As emcee Mark Ruffin noted at the commencement of an epic tribute to saxophonist Sonny Rollins at the Cathedral of Saint John ...

It’s always important to give space, take space and then create together,” Nils Petter Molvær says. “That’s the essence of a ...

After two years of flux following the departure of artistic director Tim Jackson, the 2026 Monterey Jazz Festival roared back ...

American tenori di forza are a thing. Tenor saxophonists, that is. Sal Nistico, Sam Butera, Don Menza, Frank Tiberi, Jerry ...

Like much of the United States, New York officially marked the nation’s semiquincentennial in July with grandiose displays of one-dimensional patriotism.But over at the Jazz Gallery, a modest space ...

Good Trouble finds Matt Wilson as boisterous and hard-swinging as ever. Resourceful, too: This critic had never heard a contrafact of “Feed The Fire,” Geri Allen’s signature tune, before Wilson’s ...

If ever you’ve imagined what Sonny Rollins must have sounded like, playing in solitude (between trains) on the Williamsburg Bridge, ArchMusic might be the soundtrack to those fantasies — if you adjust ...

No mere repertory exercise, this — perhaps even less so than drummer Terri Lyne Carrington’s inspired 2013 update of Ellington/Roach/Mingus’ Money Jungle. Always in touch with her social conscience, ...

For his first live album since 1989, Jim Snidero, a seasoned saxophonist with more than 20 records to his name, brings together the incomparable Orrin Evans on piano, Peter Washington on bass and Joe ...

There are few things on planet Earth more beautiful than the voice of Lizz Wright. Her alto demands your ears. Her tone and phrasing melt your soul. So, what could be more perfect than an assembly of ...

When a band from Austin, Texas, drops music into the offices of DownBeat, there are expectations. The band Atlas Maior, hailing from that acclaimed music city, blows those expectations away. No Texas ...

The efforts of such groups as the George Shearing quintet and the Bird-with-strings combo to wean the public to bop by offering it in a commercialized form is producing the opposite effect, according ...