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.
When most “Everyday People” think of funk, they perceive it in a maximalist sense. They…
In a recording studio sat a drummer behind his kit with two signs hanging nearby.…
1956. In the popular consciousness, the grandeur of swing era big bands had ceded to…
Even well into the second half of his eighties, Gary Bartz remains one of the…
Pianist and composer Helen Sung delivers her first big band album with Oracles (Sunnyside, 2026). The seventeen-piece big…
Few concepts so profoundly shape the human experience yet remain as elusive as time. Without…