Though the history of jazz in Ukraine dates back to the second decade of the 20th Century, jazz media in Ukraine
was slower to develop. While this article's primary focus is on today's jazz journalists, independent proselytizers
and advocates, it would be...
Saxophonist and composer Dave McMurray has much of the celebrated history of Detroit music in his memory and under his fingers. Now 70, and with four acclaimed releases on the storied Blue Note label, he is arguably at the pinnacle of a long and remarkably varied career.
Elliot Mercer discovered it the way most musicians discover anything important—by accident, late at night, trying to fix something small. The club was closed, chairs stacked, the bar lights dimmed to a tired amber. He stood alone on the bandstand with his...
Brazilian drummer Igor Willcox is fast becoming one of the most interesting young artists in jazz. A string of superb releases with his jazz fusion quartet, which currently includes saxophonist Wagner Barbosa, electric bassist Ricardinho Paraiso, and pianist Erik Escobar, culminated in the 2025 album Time Traveller.
Like New York's winters on the whole, the long nights of the city's Winter JazzFest demand hardiness. Moveable feasts that sprawl onto multiple stages in a neighborhood, the Jazzfest's celebrated marathons require...
The new single by Brazil's foremost contemporary composer, Luiz Millan, featuring the fabulous vocal quartet New York Voices plus two legendary musicians who were founding members of the Pat Metheny Group: fretless bass master Mark Egan (who also recorded with Gil Evans, Sting, David Sanborn, Michae"...
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