Jazz lives onstage. It’s a music that requires in-the-moment interaction between players, in front of audiences, to grow, develop, and thrive. And yet, in a year that was effectively without live ...

2020 was a tough year for a lot of jazz artists. Jazz clubs shut their doors and live performance, the driving force of the genre, came to a grinding halt. Despite this, the music carried on through ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The year 2020 was a fine one for listening to prerecorded music, at home. Live jazz got off to a promising start in mid-January, when the blazing electric ...

One of the categories of jazz I love most is modern jazz guitar. And 2020 has been a banner year with more releases in this category than any year in memory by some of the finest guitarists in the ...

The pandemic compressed live music onto screens, and Black Lives Matter protests brought it back to the streets. What will it all look like, and sound like, in 2021? By Giovanni Russonello When ...

Wolfgang Dauner was a German jazz fusion pianist who worked in the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble and with Hans Koller, Albert Mangelsdorff, Volker Kriegel and Ack van Rooyen. He was the father of ...

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