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Ebban Dorsey

Denver Jazz Fest 2026

by Geoff Anderson
April 22, 2026

Denver Jazz Fest 2026 Denver and Boulder, CO April 7-12, 2026  It's easy to get used to the lifestyle: a concert every night, and three on Saturday: eight concerts in six days. Shouldn't life be like this all the time? Well, it was for almost a week in early April around Denver ...

Lafayette Gilchrist & New Volcanoes: Move With Love

by Ian Patterson
January 20, 2026

There is no escaping one's formative years when music--and much else--leaves an indelible mark, like a tattoo on the soul. For Lafayette Gilchrist, the jazz, hip-hop, funk and soul he imbibed growing up in Washington D.C. has been at the heart of New Volcanoes since its launch in 1993. In the intervening years, Baltimore-based Lafayette has ...

1978: Revenge of the Dragon

By José James

Label: Rainbow Blonde Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Tokyo Daydream (feat. Taali); Rock With You (feat. Takuya Kuroda); Rise Of The Tiger; They Sleep, We Grind (for Badu); I Thought It Was You (feat. Ebban Dorsey); Miss You; Inside And Out (feat. Ben Wendel); Last Call At The Mudd Club.

Remembering Saxophonist, teacher, and composer Carl Grubbs

by Matt Hooke
January 25, 2024

Saxophonist Carl Grubbs built a community around him everywhere he played, whether in 1970s Philadelphia where people gathered outside of his house to listen to his band practice, or in Baltimore where he mentored countless generations of musicians since the 1990s. Even as his health worsened over the past year, Grubbs continued to see ...

Introducing Vocalist Tyreek McDole

by Sanford Josephson
December 2, 2023

In 2018, Tyreek McDole, a student at the Osceola County School for the Arts in Kissimmee, FL, was playing classical percussion for a performance of the 1987 Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine musical, Into the Woods. “During rehearsal," he recalled, “one of the actors got sick. I had studied all the music, so I sang the part for ...

Camilla Battaglia, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Ben Wendel, Brad Allen Williams & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
April 18, 2023

Los Angeles and New York are the two poles of this playlist documenting the vibrancy of these two scenes, and their cross-pollination, including through a sample from the iconic Wattstax Benefit Concert, a dive into new releases by Colorfield Records, a jazz look at the Erykah Badu's and Kendrick Lamar's songbook, and the reimagining of Pharoah ...

José James: Why The Female Of The Species Is Groovier Than The Male

by Peter Jones
April 4, 2023

Jazz singer José James considers Erykah Badu to be the Joni Mitchell of his generation, a woman who has constructed a world of her own in order to tell her own alternative story. To prove the point, earlier this year he released On & On (Rainbow Blonde), a whole album of Badu songs, which he has ...

We’re Still Here

By NYO Jazz

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: A Taste of Honey; Pleasingly Plump; Oyelo; Mr. Jones and Co; Bedouin; We’re Still Here / He’s Alright; Fête dans la tête; Mr. Gentle and Mr. Cool; RPM’s; Run with Jones; Cute; I Be Serious ‘Bout Dem Blues; The Art of War; Transitions.