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Wayne Shorter Joins Kennedy Center Honorees
December 11, 2018Jazz legend Wayne Shorter was hailed by the Kennedy Center for a six-decade career that included collaborations with everyone from Art Blakey and Miles Davis to Carlos Santana and Joni Mitchell. In presenting ...
Variety: How a Niche Jazz Imprint Became Record Store Day’s Mascot Label
December 4, 2018There’s no such thing as an “official label of Record Store Day,” of course; all of the majors and a significant portion of indie imprints participate in the semi-annual April and November gold rushes for ...
Roy Hargrove Dies at 49
November 3, 2018Roy Hargrove, a virtuoso trumpeter who became a symbol of jazz’s youthful renewal in the early 1990s, and then established himself as one of the most respected musicians of his generation, died on Friday in ...
NYT: The Harlem Jazz Club Where the Spirit of Billie Holiday Lives On
October 5, 2018Taking our orders at Minton’s Playhouse, the Harlem jazz club, our French waiter, improbably named Karl Smith, says that when he got to New York, he was determined “to do something very American.” More
Jazz band breaks new ground
September 26, 2018A local jazz band, WVC Jazz, is hoping the global fame of the film Crazy Rich Asian will help them enter the international music scene. WVC Jazz Ensemble saxophonist Julian Chan, 40, said it was a great opportunity ...
UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music offers new bachelor’s degree in global jazz studies
September 1, 2018Undergraduates interested in careers as jazz performers, producers, teachers and/or scholars of jazz will now have the opportunity to receive a bachelor of arts degree in global jazz studies, beginning in fall 2018. ...
Houston celebrates jazz legend Arnett Cobb’s 100th birthday with music
August 6, 2018A teenage Arnett Cobb used to wander around the Fifth Ward looking for some wide-open space to play his saxophone. This was during the 1930s, when the neighborhood wasn’t quite as densely populated. “He’d just find ...
Tomasz Stanko 1942-2018
August 1, 2018Polish jazz trumpeter Tomasz Stańko has died aged 76, following a lung cancer diagnosis earlier this year. Tomasz Tłuczkiewicz, deputy head of Poland’s Jazz Association, confirmed that Stańko died early on Sunday at ...
NPR: Wayne Shorter Announces ‘Emanon,’ Multiverse-Inspired Triple Album
July 27, 2018Wayne Shorter was 15 when he first wrote and illustrated his own comic book, in blue ballpoint pen. That was in 1949, and Shorter has traveled great distances since, becoming an influential saxophonist, a 10-time ...
NPR: John Coltrane’s Lost Album A ‘Buried Treasure’ For Jazz Fans
June 24, 2018On March 6, 1963, John Coltrane and his quartet arrived at Van Gelder Studios in New Jersey to record an album. It was a busy time for the group, which featured pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison and ...
