via Jazz Journalists Association Winners of the Jazz Journalists Association’s 29th annual Jazz Awards have been announced on JJAJazzAwards.org. Among the honorees are Cécile McLorin Salvant for Female Vocalist of the Year, Artemis for Mid-sized Ensemble of the Year, and…
via The Blues Foundation Bobby Rush celebrated double victories at The Blues Foundation Presents The 45th Annual Blues Music Awards held in Memphis on May 9, 2024. The legendary artist and the Blues Hall of Famer clinched the B.B. King…
via DOWNBEAT Over the course of his remarkably eclectic, multiple-Grammy-winning career — one that stretches across four decades — banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck has boldly, almost defiantly, taken his five-stringed instrument where no banjo player has gone before. Consider this…
via The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Terence Blanchard graced the stage on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Monday evening, April 15, 2024, delivering a stunning performance that included his own composition “Breathless.” Béla Fleck made a separate…
via The New York Times The first time the musician Judith Hill performed her anguished requiem “Black Widow” for an audience, she wept, right onstage. The song’s title is an epithet that has been directed at her for years by tabloids and…
via NPR’s Mountain Stage Cedric Burnside‘s latest performance on NPR’s Mountain Stage aired on over 260 NPR stations on April 19, 2024. His setlist featured beloved tracks such as “Please Tell Me Baby,” “What Makes Me Think,” and “Step In,”…
Mark your calendars for June 18th, 2024, as the American Patchwork Quartet (APQ) makes a historic debut at the Grand Ole Opry. This performance isn’t just a debut; it’s a groundbreaking celebration of global musical traditions intertwining with the deep-rooted…
via The Guardian Charles Lloyd is the last man standing of an inspired 1950s American saxophone generation, which included his late friends and contemporaries John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman, and the now-retired Sonny Rollins. He once recalled to the Guardian that the…
via Rolling Stone Judith Hill is paying tribute to the sacrifice and fight of the powerful women who raised her. The Grammy winner (and Prince protégé) debuts the video for “Dame de la Lumière,” written about her mother and grandmother’s perseverance,…
via VPM Renowned pianist Abdullah Ibrahim says that his outlook on music is to approach each note with total honesty. It’s a philosophy that’s brought him from the musical melting pot of Cape Town to New York City’s famous Chelsea…