The nonprofit venue’s artistic director has long booked and guided artists from her gut.

This label’s 86-year run has been one of the most storied in jazz — and it’s still going. Hear tracks by Wayne Shorter, Sonny ...

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also, the Dakota, $30-$40); Chris Koza hosts the seventh annual Mpls ... s “Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning,” he abandoned trumpet in favor of a West African n’goni as well as a bowed ...

When Max Roach heard George with this unit in 1958, he invited him to join his own quartet featuring Kenny Dorham on trumpet. Coleman moved to New ... and then go into a studio such as the famous Sear ...

Wafia’s sound has shifted with the times ... But Perrett’s addiction to his art emerges as assisted living rather than dying, plugged in against any blackness. It’s been almost 12 years ...

One of hard bop’s chief architects, Connecticut-born pianist-composer Horace Silver was also a co-founder member of The Jazz Messengers and helped to establish the two-horn frontline (trumpet ...

Esperanza Spalding is arguably one of the few modern players who are doing the most to advance the art of bass ... s instantly recognizable bass sound was one of three equal reasons why Sonic ...

The contemporary art installation was audible via speakers in the portico, or entrance, of St. Peter’s Basilica.