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EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is the first in a series of personal tributes to members of the jazz community whom we lost in 2021 …
There are two kinds of jazz listeners. Those who recognize Jim Knapp as a profound large-ensemble composer and arranger of uncommon imagination, depth, and …
On an unseasonably warm evening in December, just at the opening break of Omicron and yet another shift in everyone’s lives, alto saxophonist/composer …
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Jeff Ballard—drummer, bandleader, educator, and intrepid spirit—plops himself down into the chair onstage with a smile and a dark beer. Less than an …
We got to know each other in the early ’70s. We met at this club called Rapson’s in Port Chester, New York, right over …
It could be argued that the most underrecognized person in jazz recording and performance is not the producer, the live sound engineer, or the recording …
JazzTimes is honored to present the premiere of “You’re All That Matters to Me” by singer, songwriter, and saxophonist Curtis Stigers. The track will …
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Wayne Shorter and Esperanza Spalding’s …(Iphigenia) in Washington
Wayne Shorter and Esperanza Spalding’s opera …(Iphigenia) begins with a woman dropping dead. Even in opera’s greatest tragedies the bodies don’t usually …
