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Photos: Esperanza Spalding, Michael Feinstein, Wynton Marsalis and more at Newport Jazz Festival

Newport Jazz Festival | August 5 - 7, 2011
Newport Jazz Festival comes to Fort Adams State Park on August 5 - 7, 2011.
By JEAN HANGARTER | August 10, 2011

Some must-see acts at this weekend’s Newport Jazz Festival

Horns of plenty
To kick off the 2011 edition of the NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL , MICHAEL FEINSTEIN harks to the Voice's classic 1958 date, essaying a handful of Tin Pan Alley chestnuts in his own bravura-flecked style.
By JIM MACNIE | August 03, 2011

Joe Lovano Us Five | Bird Songs

Blue Note (2011)
It's worth taking Lovano's word that this is not a Charlie Parker "tribute" album.
By JON GARELICK | January 11, 2011

Society's demands

Esperanza Spalding | Sanders Theatre | October 2, 2010
Esperanza Spalding wants to prepare her listeners for something different with her new Chamber Music Society (Heads Up). She made that clear at Sanders Theatre Saturday night.
By JON GARELICK | October 06, 2010

Esperanza and Kenny

Spalding's chamber music; Werner's elegy
Spalding's chamber music; Werner's elegy
By JON GARELICK | September 28, 2010

Fall Jazz Preview: Blindfold test

Trying new flavors in the new season
A search for this fall’s must-see jazz revealed a lot of overlapping personnel — Jim Hobbs, Allan Chase, Joe Morris, Taylor Ho Bynum. Hey, you wanted to know what’s good , right?
By JON GARELICK | September 16, 2010

Lionel Loueke | Mwaliko

Blue Note (2010)
Benin-born, Paris-and-Berklee-educated guitarist Loueke knows how to cover a lot of ground and make it all sound of a piece.
By JON GARELICK | February 16, 2010

No identity crisis

Nando Michelin and Matt Steckler know who they are
If great art and great artists are supposed to contain multitudes, then in music, at least, pianists have the edge: 10 fingers theoretically capable of 10 different simultaneous paths for the music to take. Of course, it's not that simple.
By JON GARELICK | February 08, 2010

Linda Oh Trio | Entry

Linda Oh Trio (2009)
Chinese-Australian bassist Linda Oh (now living in NYC) favors a spare setting on this debut: trumpet, bass, and drums.
By JON GARELICK | September 28, 2009

Teachers and students

NEC and Berklee set the jazz stage
Several of this fall's promising jazz performances are clustered around the week of October 18. That marks the 40th-anniversary celebration of the jazz-studies program at New England Conservatory, which, created by Gunther Schuller, established NEC as one of the international twin beacons of jazz education in Boston along with Berklee College of Music.
By JON GARELICK | September 14, 2009

Covering the bottom end - and the bottom line

Newport Jazz comes back with a bang
The biggest news made by the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals the past two weekends was that they happened at all.
By JON GARELICK | August 14, 2009

Newport Jazz Festival 2009

Jazzy!
Jazzy!
By JEAN HANGARTER | August 13, 2009

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Year in Jazz: Playing for keeps

By JON GARELICK | December 22, 2008

Split personality

Jenny Scheinman gets herself together
Jenny Scheinman is such an unassuming, modest musician that it’s easy to underestimate the radicalness of her two new CDs, Jenny Scheinman and Crossing the Field .
By JON GARELICK | June 02, 2008

Breaking through

Esperanza Spalding steps up her game
In the overall retail picture, jazz accounts for about three percent of sales, and a “hit” CD is anything that exceeds 10,000 copies.
By JON GARELICK | May 19, 2008

Destination out

Leo Genovese tries to play what he doesn’t know; plus David Torn’s Prezens
In a town bursting with young musical talent, Leo Genovese might be the most explosive.
By JON GARELICK | March 24, 2008

Birds of a feather

The jazz flocks gather at Newport
What continues to make the JVC Jazz Festival at Newport so vital these days isn’t just the variety but the depth of the variety.
By JON GARELICK | August 15, 2007

All dolled up

Yes, Virginia, but there’s more to the local scene than Amanda and Brian
We have seen the face of Boston rock and roll, and it’s got painted-on eyebrows.
By BRETT MILANO | June 06, 2007

Nights on the town

Brandão, Coltrane, and Redman move the beat around
By now, the bossa nova of Antonio Carlos Jobim has been completely ingrained in the language of jazz and pop.
By JON GARELICK | May 16, 2007

All them 88s!

A whole lotta pianists and more
From free to funky, it sometimes seems like a golden age of jazz piano.
By JON GARELICK | December 28, 2006

Visionary sounds

A year in jazz and pop
Sonic Youth, Andrew Hill, Bob Dylan, and more
By JIM MACNIE | December 20, 2006

Let ’em sing!

A year in jazz
Here, in no particular order, are some my favorite things from among the people, CDs, and performances I wrote about this year.
By JON GARELICK | December 18, 2006

The natural

The education of Esperanza Spalding; plus, Jeremy Udden’s solo debut
It’s getting late on a Tuesday night at Bob’s Southern Bistro in the South End and I’m searching my memory for the last time I’ve heard and seen what’s happening now: a jazz singalong .
By JON GARELICK | May 31, 2006