Pianist Orrin Evans wants to have a word. “I’ll be 50 in March, and I have been doing this for 30 years,” he said in a remote interview with DownBeat from his hometown of Philadelphia. “I’m really so glad to be on the cover, but at the same time, I’m wondering, why now?”

EastWest Studios is a state-of-the-art, multi-roomed recording facility on Sunset Boulevard in the heart of Hollywood with a history that reaches back to the early 1960s and before

Musical piece highlighting the late Quincy Jones

From Oct. 2 to Nov. 2, Heidelberg, the cultural hub of southwestern Germany, hosted the magnificent Enjoy Jazz–Festival for Jazz and More

Barry Guy Blue Shroud Band Ten Year Anniversary

Stories of major shifts and rebirths among musicians during the past five years are common, from weathering the pandemic to dealing with various sea changes in the ways the music industry works — or doesn’t.

"I Wonder Why" made Stigers a star all the way back in 1991. Now, he revisits it from the perspective of a fiftysomething who's learned how to best harness his own talents.

Where to start with Evan Parker's immense catalog? This recent collab with the Dave Green Trio, "Shuffle Boil," is a compelling entry point – a Monk tune that remains an avant-jazz standard.

The poet and saxophonist reminds us to step back and look hard at the things that are working against you.

With myriad examples of American harm to Black people, Masta Ace sums up an ambient feeling perfectly — flatly concluding that it's like someone took "the welcome mat and put a torch to it."