Editor’s note: James Bowman III is a loving husband, a proud father and now also a grandfather. James clearly expresses loving gratitude for his life, he continues to be...
I first met the legend that is Maxine Gordon, last year in Paris. I went to interview her about her new book ‘Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon’ in the...
Serbian quartet Hashima has become one of the countries leading exponents of the contemporary jazz scene. The concept of Hashima began as a cycle of poems that were inspired by...
John Zorn, an ever-evolving saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist and composer, is taking his Bagatelles marathon project to Europe. After all, Beethoven has the most well-known...
German-based Jazz Media company JAZZMEDIA & MORE will launch a series of concerts this coming June at the renown Berlin jazz venue, the B Flat Jazz Club. The series promoted...
The reflective album, which MacFarlane calls “a collection of wistful, pensive songs,” features songs by Irving Berlin, Rogers and Hart, and Johnny Mercer. The tracks...
In 2001 Apple introduced iTunes, the service that largely ended the wild west of illegal downloads and piracy. Yesterday Bloomberg reported that at the Apple developer...
Kamasi Washington has been brewing a new concoction, a jazz gumbo with uplifting female and male vocalists, sometimes a Lalo Schifrin soundtrack dramatic flair, or a rousing...
Not one friend my age, when growing up, understood my youthful passion for the music of Glenn Miller. It wasn’t that he was an enigma, or that his band belonged to another...
Each year in late April, Bremen receives hundreds of jazz experts from all over the world, who exchange ideas over three days, initiate projects and often realise them after the...