All About Jazz

Roxy Coss: Standing Out

I think jazz is so important. The whole idea of it is the best of what our culture could represent. It’s the best of democracy, and America, and diversity, everybody having a voice....
David Torn: Making Records, Film Composition, and...

Experimental guitarist, looper, songwriter, improviser, session guitarist, film composer, record producer, mixer...David Torn is all of those things. He is constantly on the move, looking...
Courtney Pine: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Courtney Pine didn't pick up his beloved tenor saxophone for more than a decade, until an album exploring the black British experience demanded it. The multi-instrumentalist eschewed the horn on...
Rufus Reid: Composer, Educator, Bassist, Gait...

Rufus Reid doesn't play standards, as much as he is the standard, a well of knowledge and wisdom that this bassist was fortunate to sit down with one afternoon....
Denys Baptiste: Making the Late Trane Accessible

Even the most avowed John Coltrane disciples among us would admit to grappling with some of the albums he released in the couple of years before his death—the likes of Ascension, Sun Ship and Om...

Reviews

Daily album reviews—from independent to major label releases.

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Yequm

William Evans/Donat...
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Trio Heinz Herbert
The Willisau Concert

Ian Brighton &...
Together Apart

Articles

Interviews, columns, concert reviews, and more.

David Sanborn: Stick Out Your Tongue

Jamie Saft: Jazz in the Key of Iggy

The Dazzling Alexis Cole

Enrico Rava and Tomasz Stanko: Elective Affinities

October 2017: Grover Washington Jr, Bud Powell and Ferit Odman

Wouter Turkenburg: Jazz Education in the New Millennium

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News

Timely announcements from the industry.

Recording Guitarist Carlos Saunier releases "Inminente"

Recording Bassist/Composer Or Bareket Connects With His Roots On His Debut Recording – "OB1"

For Sale Jazz Vinyl Lover? Sign Up For "Vinyl Me, Please" Classics Club

Recording Doug Beavers' Art Of The Arrangement Submitted For Grammy Nomination Consideration

ArtistShare Is Proud To Submit Scott Colley's "Seven" For Nomination Consideration In The 60th Grammy Awards

Recording ArtistShare Is Proud To Submit Scott Colley's "Seven" For Nomination Consideration In The 60th Grammy...

Music Industry Low Society's "Sanctified" - 2018 Grammy Awards, For Your Consideration

The Sonny Rollins Bridge Project seeks to rename NYC’s Williamsburg Bridge to commemorate Rollins’ musical sabbatical there from 1959-1961

Advocacy The Sonny Rollins Bridge Project seeks to rename NYC’s Williamsburg Bridge to commemorate...

Performance / Tour Richard Elliot Live In Concert In Norfolk on November 4th!

Award / Grant 3-Time Emmy-nominated Composer Steve Sandberg’s ArtistShare Debut Submitted For Grammy Consideration

Book / Magazine Saxophonist Mark Turner Profiled In International Arts Magazine

BRIC Announces Third Annual BRIC Jazzfest, A World-Class Jazz Festival In The Heart Of The Brooklyn Cultural District, October 14-21, 2017

Event BRIC Announces Third Annual BRIC Jazzfest, A World-Class Jazz Festival In The Heart Of The Brooklyn Cultural District,...

Music Industry Low Society's "Sanctified" - 2018 Grammy Awards, For Your Consideration

Jim Hall And Red Mitchell - "Live At Sweet Basil 1978" Released On ArtistShare And Submitted For Grammy Nomination Consideration

Recording Jim Hall And Red Mitchell - "Live At Sweet Basil 1978" Released On ArtistShare And Submitted For Grammy Nomination...

Recording Nashville Jazz Crusader Rahsaan Barber's 3rd CD As A Leader, "The Music In The Night," Due Nov. 3

Book / Magazine Recent Reading: A Book About Vibes

For Sale Jazz Vinyl Lover? Sign Up For "Vinyl Me, Please" Classics Club

Website Jazz Near You Spotlight Service Expands to Include Venues & Festivals

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Odean Pope was born in Ninety-Six, South Carolina to musical parents who rooted him in the sounds of the Southern Baptist Church. After moving to Philadelphia at the age of ten, his lifelong study of... read more

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Story of the Day

I met Dave Brubeck at The Blackhawk in San Francisco in 1952 or '53. I was a sailor on leave when I discovered singer, pianist, composer, Matt Dennis appearing nightly at the Parrot’s Cage in Beverly Hills
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I met Dave Brubeck at The Blackhawk in San Francisco in 1952 or '53. I was a sailor on leave when I discovered singer, pianist, composer, Matt Dennis appearing nightly at the Parrot’s Cage in Beverly Hills. I went to hear him every night for several days. My last night, knowing I was going to San Francisco, Matt asked me to deliver a message to a friend of his at the Blackhawk. At that time I had never heard of Dave Brubeck. Within a year I was one of his biggest fans. The message was that Matt would have his arrangements in a few days. For years now I have wondered why he did that. Did he really want me to deliver a message or was it just his idea of something that would impress me? I will never know the answer.
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