Jazz

Montreal Jazz Festival Cancels 2020 Edition Due to Coronavirus

PUBLISHED Apr 3, 2020

Following the lead of Just for Laughs, Montreal's International Jazz Festival has cancelled its 2020 edition due to the coronavirus pandemi...

Ellis Marsalis, Jazz Patriarch, Dies at 85

PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2020

Ellis Marsalis — a jazz pianist, music educator and the patriarch of the Marsalis family — has died. In a statement, son Branford Marsalis...

Italy's Sonor Music Editions Opens the Vaults for Self-Isolation Livestream Series

PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2020

With much of the world on lockdown over COVID-19, we need music more than ever, and for now, that means music at home. Helping us stay sane...

Jon Hassell

Vernal Equinox

PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2020

While the trumpet is often synonymous with some of the greatest jazz of all time, Jon Hassell's trumpet has forged a different path, toward...

Cameroonian Musician Manu Dibango Dies of Coronavirus

PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2020

Manu Dibango — a Cameroonian musician and songwriter revered for his fusion of jazz, funk and traditional Cameroonian music — has died of c...

Stream 'Visions' from Matthew Tavares and BADBADNOTGOOD's Leland Whitty

PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2020

Today marks the release of Visions, a collaborative album from BADBADNOTGOOD sax player Leland Whitty and former keyboardist/guitarist Matt...

Jazz Pianist McCoy Tyner Dies at 81

PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2020

Alfred "McCoy" Tyner — the American jazz pianist best known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet — has died. Tyner's family confirme...

BADBADNOTGOOD Members Explain How 'Disappearance at Clifton Hill' Score Led to Forthcoming Album

PUBLISHED Feb 28, 2020

BADBADNOTGOOD have moved a long way away from their hip-hop-covering, viral fame-accruing early days, and they're about to keep pushing thi...