This year’s summer music festival Prague Proms has two jazz highlights for the opening weekend. This prestigious music festival ranges in genres from film scores, classics, and...
For their upcoming appearance at the Colours of Ostrava Festival, set in its apocalyptic ruins, yet surreal environs in an industrial region of northeast Czech Republic, the Donny...
Carla Bley is a highly regarded jazz composer and pianist and her trio with bassist Steve Swallow and tenor saxophonist Andy Sheppard is a first-rate unit. She began playing with...
For a group that plays astoundingly powerful and expansive music, The Necks are one of the most inexplicable groups on the contemporary music scene, and this is partly due to...
Avishai Cohen, from Tel Aviv and now based in New York City, has been praised as one of the best new jazz trumpeters by polls and critics, and he is compared to Miles Davis for...
April 23, Sunday—Hebden Bridge Town Hall, West Yorkshire, UK April 24, Monday—International Festival of Jazz Piano, Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic. – The American...
American jazz composers and particularly the pianists have not been shy to take inspiration from Classical music over the years, since the time of Duke Ellington, and Art Tatum....
Mladi Ladi Jazz Festival presents a nation-wide tour (in the Czech Republic) of Oran Etkin’s various projects: Timbalooloo concerts for kids, Gathering Light concerts and a...
What does Ornette Coleman. The funk-master electric bassist of jazz and world music groove, Bill Laswell, Brian Jones, and the Rolling Stones’ have in common…the...
Blue Note is one of the most important jazz labels for their recordings in the 1960s and 70s. Vintage post-bop, soul jazz, funky groove, modern and experimental to post-modern,...
Greil Marcus’s brilliant book “Weird America” was written to explore the secret roots of Bob Dylan’s music—obscure ballads and folk legends, which usually led to...