A David Murray Double Bill
For decades, David Murray was known as one of New York's most monstrously talented and astoundingly prolific artists — a tenor saxophonist who played and wrote for just about every imaginable context....
View ArticleReginald Cyntje Group At Bohemian Caverns
The Washington, D.C. area trombonist Reginald Cyntje speaks English with an accent — it's a patois from the U.S. Virgin Islands, where he grew up. He also plays jazz with a Caribbean accent, where hard...
View ArticleIntroducing The Reginald Cyntje Group: Who Are These Guys?
The artists featured on this week's Jazz Night In AmericaWednesday Night Webcast are, by a fair margin, the least-known performers we've had on the program. Their names don't travel far outside the...
View ArticleMarcus Roberts And The Modern Jazz Generation At Jazz At Lincoln Center
The pianist Marcus Roberts rose to prominence as a gifted performer — first with the Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center bands for years, then with his own trio and as a classical soloist. Along...
View ArticleAnat Cohen & Choro Aventuroso At Jazz At Lincoln Center
The jazz clarinetist and saxophonist Anat Cohen comes from Israel, studied and lives in the Northeastern U.S., and maintains a deep affinity for Brazilian music. Specifically, she's a specialist in the...
View ArticleHow To Turn A One-Man Band Into A 10-Piece Orchestra
When trumpeter and composer/arranger Steven Bernstein first met the virtuoso pianist Henry Butler, he says he was floored. "This is it," he recalls thinking. "This is like the music that I always...
View ArticleSFJAZZ Collective Plays Joe Henderson And More
Every year, each of the eight members of the SFJAZZ Collective is tasked with two writing assignments. The first: Compose a new piece specifically for the band, which gathers some of the most...
View ArticleThe Best Of Jazz Night In America, Season One (So Far)
In our first 19 Jazz Night In America webcasts, we've presented over 150 musicians from 13 venues in six cities — with many more musicians and locations on the way. Whether in huge concert auditoriums...
View ArticleIngrid Jensen And Steve Treseler Play Kenny Wheeler
The late, distinctively melodic jazz composer Kenny Wheeler was also a great trumpet player, though, being famously self-effacing, often declined to toot his own horn about his talents. Many musicians...
View ArticleFirst Listen, Kamasi Washington, 'The Epic'
The word "epic" sits cheerily amid the most overused hyperbole of our age.
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