Although Christian McBride has recorded a number of duo recordings with top-shelf talent—including McCoy Tyner and Jim Hall—he’s never released a full album devoted to such recordings. That’ll change on November 8 when Mack Avenue Records releases Conversations With Christian, on which the 39-year-old bassist duets with “13 of my [...]

Guitarist John Scofield, who graces the cover of the October digital issue of JAZZIZ magazine, is set to tour the United States (with one stop in Quebec along the way). He’ll be accompanied by pianist Michael Eckroth, bassist Ben Street and drummer Gregory Hutchinson. The tour begins at Catalina’s, in [...]

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has named Latin jazz drummer and composer Dafnis Prieto one of 22 new MacArthur Fellows for 2011. In a phone call he received upon returning from a European tour, the 37-year-old Prieto learned he had received the award worth $500,000, distributed quarterly [...]

In our Fall issue, we ran a fine profile of singer Madeleine Peyroux, written by a likewise fine scribe from Philadelphia named Shaun Brady. Now—surprise! surprise!—it’s been announced that Miss Peyroux is embarking on a Fall tour in support of her lovely recent release, Standing On the Rooftop. Coincidence? Yeah, [...]

The 9th annual Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT) will take place at Manhattan’s Jazz Standard from October 20-23. This year the festival celebrates the work of 81-year-old trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, a Canadian native who’s resided in the UK since 1952. Good news: Wheeler, who rarely ventures to New York [...]

Following in the footsteps of his recent Grammy wins for The Imagine Project (“Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals,” “Best Improvised Jazz Solo”) and his appointment as a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, Herbie Hancock will embark on a North American tour this Fall. It’ll be his first solo tour, incorporating elements from [...]