On Friday, January 21st, bassist/composer William Parker (pictured) and his Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield ensemble will celebrate their comprehensive two-disc live set, I Plan To Stay A Believer (AUM Fidelity), with a performance at (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York. Parker and the group have paid tribute to R&B [...]

Drummer Jimmy Cobb and his So What Band will be at the Count Basie Threatre in Red Bank, New Jersey, on February 13 for a concert to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue. Cobb is the only surviving member from the original recording who leads an [...]

Alan Lomax had a profound impact on the American musical landscape. As a folklorist delving into indigenous regional music, he provided the first field recordings of iconic figures such as Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie and Muddy Waters. Now, the Alan Lomax Archive has launched its own Global Jukebox imprint to [...]

Recently a bunch of folks gathered on the rooftop of the Thompson Hotel in Los Angeles, California, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew. The event also served as the launch party for a new monthly online publication called The Revivalist, the first issue [...]

Charles Lloyd’s New Quartet—featuring the veteran saxophonist along with pianist Jason Moran, bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Eric Harland—is about the hottest group working in jazz these days. Unsurprisingly, the band’s recently released studio debut, Mirror (ECM), a deeply personal and wonderfully executed album, has landed on a good many [...]

In 2009, Smalls Jazz Club owner Spike Wilner (pictured above) launched the smallsLIVE record label with the simultaneous release of 11 jazz discs, all of them recorded live at the Greenwich Village club that first opened in 1993. Those recordings documented a fair sampling of the great music that’s played [...]