
Playing a multi-night stand in Boston represents an opportunity and a challenge for a musician like Robert Glasper.
Encompassing decades of Caribbean music styles, jazz and classic tunes from the Great American Songbook, Jamaican American ...
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Jazz Off the Record
In the late 1960s, the recording industry lost interest in America’s greatest art form. But in a small, dark club on the ...
A new recording features pianist McCoy Tyner and saxophonist Joe Henderson in a concert taped in New York City in 1966. The music here is a prelude to later iconic records by each leader.
The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation (LAEF) celebrated its annual awards honoring jazz education and music advocacy ...
We need to get back to the roots of the music and grow to bring in new people otherwise who are we trying to share it with?” ...