Profiles Drummer Lily Finnegan Turns the Heat On, with New Music on Many Fronts A s drummer Lily Finnegan talks about her band Heat On and her recent collaboration with pianist and NEA Jazz Master Marilyn Crispell, she mentions one suggestion she received in both situations: play more. Not to imply that the 29-year-old Finnegan is one to keep… Nov 5, 2026 Interviews All at Once: The Improvisational Largesse of Son Lux’s Rafiq Bhatia and Ian Chang Nov 4, 2026 Special Feature A Hard Look at Soft Machine: On the New Audio/Video Box Set, Slightly All the Time Nov 3, 2026 Special Feature Overdue Ovation: James Emery Nov 5, 2026 Blog VOX: Janis Siegel’s Vocalese Art Transfers Beyond Manhattan Oct 31, 2026 Live Brooklyn’s BRIC JazzFest 2026: We Listened, We Yelled, We Took Notes Oct 29, 2026 Latest Stories And Away We Go: Jackie Gleason, Jazz and the Music for Lovers Only LP Series Oct 8, 2026 From Paris and New York, Live, with Love: Thelonious Monk Birthday Month Oct 7, 2026 Rhonda Hamilton: 2026 NEA Jazz Master Sep 15, 2026 Patrice Rushen: 2026 NEA Jazz Master Sep 12, 2026 Airto Moreira: 2026 NEA Jazz Master Sep 10, 2026 Carmen Lundy: 2026 NEA Jazz Master Sep 8, 2026 Citizen Arts International Festival Brings Free Interdisciplinary Performance and Jazz to New York Sep 5, 2026 Cassandra Wilson, Boundary-Breaking Jazz Singer, Songwriter and Producer, Dies at Age 70 Sep 3, 2026
Features Tributes & Obituaries Big Band-Cabaret Vocalist Peggy King, Queen of the Comeback, Dies at 96 P eggy King, a jazz and big band singer and 1950s television star who staged a late-in-life comeback at 84,… Oct 26, 2026 Profiles Unheard Cut-Ups of William S. Burroughs, Brought to Light by James Ilgenfritz, Elliott Sharp and Free Jazz/Avant-Garde Cohort U nlike his Beat Gen contemporaries Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Kenneth Rexroth — performative speakers and writers tied to… Oct 19, 2026 Interviews Marla Kether’s Bass Persuades, UK and Beyond S ince her days as a chemistry student and jazz whisperer at the University of Bristol, where she welcomed London’s… Oct 18, 2026 Special Feature Before & After: Pianist Matt Mitchell M att Mitchell spent his 40s — which began in 2015, the year he moved permanently to New York —… Oct 16, 2026 Interviews I Can See for Miles: 92NY Continues Miles Davis Centenary Celebration with M.E.B. and Eddie Henderson A fter a humid summer of Aaron Diehl, Ron Carter and the like in celebration of Miles Davis’s centenary, 92NY… Oct 13, 2026 Profiles Across the Universe(s) with Drummer-Composer Franklin Kiermyer and Scatter the Atoms That Remain W ith Scatter the Atoms That Remain, Franklin Kiermyer’s first new studio recording in seven years, the free drummer and… Oct 10, 2026 Interviews Pianist Mathis Picard Plays for Lincoln Center’s Living Memories: A Sonic Journey Through San Juan Hill T he median price for tony real estate surrounding New York’s Lincoln Center is around $2 million. A tiny studio… Oct 13, 2026 Profiles The Monkathon: Miles Okazaki Revisits the Complete Thelonious Monk for Solo Guitar in Five-Hour Movie M iles Okazaki was 12 or 13 when he first heard Thelonious Monk, and the youngster was immediately struck by… Oct 11, 2026 See more features
Reviews Albums Sweeps Week: October Historical Releases & Reissues S weeps Week concludes on the last Thursday of the month, with historical/reissue picks from A.D. Amorosi. Joey DeFrancesco, Live… Oct 29, 2026 Albums Top October Jazz Releases, Henkin Edition H ere are Andrey Henkin’s monthly picks, coming to you the last Wednesday of the month. BFA Trio, Hurtling Between… Oct 28, 2026 Albums Sweeps Week: Top October Jazz Releases, Amorosi Edition H ere are A.D. Amorosi’s monthly picks, coming to you the last Tuesday of the month. Josh Johnson, Animative (International… Oct 27, 2026 Albums Sweeps Week: Top October Jazz Releases, Monday Mix Edition W e wrap October with another Sweeps Week, featuring top editorial picks of the month. Jon De Lucia, The Brubeck… Oct 26, 2026 Live Stage-Hopping at Monterey Jazz Festival 2026 A s is perpetually the case with multi-stage festivals, the biggest challenge is mapping out one’s preferred experience. That scheme… Oct 20, 2026 Books Windy City Gets Its Due with New Volumes from Howard Reich and Jim Newberry F rom King Oliver and Louis Armstrong in the city’s Bronzeville area, from Muhal Richard Abrams, Steve McCall and Kelan… Oct 14, 2026 Albums A 60th Anniversary Look at Zappa’s Jazz-Jammed Invention of Freak Out-edness W hen this autumn’s 60th anniversary deluxe edition of Frank Zappa and his Mothers of Invention’s debut album, Freak Out!,… Oct 4, 2026 Live Live(stream) Review: Jazz Memorial for James “Blood” Ulmer, Saint Peter’s Church, New York F rom his primal (often) five-string stylings and his spiky out-of-control tunings to his steamy, yammering, tensely coiled avant-jazz blues,… Oct 2, 2026 See more reviews
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