Some Other Time: The Lost Session From the Black Forest is a newly unearthed studio session from the iconic pianist Bill Evans featuring bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Jack DeJohnette. Recorded on […]

Latin Jazz saxophonist Leandro “Gato” Barbieri, who composed the Grammy-winning music for the steamy Marlon Brando film Last Tango in Paris and recorded dozens of albums over a career spanning more than […]

Pianist and melodica virtuoso Jon Batiste on meeting his musical hero Quincy Jones at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival.

“Life is already complete. You can’t learn what life is. And the only way you die is if something kills you. So if life and death are already understood, what are we […]

Jazz is America’s music. Jazz was born in the United States. Jazz is really the best music to represent America because: It is partly planned and partly spontaneous; that is, as the […]

From a late 50s big band gig, a feature on a popular standard with a unique vocalist and saxophonist who never quite found fame, but with a distinctive style, nevertheless.

The jazz world has had its share of workplace bullies. Drummer Buddy Rich was notorious for his rudeness and peremptory sackings, and double-bassist Charles Mingus would assault musicians mid-performance if he thought […]

With “Made In Chicago”, an exhilarating live album, Jack DeJohnette celebrates a reunion with old friends. In 1962, DeJohnette, Roscoe Mitchell and Henry Threadgill were all classmates at Wilson Junior College on […]

Keep On Keepin’ On, directed and written by Alan Hicks. Eighty-nine year old trumpeting legend Clark Terry has mentored jazz wonders like Miles Davis and Quincy Jones, but Terry’s most unlikely friendship […]