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Endea Owens

Freedom! Juneteenth National Independence Day

by Katchie Cartwright
June 28, 2026

Caminhos do Jazz celebrates the 160th anniversary of Juneteenth National Independence Day, Emancipation Day here in Texas, with songs of freedom: Simone, Reeves, Harris, Giddens, Staples, Ranky Tanky, Ladysmith, Soares, BaianaSystem, Owens, Horn... Playlist Nina Simone “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free" by Billy Taylor & Dick Dallas from ...

Jazz is Alive and Well at the Exit Zero Jazz Festival in Cape May, NJ

by Mark Robbins
February 13, 2026

The biannual fall edition of the Exit Zero Jazz Festival transforms Cape May, New Jersey, into an intimate jazz haven with a distinct New Orleans influence, complete with a traditional second line procession. The festival's name references its location at Exit 0--the final exit at the southern end of the Garden State Parkway. The ...

2026 Winter JazzFest Marathons: A Survival Guide

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 6, 2026

For jazz fans who are in New York, when one countdown ends with the Times Square Ball Drop, another one begins--and ends a few days later, when Winter JazzFest officially gets underway with the first downbeat at Le Poisson Rouge. For 22 years, the festival has been the launch pad of the jazz year ...

Best of the Best: Jazz From Detroit

by Paul Rauch
December 1, 2025

Best of the Best: Jazz From DetroitMagic Circle Productions LLC2025   The history of jazz music is told in hundreds of cities from coast to coast in America. From the cradle in New Orleans and the Mississippi River delta, the great migration of Black Americans northward spread the sounds that we know ...

2025 Detroit Jazz Festival: All Free, All Jazz

by Paul Rauch
September 18, 2025

2025 Detroit Jazz Festival Hart Plaza & Cadillac Square Detroit, MI August 28-September 1, 2025 There is a story Detroit Jazz Festival President and Artistic Director Chris Collins loves to tell about an intimate conversation he had with Gretchen Valade. Valade had rescued the festival from the brink of financial demise ...

Terri Lyne Carrington and Christie Dashiell, Lido Pimienta, Adam O'Farrill and more

by Hobart Taylor
June 5, 2025

Terri Lyne Carrington and Christie Dashiell reimagine the Max Roach classic We Insist!, a deep dig into the vaults of 70's Detroit's Strata East Records with a cut from Charles Tolliver' all-star big band and Dave Sharp's Worlds Quartet's latest. Playlist Zela Margossian Quintet “Indiferent World" from (Single) (Ropeadope) 0:00 Adam O'Farrill “Migration" from ...

Sharel Cassity: In the Spirit

by Katchie Cartwright
May 19, 2025

Even on an old familiar tune like Charlie Chaplin's “Smile" (1936), it is clear from note one that Sharel Cassity is a child of Bird, an altoist in the modernist tradition of Charlie Parker. Her first influence was actually her biological father, an organist, with whom she shared the stage in New Orleans at age 11, ...

Winter Jazzfest 2025: The Once and Future Music

by Adam Beaudoin
April 9, 2025

Winter JazzfestNew York, NYJanuary 9-15, 2025 Impressions of A Love Supreme We are standing in a line outside the venue, waiting in the January chill to listen to nearly two dozen musicians perform and pay tribute to John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, 60 years to the month after its release. People ...

Jazz at Lincoln Center JALC Jazz Congress 2025

by Katchie Cartwright
January 31, 2025

Jazz at Lincoln Center JALC Jazz Congress 2025 New York, NYJanuary 8-9, 2025 In Frederick P. Rose Hall, the gorgeous home of Jazz at Lincoln Center overlooking Columbus Circle in New York City, the JALC Jazz Congress brought artists and industry professionals together for two days of panels and ...