via Downbeat Magazine When Red Baraat hits the stage and starts pumping out its ecstatic melange of genre-busting music that fuses 18th century Indian ensembles with Bollywood, Bhangra, Jain devotional songs, New Orleans brass bands and hip-hop born in Brooklyn,…
via UK Jazz News The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s interview with harpist, composer, and bandleader Brandee Younger. Her new album, Gadabout Season, featuring bassist-producer Rashaan Carter and drummer Allan Mednard, as well as guests Shabaka, Courtney Bryan, Niia, and Josh Johnson, was released 13 June via…
via The Wall Street Journal On an exuberantly original new album, the singer and pianist reimagine jazz standards from Duke Ellington, George Gershwin and others. The songs that constitute the Great American Songbook will bend, but they won’t break. This body…
via Guitarist Electric guitar virtuoso Matteo Mancuso is the latest guitarist to link up with Jason Becker, with the pair sharing a moment “that beautifully bridged generations of guitar greatness”. Becker was one of the hottest guitarists in the world in the late 1980s,…
via San Francisco Chronicle It casts no shade on Don Was’s impressive musical career to acknowledge that it wasn’t his instrumental prowess that led to his SFJazz Lifetime Achievement Award. A founding member of the zany but hard-grooving Detroit band…
Out everywhere June 13, 2025! Ask any true jazz fan to draw up a list of the greatest vocalists of the modern era and the name Dee Dee Bridgewater will inevitably appear at the top. Repeat the exercise for contemporary…
The Jazz Journalists Association has announced 46 winners of its 2025 JJA Jazz Awards, the 30th annual celebration of excellence in creation of jazz music and jazz-related media. Professional members of the non-profit JJA – the writers, photographers, broadcasters, videographers,…
The Long-Time Supporter Of The Performing Arts Community Provides $6.3M In Grants To Support Artists (May 1, 2025 – New York) Today, May Day, the Doris Duke Foundation (DDF) announced the six recipients of the 2025 Doris Duke Artist Awards – the largest…
The Rolling Stones, Lucinda Williams, Taj Mahal and Steve Earle are among the guest musicians who recorded songs for a new tribute album to zydeco legend Clifton Chenier. “A Tribute to the King of Zydeco” features those musicians along with…
via University of Miami Frost School of Music News and Events Dean Shelton G. “Shelly” Berg, who has led the Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music at the University of Miami since 2007, will step down from his position…