For decades he helped shape Rhode Island’s venerable folk and jazz events, presenting stars and unknowns alike. One colleague called him a “test pilot of jazz.”
Category: Jazz
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Dolly Parton Reunites Two Beatles, and 12 More New Songs
Hear tracks by aespa, Guns N’ Roses, Cautious Clay and others.
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Clarence Avant, Quiet Force in Black Entertainment, Dies at 92
Behind the scenes, he furthered the careers of numerous entertainers, as well as some athletes and politicians.
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Jon Batiste Has Got the Whole Wide Music World in His Hands
The pianist is following his Grammy win with “World Music Radio,” a concept album that challenges genre borders and carries a message of open-armed inclusivity.
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Leny Andrade, ‘First Lady of Brazilian Jazz,’ Dies at 80
With her soulful, cigarette-tinged contralto and emotive “bossa-jazz” stylings, she mesmerized audiences and critics alike.
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Secret No More: Louis Armstrong Center Amplifies Satchmo’s Vision
New jazz and exhibition spaces, and an inaugural show curated by Jason Moran, feature the trumpeter’s “wonderful world” in full, collaged onto the walls.
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Why Nina Simone Was Always Ahead of Her Time
A recently unearthed live version of “Blues for Mama,” written by Simone and Abbey Lincoln in the 1960s, took on domestic abuse in a momentous way.
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5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Miles Davis’s Electric Period
Navigate the trumpeter’s snaky, endless grooves with picks from Flying Lotus, Cindy Blackman Santana and Terence Blanchard, among other musicians, writers and critics.
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A Trumpeter Stretches Past the Bounds of Jazz
Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah’s new album, “Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning,” is his first on which he doesn’t touch the trumpet. Instead, he extends the legacy of Black masking Indians in New Orleans.
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A Thrilling, Rediscovered Nina Simone Set, and 9 More New Songs
Hear tracks by Snoh Aalegra, DeYarmond Edison, Explosions in the Sky and others.
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João Donato, Innovative Brazilian Musician, Is Dead at 88
A prolific pianist, composer and arranger who began recording in the 1950s, he was a pioneer of bossa nova but didn’t confine himself to any genre.
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The Amiable, Unswerving Tony Bennett
In an 80-year career, he stuck with one mission: illuminating songs he cherished.