Stay tuned for a retrospective of the Newport Jazz Festival under the artistic direction of Christian McBride, covering 2016 to 2025. In the interim, below is the material covered for much of that period, 2021 to 2025.
For generations, in high schools across the country, the nerdiest mathletes have battled over who…
Decades after its disbanding, Weather Report’s legacy remains as significant as ever. Songs like “Birdland”…
With LINDA (Blue Note, 2026), acclaimed South African saxophonist and composer Linda Sikhakhane delivers his…
In his autobiography, Music is My Mistress (Da Capo, 1973), Duke Ellington stated that “Jazz…
It becomes far too easy to focus on the here and now. It is easy…
An indelible memory of Sullivan Fortner comes from the 2023 Blue Note at Sea, when…