In the 1980s and 1990s, jazz experienced a powerful revival. After decades of fusion, funk, and experimentation, a new ...
Back in the 1980s, Jack Frisch, then in his early twenties, got bitten pretty hard by the jazz bug, taking the ferry from his home in Staten Island, New York, over to Manhattan with some friends and ...
A new exhibit is on display at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture in uptown Charlotte, profiling iconic jazz artists who played in a period that included the Jim Crow era. ...
New Orleans’ streets echo with the sounds of brass bands, and iconic venues like Preservation Hall offer an intimate experience with traditional jazz. Also, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival ...
No one did it quite like Marshall Allen. This excentric saxophonist and student of the legendary James Moody is often associated with the famed jazz composer Sun Ra. He’s known for his eclectic free ...
More faux-intellectual codswallop has been written about Cecil Taylor than about any other jazz musician, dead or alive. He has been, and continues to be, misrepresented as an arcane Einsteinian ...
He called himself a “professional listener,” and he tended to develop lifelong relationships with the artists he worked with. By Giovanni Russonello Jean-Philippe Allard, a French record executive and ...