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Blue Bird Inn in Detroit spared from demolition after historic designation
January 7, 2021One of the most fabled sites in Detroit music is off the endangered list. The long-abandoned Blue Bird Inn — a vital nerve center for homegrown jazz and visiting artists during the heyday of ...
GoFundMe Campaign Launched to Help Save Birdland Jazz Club
January 4, 2021Yet another one of New York's most beloved venues is in danger of closing for good. Birdland Jazz Club, a staple of the New York City jazz community since 1949, needs help with the debt it has ...
Jazz Clubs Are in Crisis
October 20, 2020For many jazz venues, shuttered because of the pandemic, live streaming is the only option they have to keep the music playing. But streaming as a revenue source doesn’t make the venues’ owners ...
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Joshua Redman visits Myanmar
July 5, 2019In this 2015 video, Joshua Redman visits the remote areas of Myanmar (also known as Burma) where the International Rescue Committee provides health, and development support to villages.
Jazz Night In America | Can you hear melody in the drums?
February 22, 2019What would you say if I told you that drums can sing? The best jazz drummers have always understood this as fact. Allison Miller has even made it a core part of her artistic mission — as drummer, ...
Jazz Deconstructed: John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps”
November 15, 2018In the first of three in a new series, Vox breaks down what made Coltrane's Giant Steps such a groundbreaking and iconic composition in the jazz idiom.
