Aug. 3 would have been Little Rock-born jazz musician Art Porter Jr.’s 50th birthday. The saxophonist died in a boating accident in Thailand in 1996, not long after performing at a festival celebrating the reign of King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
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Detroit Jazz Festival delivers jazz for the ages | Michigan Chronicle
And every year, for the past 38 years, Detroit has hosted what has become not only the largest free jazz festival in the world, but also, I would argue, the most authentic.
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Is It Jazz? Improvisation? Tyshawn Sorey Is Obliterating the Lines | The New York Times
NEW HAVEN — “I never listen to music passively,” the musician and composer Tyshawn Sorey said recently, nestled in an easy chair at his home studio here.
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Geri Allen, Pianist Who Reconciled Jazz’s Far-Flung Styles, Dies at 60 – The New York Times
Perhaps more than that of any other pianist, Ms. Allen’s style — harmonically refracted and rhythmically complex
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Newly Uncovered Recordings Find Thelonious Monk In His Prime – NPR
In 1959, the peak of his playing years, Thelonious Monk did something he’d never done before: record music for a film.
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Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement -ThoughtCo
How Jazz Musicians Spoke Out for Racial Equality
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The Best Jazz Albums of 2016
Plus the best historical releases.
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Shabaka Hutchings on the New Generation of Jazz
My first encounter with U.K. saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings was in 2015 at Inside Out Jazz Lounge in Soweto, an intimate live music venue in the home of renowned percussionist Thebe Lipere.
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