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By Ted Panken Ambrose Akinmusire imparts to younger musicians the knowledge and wisdom he’s gleaned……...
The editors of JAZZIZ have the good fortune of being able to listen to new…
The Week in Jazz is your roundup of new and noteworthy stories from the jazz…
The winners of the 63rd GRAMMY Awards were announced on March 14 during a ceremony…
Remember record stores? Remember the thrill of turning your friends on to new music by…
Originally published on August 26, 2020. Trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire rebukes the notion that musical abstraction is inherently……...
In Michael Jarrett’s book Pressed for All Time, excerpted in this article, pioneering producer and……...
Trumpeter/composer Ambrose Akinmusire, one of the leading figures in jazz today, is known to use…
Saxophonist Kamasi Washington was chosen to score the hit Netflix documentary Becoming, chronicling the life…
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A funk master’s first studio album in years; a musical “dissection” of black life in…
Looking for some Monday motivation? We’ve got you covered! From a musical dissection of the…
The Week in Jazz is your roundup of new and noteworthy stories from the jazz…
Identity and jazz, for me, go hand in hand. Much of my own discovery of this music was shaped by racial and familial-like ties to its artists, many of whom became the mothers and fathers I never had. But the connection goes far deeper than I had imagined.
Identity and jazz, for me, go hand in hand. Much of my own discovery of this music was shaped by racial and familial-like ties to its artists, many of whom became the mothers and fathers I never had. But the connection goes far deeper than I had imagined.
Over the last year, a lot of memorable albums have been released. As we always……...
Eighty years ago, a German immigrant and passionate jazz fan named Alfred Lion produced his…
Moldejazz, verging on its milestone 60th anniversary in 2020, is the oldest and widely considered…
Like Netflix, Qwest TV offers plenty of binge-worthy material, including live concert recordings from festivals as prestigious as the Montreux Jazz Festival and Jazz a Vienne, masterclasses by today’s leading musicians and rare historical footage.