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The Sudanese jazz bass player helping her country’s ‘revolution’
March 13, 2019Islam Elbeiti is young and restless. The 24-year-old jazz bass player is part of the youth bulge in Sudan. Nearly 60 percent of the country’s population is under 30. For her entire life, the only leader ...
WAMU: D.C. Jazz Lovers Find Their Groove In Offbeat Places
February 21, 2019The city that gave birth to Duke Ellington used to be a hotbed for live jazz. Long-time fans reminisce about the sounds that came from the Howard Theatre and clubs like One Step Down and Bohemian Caverns. But ...
NYT: Jazz on the Edge of Change
February 19, 2019The Armistice to end World War I brought elation and a sense of relief to millions of Americans, but also a jolt of reality. The country had only been in the conflict for 19 months, but it had already adjusted to ...
The New Yorker: How Eric Dolphy Sparked My Love of Jazz
January 31, 2019I got into jazz because of Dave Brubeck, but jazz got into me because of Eric Dolphy. I had just turned fifteen when a random encounter with Brubeck’s music made me start listening curiously to New York’s jazz ...
Nicole Mitchell to Lead Jazz Program at University of Pittsburgh
January 16, 2019The Dietrich School has named Nicole M. Mitchell, an award-winning creative flutist, composer, bandleader and educator, as its William S. Dietrich II Endowed Chair in Jazz Studies, effective July 1, 2019. Mitchell ...
Nancy Wilson Dies at 81
December 14, 2018(PBS) Singer Nancy Wilson has died at the age of 81. Wilson — who was also a civil rights activist who marched in Selma — released more than 60 albums in a career spanning five decades, winning three ...
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
