In the world of jazz, few names carry the weight of influence and respect like Gail W. Boyd. With a career spanning nearly five decades, Gail has established herself as a pivotal figure in the genre, blending her expertise as an entertainment lawyer and artist manager with her passion for …
One would expect that the title of Lorraine Feather’s most recent album, The Green World, would refer literally to environmental urgency. Especially since the album’s cover features apparently calm, or no doubt confused, giraffes standing majestically but separately in a maze of hedgerows that appear to stretch to infinity, or …
The Chicago Jazz Orchestra’s (CJO) Annual Summer Residency at The Jazz Showcase starts today at 5:30 PM. Tonight’s special guest is the beloved vocalist Paul Marino. TICKETS HERE “He swings hard …a giant baritone that manages to be both virile and gorgeous, Marinaro infuses the essence of jazz – the …
Producer Jimmy Katz’s decades of experience with the art of jazz have culminated in the establishment of an innovative organization that has attained a unique standard of generosity for leading-edge musicians. Giant Step Arts, which Katz and his wife Dena established in 2018, assists its roster of jazz musicians with …
Multi-Grammy Award-winning producer Ryan Truesdell and the Gil Evans Project have reopened the Gil Evans Project vaults to release a new album of material, SHADES OF SOUND: Gil Evans Project Live at Jazz Standard, Vol. 2, out May 30, 2025 on Outside in Music. Following in the footsteps of the …
Internationally acclaimed saxophonist and woodwindist Sharel Cassity’s new release, “Gratitude”, out March 28th on Sunnyside Records, shares with audiences and listeners a conversation of joy, hope, and celebration. Joining Cassity on the release are eight-time Grammy-award-winning bassist and composer Christian McBride, drummer Lewis Nash, and pianist Cyrus Chestnut as well …
This year marks a monumental milestone in jazz history as we celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of the legendary James Moody. A true innovator, Moody left an enduring mark on the world of jazz with his exceptional skills as a saxophonist, flutist, and composer. From his iconic …
It’s not that regional big bands are making a comeback. Regional big bands—with top-notch musicians, imaginative compositions, and unique sounds—have never gone away. Many of them, like Count Basie’s Kansas City band or King Oliver’s New Orleans band, moved to bigger cities, where larger audiences and more lucrative opportunities existed. …
Chiaroscuro: illumination and darkness. Saxophonist Noah Preminger has always explored sonic contrasts of brightness and shadows to explore human emotions—not to the rigid extreme of tenebrism, but instead, through investigations of the shades in between. Ever since Preminger released his first album, Dry Bridge Road, soon after he graduated from …
THE WINDY CITY’S OLDEST CONTINUOUSLY OPERATING JAZZ ORCHESTRA — HELMED BY FOUNDER & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR JEFF LINDBERG — PAYS HOMAGE TO ONE OF THE GREATEST JAZZ GUITARISTS OF ALL TIME TO BE RELEASED MARCH 28 VIA CHICAGO JAZZ ORCHESTRA RECORDS The Chicago Jazz Orchestra (CJO), under the direction of Jeff …
In the booklet contained within Elemental Music’s package of Sun Ra’s recordings in Chicago, Marshall Allen, one of the musicians who succeeded Ra in leading his orchestra, states that “Rawas preparing the band for the 21st century.” Well, now is the 21st century. And a new generation of listeners is …
Unexpectedly, the pause in their plans to record Sanctuary was beneficial, as violinist Jason Anick and pianist Jason Yeager later realized. The hard stop that the COVID pandemic imposed upon the world allowed the two musicians to rethink the project and to observe the catastrophic ways that the first-in-a-century epidemic …
