The legacy of the late trumpeter and composer Tomasz Stańko will be celebrated at an all-star memorial concert on Sept. 18 at Roulette in New … Read More “Tomasz Stańko to Be Celebrated in NYC” The post Tomasz Stańko to Be Celebrated in NYC appeared first on JazzTimes.
Any recording that contains a track titled “Rewind Fee” has a substantial bit of throwback in its spirit, and that’s the case with Spider Season, the … Read More “Nick Dunston: Spider Season (Out of Your Head)” The post Nick Dunston: Spider Season (Out of Your Head) appeared first on JazzTimes.
Put a “the” in front of a name and it acquires historical heft. The Thelonious Monk who entered New York City’s WOR Studios as Halloween … Read More “Thelonious Monk’s First Sessions” The post Thelonious Monk’s First Sessions appeared first on JazzTimes.
You want to get the word about Bird? Sheila Jordan, doyenne of jazz singers and 93 years young, continues to share the gospel of bebop, … Read More “Sheila Jordan: Live at Mezzrow (SmallsLIVE/Cellar)” The post Sheila Jordan: Live at Mezzrow (SmallsLIVE/Cellar) appeared first on JazzTimes.
‘Promised Land’ by guitarist and ace producer Paul Brown is his ninth solo project and the first (not counting his 2021 collaboration with Larry Carlton) since 2020 and ‘Ones Upon A Time’. It is a tight ten-track collection of original compositions embellished as usual with contributions from his inner circle of backing musicians plus input
Prolific bass player Billy Mohler enjoys the best of two disparate worlds. In one, the L.A.-based multi-instrumentalist is a Grammy-nominated sessioneer who’s played with Lady … Read More “Billy Mohler: Anatomy (Contagious)” The post Billy Mohler: Anatomy (Contagious) appeared first on JazzTimes.
Supergroup Jazz Funk Soul, aka Jeff Lorber, Everette Harp and Paul Jackson Jr., is back with its latest offering ‘Forecast’ that will be released tomorrow, August 5, on the Shanachie Entertainment label. This uplifting ten-track collection opens with the album’s first single. ‘Hustle’, an original Jeff Lorber composition that not only finds him blowing the
Perhaps best known for his use of synthesized guitar to conjure up a whole range of instrumental and orchestral sounds, Steve Oliver is all set to release an album of out and out guitar solos. It is a response to his many fans who over the years have asked him for such an offering and
Last summer, for the first time since he founded it in 1954, George Wein wasn’t at the Newport Jazz Festival. Traveling from his Manhattan home … Read More “Scenes from the 2022 Newport Jazz Festival” The post Scenes from the 2022 Newport Jazz Festival appeared first on JazzTimes.
Nabil Ayers didn’t need to write a memoir about what rarely existed between him and his biological father, composer/vibraphonist Roy Ayers, to connect with making … Read More “Nabil Ayers: My Life in the Sunshine: Searching for My Father and Discovering My Family (Viking)” The post Nabil Ayers: My Life in the Sunshine: Searching for