Here Because Of Hope is Ezra Collective's first album since their 2024 full-length, Dance, No One's Watching. In addition to Salieu, the project features Leona Lewis, Jamaican singer Lila Iké, Cameroonian singer Libianca, and Black Panther actress Letitia Wright. The album encompasses genres of the Black diaspora including calypso, afrobeat, and grime.
The statement said the Saxophone Colossus died at his home in Woodstock, New York on Monday afternoon. The statement quoted Rollins reflecting on death: I think when the creative person ends, he continues in the next existence. I'm a person who believes this life isn't the be-all and end-all of everything. A spiritual person doesn't feel like that.
Two time GRAMMY winner and drumming icon Peter Erskine brings his trio featuring longtime collaborator Alan Pasqua on piano and Scott Colley on bass. They will perform music from Peter's new recording Peregrine, a project Erskine describes as "the album I've always wanted to make." Contrasting tempos feel relaxed and buoyant, while subtle dynamic control reveals beautiful interplay between the instrumentalists.
David Landis (The Gay Gourmet at the San Francisco Bay Times) and husband Sean Dowdall on April 23, 2026, hosted a 10th anniversary fundraiser party for the Amateur Music Network. It was held at The Academy SF.
Walter Smith III, the formidably resourceful 45-year-old Houston-born saxophonist, is a sublime example of the jazz tradition's enduring contemporaneity. His sound and incisively rugged phrasing bring many sax icons to mind, but his storytelling focus makes new music of it all.
The Molly Miller Trio lives in that sweet spot where chops meet fun, with guitar lines that feel effortless even when they are doing something ridiculous under the hood.
Samara Joy sings with old-school phrasing and a modern calm that makes the Great American Songbook feel freshly alive. Her tone is warm and centered, her control is ridiculous, and the swing is the real flex, every line shaped with patience and purpose.
Fresha, born Frescia Belmar, is nominally a jazz bassist, but her artistry transcends the form, moving effortlessly between jazz, rock, fusion, and R&B.
Alice Coltrane was integral to the radicalism of her husband's late, gamechanging period from the masterpiece A Love Supreme onwards. Not only did they create a sense of stability from 1963 in raising a family and marrying, post his quitting heroin, but they were partners in spiritual and musical exploration.
Cupid gets his main-character moment this weekend. We asked New Yorker staffers to help build a playlist befitting his romantic mission. For a classic piece of nineties Brit pop, Oasis's " Slide Away" is basically an absurdly romantic ballad of plain devotion and yearning-which "Wuthering Heights" has established as the emotions of the season. May your Valentine's Day be all about both!- Noreen Plabutong
He battled the often fatal disease with a unique combination of courage, fortitude and humor. After all, humor was just one of Ken's many remarkable gifts. He was without question the quickest and sharpest wit amongst all our artists. Ken always brought joy to every gig or occasion. No one came away from a conversation with him without a laugh or smile.
The Bad Plus have expanded their farewell tour, including stops in Seattle, Boise, NYC, DC, Albany, Montreal, Northampton, and more. All dates are listed below. The NYC show is at Sony Hall on June 19, and tickets for all just-announced dates go on sale Friday, February 6 at 10 AM local time. In addition to the farewell dates, The Bad Plus' Chris Potter and Craig Taborn will be touring a tribute to Keith Jarrett's American Quartet, and those dates are below.
The last swing music revival of the late 1990s heralded in by groups like the Brian Setzer Orchestra may have seemed like the end of the line for the big band-fueled dance craziness - just don't tell that to Rebecca Roudman.
Destin Conrad dropped his second studio album, a jazz project titled wHIMSY. Both albums climbed the charts, and Conrad snagged a Grammy nomination for best progressive R&B album for Love on Digital his first as a solo artist. In an interview with All Things Considered, Conrad said he sometimes wondered if people wouldn't take him seriously as a musical artist because of his history on the former video-sharing app Vine, where Conrad shared quirky jokes and clips of himself singing samples
The highly impressive group reflects the current state of jazz, where both young guns and veterans are combining to bring the music to a new swell of fans. To talk about the present state of jazz, The Times brought together 26-year-old Joy and 75-year-old Bridgewater. What followed is an incredible conversation on politics, race, equality and mutual fandom. You both have had Grammy success.
She released more than 50 albums as a leader or featured guest, including four definitive projects with the witty singer, songwriter and pianist Dave Frishberg. She performed several runs at Feinstein's at Lowes Regency in Manhattan with the Harry Allen Quartet, as well as with pianist Michael Feinstein himself. As the years went by, she performed more frequently at Trad Jazz festivals, on Jazz Cruises, and at events such as the San Diego Jazz Party, where she was named a "Jazz Legend" in 2016.
Ethan Buck, on alto saxophone, shined while doubling Kabir's solos with his own simultaneous soaring lines, bringing the set to repeated climaxes. But it was Kabir's night, and rightly so. Neither a soul flutist in the vein of Bobbbi Humphrey, an avant-gardist like Eric Dolphy nor a showman like Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Kabir is reaching for something deeper, and she frequently finds it.
