Jazz Articles about Chaka Khan

About Chaka Khan

In Pictures

Chaka Khan And Steel Pulse At Stern Grove 2024

by Walter Atkins
September 8, 2024

The effervescent vocalist Chaka Khan closed out the 2024 iteration of the well-established Stern Grove Festival Series in grand form at San Francisco's bucolic Stern Grove. This ten-time Grammy winner and 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee showed no signs of slowing down during her soulfully incendiary set. British-based reggae band Steel Pulse, a 1986 Grammy recipient, opened for the former Rufus lead singer with a torridly funky session. Ms. Khan, celebrating her 50-year career in ...

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Album Review

Joe Henderson: Porgy & Bess

Read "Porgy & Bess" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
November 1, 1997

In the early 90's, Joe Henderson “reappeared" as a major star on the jazz scene with a Grammy winning tribute album to Billy Strayhorn. Since then, his new label, Verve, has released a steady stream of well received theme albums by Henderson, and the latest addition to that series is Henderson's attempt at the Gershwins' Porgy & Bess. After the fairly traditional Strayhorn tribute, Henderson enlisted the services of guitarist John Scofield for his tribute to Miles Davis. After a ...