Up And Down The Mississippi With Bill Frisell
For the past two years, the remarkably versatile guitarist Bill Frisell has curated Jazz at Lincoln Center's Roots of Americana series. For the final performance of the series, he took a crowd back to...
View ArticleCelebrating Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, who would have been 80 this year, was a boundary-pushing virtuoso on multiple wind instruments (sometimes at once). It certainly rubbed off on Steve Turre, who apprenticed with...
View ArticleWayne's World: Wayne Shorter With The Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra
Wayne Shorter is a living legend — a saxophonist, composer and lifelong original thinker. He's never been afraid to be different, which is perhaps why he's accomplished so much. Among his...
View ArticleWein's World: George Wein At 90
There's no one person responsible for creating music festivals — or for making them such a huge part of how we witness live performances today. But starting in 1954, one person developed a recipe for...
View ArticleJason Moran Plays Thelonious Monk's Town Hall Concert
" Thelonious Monk is the most important musician, period," Jason Moran says. He laughs out loud. "In all the world. Period!" Moran is in a dressing room deep within the John F. Kennedy Center for the...
View ArticleArturo O'Farrill Presents 'Cuba: The Conversation Continues'
The pianist and composer Arturo O'Farrill knows better than almost anyone that more than 50 years of a trade embargo between the U.S. and Cuba hasn't fully prevented the exchange of jazz between the...
View ArticleThe Making Of Marquis Hill
About a year ago, trumpeter Marquis Hill, now 28, traveled to Los Angeles, played five tunes for a panel of judges, and won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition . You can think of it as a...
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