Ron Carter aspired to be a classical cellist, but ended up as a bass player who helped shape modern jazz. He was a member of Miles Davis' classic 1960s quintet, ... Read More

Latin Jazz pianist Eddie Palmieri will bring his band, La Perfecta II, to the Frederick P. Rose Hall at Jazz at Lincoln Center on February 6th and 7th, 2009. Palmieri ... Read More

On February 27th, the SFJAZZ Collective will begin its 2009 tour, during which it will perform arrangements of tunes by pianist McCoy Tyner as well as original compositions by each ... Read More

On Tuesday, January 20th, 2009, saxophonist David "Fathead" Newman passed away after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 75 years old. Newman was schooled in the bebop and R&B ... Read More

The Bad Plus' new album, For All I Care (Heads Up International) will be released February 3rd, 2009. The album features Minneapolis rock vocalist Wendy Lewis. The addition of a ... Read More

The coming week holds two events that remind us of the struggle for racial equality: Monday, January 19th is Martin Luther King Day, and Tuesday, January 20th we will inaugurate ... Read More

Tomorrow, Friday the 16th of January, jazz critic Gary Giddins will interview saxophonist Joshua Redman at the CUNY Center for Humanities in Manhattan. According to the center's website, Redman will ... Read More

Read my review of the NYC Winter Jazzfest, which took place on Saturday, January 10th, 2009. I write my impressions of the shows I saw at the fifth annual festival ... Read More

The Village Vanguard in Manhattan's Greenwich Village has been showcasing great jazz since it opened in the 1930s. If you are offended by what you consider to be an exorbitant ... Read More

Esteemed jazz writer Nat Hentoff has been laid off by the Village Voice, the weekly paper for which he has been writing since 1958. New Times Media, a large publisher ... Read More