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Pat Metheny Called Him ‘The Best Guitar Player I’ve Heard.’ Watch Pasquale Grasso Perform ‘Over the Rainbow’
Pasquale Grasso may not be on your jazz radar on the moment, but the 30-year-old…
Year By Year: Five Essential Albums of 1981
Jazz may not have an official yearbook, but it does have a vast and well-documented…
Song of the Day: Richard Bona – “Muntula Moto”
Richard Bona, the Cameroonian bass icon and vocalist heralded by fans as “the African Sting,”…
Dig in with Qobuz: The Ultimate Jaco Pastorius Playlist
A partnership between JAZZIZ Magazine and Qobuz.com, Dig In with Qobuz playlists bring you expertly curated music…
Year By Year: Five Essential Albums of 1978
Jazz may not have an official yearbook, but it does have a vast and well-documented…
Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Announces International Guitar Competition
For 30 years the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Competition has played a pivotal role…
5 Reasons To Check Out the Detroit Jazz Festival
In jazz, few Labor Day traditions are anticipated with such eagerness and enthusiasm than the…
Pat Metheny Group – “Minuano”
Pat Metheny, one of the most critically acclaimed — and commercially successful — jazz guitarists…
Jack DeJohnette (with Pat Metheny and Herbie Hancock) – “Jack In”
Jack DeJohnette, whose drumming helped give shape to a number of jazz genres — from…
JAZZIZ Backstage Pass: Gwilym Simcock
We’re switching things up this week. Sitting in the host chair for this episode of…
Dig In: Guitar Shredders and Skronkers
Shredding. Verb. A style of guitar playing characterized by extremely fast flurries of notes and extremely…
Dig In: The Essential Jazz Guitar Playlist
Join us on a journey through the evolution of jazz guitar, starting with early pioneers like Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt and continuing through to modern masters like Pat Metheny, John Scofield and Julian Lage.
The Ultimate Jaco Pastorius Playlist
Legend has it that when bassist Jaco Pastorius first met Weather Report keyboardist Joe Zawinul,…
Ultimate Pat Metheny Playlist
Guitarist Pat Metheny was the visionary behind some of the most beautiful and stylistically adventurous music of the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s
Pat Metheny Elected into Royal Swedish Academy of Music
Pat Metheny has been elected into the prestigious Royal Swedish Academy of Music. The news…
A short history of … “Don’t Know Why” (Jesse Harris, 1999)
“Don’t Know Why” was originally written by singer-songwriter Jesse Harris and featured on his 1999…
National Endowment for the Arts names 2018 Jazz Masters
The 2018 recipients of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Jazz Masters award have…
DC Jazz Festival announces 2017 line-up
The DC Jazz Festival will take place in Washington D.C. on June 9-18. Headline acts…
The Contemporary Jazz Cruise to set out on its inaugural journey on Feb. 4, 2017
For the past 15 years, Entertainment Cruises Productions (ECP) has produced nearly 40 sold-out Jazz…
