On Friday, August 4, 2023, the historic Newport Jazz Festival presented a highly pleasurable afternoon of music, as it has…
We conclude our series of 2023 Newport Jazz Festival pre-event interviews with a conversation with Christian McBride. Fittingly, our third…
Jazz music has long had an interesting, albeit complicated, relationship with more popular musical forms. Swing bands were the pop…
Often the best music seemingly transports the listener - by the artist’s direction - to another time and place. The…
When one considers a historical museum, thoughts of those no longer with us often come to mind. Figures who made…
Ingrained in jazz, hip hop, punk, gospel, and R&B, tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis has discovered a unique way to…
Anyone who frequents the Newport Jazz or Folk Facebook groups would likely recognize the name Jack Casey. For the last few years, Casey has…
One cannot adequately assess the history of the Newport Jazz Festival without examining the recordings captured at the event through…
In the second part of our Conversation with Lonnie Liston Smith (read part one here), we discuss his time with…
Across their almost twenty volumes of the Jazz is Dead series, performer-producers Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge have exposed…