It has been a period of painful revelation and reckoning for women in the workplace across the country, and the same was true for jazz. But 2017 also felt like a moment of progress.
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Netflix for Jazz? Quincy Jones’s Qwest TV Takes Concerts and Films Digital | The New York Times
Qwest will operate like a highly specialized version of Netflix: Members pay a small fee each month for access to the full video library.
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Herbie Hancock: ‘I like to discover new rules so I can break them’ | The Guardian
The great jazz pianist on his years in Miles Davis’s legendary quintet, his debt to Buddhism and why he still has the urge to innovate
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Thelonious Monk’s Quiet, Slow Conquest of the World | The Atlantic
For decades a respected but somewhat eccentric figure even within the jazz scene, the pianist and composer is at the peak of his influence as he reaches his centennial this month.
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The Genius Of Miles Davis | Fader
In this story from our June 2005 Photo Issue, percussionist and former band member Mtume reflects on the jazz legend’s complicated legacy.
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The Wright Museum to celebrate jazz legend Thelonious Monk | Michigan Chronicle
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History (The Wright Museum) presents an event-filled weekend Oct. 13-14 to commemorate the centennial of jazz legend Thelonious Sphere Monk.
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(2011) Art Porter Jr.’s 50th Birthday Celebration
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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Smithsonian Museum Taking African Americans to Paris | Afro
Want to go on a luxurious trip to Paris with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture where you’ll learn about the city that famously embraced African-American expats?
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