Pat Metheny is a baaad motherfucker. I love Pat Metheny’s music, especially his work from 1978 to 2002. This is for those of you who need to know. Understand this: Metheny is to guitar what Kid (of Kid ‘n Play) was to the hi-top fade.
2020 is starting out on a positive note for British-born, L.A.-based guitarist, Chris Standring. Not only was he recently voted 2019 Artist of The Year by the Smooth Jazz Network, but Is There A Doctor In The House, the opening track from his upcoming album, Real Life, hit radio on January 27 an...
Monday, January 13—Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Frederick P. Rose Hall—Broadway at 60th Street, 5th Floor
Announcing the initial list of musicians who will be participating in sessions at Jazz Congress 2020:
Benny Benack III * Jaimie Branch * Dee Dee Bridgewater * Terri Lyne Carrington * Reg...
All staterooms on Blue Note at Sea '20 are currently reserved.If you wish to sail on the cruise you are urged to join the Wait List as there are often cancellations between now and the sailing date. With this sellout all staterooms on the 2020 Smooth Jazz Cruises 1 and 2, Jazz Cruise and now Blue No...
On March 30, 1970 Columbia Records released Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew and in doing so one door opened while another door closed. As he had been at the turn of the previous two decades, Miles was again on the scene, integrally involved in defining the new jazz paradigm...
Chris Standring announced via his newsletter his upcoming “big show” November 13th at Yoshi's in Oakland, California. “It's one of my favourite places to play,” he wrote. “I'd love to see you if you can make it. Gigs are also coming in for 2020.”
Live shows upcoming: November 13th at Yo...
Arguably the definitive drummer of the fusion generation, now Billy Cobham is returning to some of his 1970s music—but don’t expect a retread.
That’s the philosophy that Cobham brings to Crosswinds: Time Lapse Photos, his new album recorded at Fort Wayne, Indiana's Sweetwater Studios and...
Available Friday, November 29th, Bill Evans Live at Art D'Lugoff's Top of the Gate is back by popular demand. A new two LP gatefold edition, cut at 33 1/3 RPM will be released to include two complete sets of Bill Evans from 1968 captured live in New York City. This deluxe, limited-edition, 180gm han...
Founded in 1973 by Carl Jefferson, Concord Jazz is the foundational label of Concord. Synonymous with high-quality jazz, the catalog includes seminal works by legends such as Art Blakey, Ray Brown, Charlie Byrd, Rosemary Clooney, Stan Getz, Mel Torme, Tito Puente, Scott Hamilton, Mongo Santamaria, J...
First official large-scale collection of pivotal early recordings by the legendary Nat King Cole!
The first comprehensive collection of Nat King Cole's pre-Capitol recordings released officially in partnership with the Cole Estate. The LIMITED-EDITION 180g 10LP and deluxe 7CD boxed sets include an ...
"Yesun is the album I've always wanted to make" -Roberto Fonseca
Combining jazz sensibility and deep roots in the Afro-Cuban tradition, Yesun is the Havana-born artist's ninth solo album. The record delves into the music of Fonseca's homeland of Cuba while keeping its sights set firmly on the futur...
Entertainment Cruise Productions (ECP) recently announced extremely limited stateroom availability on its 2020 jazz cruise program (three separate cruises, five total sailings). Both sailings of the Smooth Jazz Cruise in addition to the single Jazz Cruise sailing are fully subscribed with signing up...
Released on October 11, 2019 by Artistry Music/Mack Avenue Music Group, Humanité is unlike any album GRAMMY® Award Winner and global recording artist Kirk Whalum has ever made–the synergistic result of encounters made, and relationships formed both onstage and off with some of the most renown...
In 1985, Miles Davis began recording an album called Rubberband which was set to be his first album for Warner Bros. Records following his departure from longtime label Columbia. That record was ultimately shelved; his first album for Warner would be 1986’s Tutu. Last year saw the title track t...
Jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis' no-nonsense approach to life, and his craft, has served him well in a musical career that has spanned nearly 40 years. Some might call him brash; others, cocky, but critics should know his feathers never ruffle. "I don't let what others think get under my skin," M...
Revered drummer, Jimmy Cobb, is set for the historic release of Remembering U, featuring a guest appearance by the late trumpeter Roy Hargrove and is the final recording session by legendary engineer, Rudy Van Gelder. A cd release party is slated for November 25, 2019 at Manhattan's Dizzy's Club, f...
Jazz pianist Larry Willis, a three time Grammy Award nominee passed away on Sunday, September 29, 2019 of an aneurysm in Baltimore, Maryland's Mercy Medical Center. During a long career he performed with such jazz stalwarts as Dizzy Gillespie, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, Nat Adderley, Stan Getz an...
Blue World by John Coltrane, a cd of previously unreleased music was released on Impulse! Records on September 27, 2019. The original composition Blue World had earlier been released on August 16, 2019. Originally commissioned by Canadian film director Gilles Groulx for the film, Le chat dans le sa...
Saxophone master James Carter has released his Blue Note Records debut, James Carter Organ Trio: Live From Newport Jazz. In addition to their own tour dates this fall in the U.S. and Europe in support of the new release, the trio will be part of a triple-bill of current Blue Note artists along with ...
Entertainment Cruise Productions recently announced that saxophonist Kamasi Washington and his band will be sailing and performing on the upcoming cruise, January 25-February 1, 2020. Kamasi burst onto the international scene in 2015 and has quickly emerged as an important new voice in the music. EC...
I generally like and respect author, jazz critic and pugnacious bomb-thrower, Stanley Crouch. Anyone who speaks truth to power as lustily as he does is my dog.
The generation of boppers after Bird didn't merely beebop they hard bopped and in so doing flung back the curtain on a brave new world.
