Pianist/composer A Bu, whose given name is Dai Liang, has outgrown the “child prodigy" tag but not the attributes. A student at Central Conservatory in Beijing, and later at Juilliard, he was ...

Charles Lloyd, is an NEA Jazz Master and recipient of the prestigious French honor, l'Ordre Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. Voted DownBeat magazine’s Artist of the Year in 1967, Charles Lloyd was ...

Jazz sous les Pommiers welcomes Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Chris Potter, Larry Grenadier and Eric Harland, four heavyweights of North American jazz reunited for the first time as part of the First Meeting ...

Guitarist Metheny has been sating his sentimental side as of late, his latest disc trafficking in luminous solo spins through the old favs like the Carpenters and Stylistics. Still, he always sounds ...

Saxophone giant Charles Lloyd‘s new album, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow, his 11th on the Blue Note label, opens dramatically with just the mellow, tonally plush sounds of drums provided by ...

Double bills don’t get much better than this. In a bit of programming kismet, the Symphony Center Presents Jazz season led off with defining quartets linked to still-more-defining saxophonists: Wayne ...

On Thursday, June 12, the SFJAZZ Gala will honor producer, musician, and President of Blue Note Records Don Was with the Lifetime Achievement Award. The event will also feature a tribute to the late ...

The Bad Plus pianist treats his extracurricular activities with a refreshing informality. When he blows through jazz nuggets such as “Good Bait” or “Little Melonae,” he likes to slap ’em around a bit.

The San Francisco Jazz Festival is changing things up for 2025. Instead of its usual multi-week run, where only a limited number of shows are featured per day, this year’s festival will showcase 35 ...

Legendary guitarist Jakob Bro revitalized the pensive romanticism of the ECM Records sound with last year's Taking Turns, and continues his crusade in Live at the Village Vanguard. His strategy is ...

What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.