The Festival International de Jazz de Montréal (FIJM) is set to return this summer with one of its most ambitious editions yet (June 25 to July...
Los Angeles, CA (January 27, 2026)—This year marks the centennial of one of the 20th century’s most important cultural icons: trumpeter, bandleader, and composer Miles Davis. To honor...
Having seen Isaiah Collier and The Chosen Few last year in San Francisco, I foolishly thought he would be doing much the same show in Berkeley,...
Tribute albums – especially those proffered to legendary ancestors – often ride their way downwards, onto a slippery slope in the wrong direction. There are those...
Cuban alto saxophonists playing Afro-Cuban music – even Black American Music in the Afro-Cuban idiom – are well known. The best-known contemporary players of that instrument...
The last two recordings by Greg Diamond – Calera: Solo Sessions [2022] and, now the trio recording, Beata – have showed us in no uncertain terms...
Poncho Sánchez, widely recognized as one of the most influential Latin jazz percussionists of the modern era, has carved a distinctive path in music through his...
Further proof that America’s got talent, but sometimes refuses to give it due recognition is Robert Prester. The pianist is not simply prodigiously talented, but a...
If you have heard Alfredo Rodriguez’s latest album, Tocororo then you will certainly be familiar with the work of the extraordinary drummer, Michael Olivera, who played...
In 1987 Dave Liebman joined saxophonist Wayne Shorter, bassist Eddie Gómez, drummer Jack DeJohnette and pianist Richie Beirach in recording Live Under The Sky: Tribute to...
Just when you thought you knew everything there was to know about John Coltrane along comes the children’s book, Spirit Seeker – The Life and Musical...
The Guelph Jazz Festival is always a treat, always offering up a taste of fresh innovative music. On this occasion the festival looked back to one...
The Guelph Jazz Festival is the most innovative and avant garde festival in North America, it is award winning and international in scope inviting artists from...