A D.C. court ruled the Kennedy Center must cover Chuck Redd’s $252,479.70 in legal costs after dismissing its breach-of-contract suit against him — a case the judge linked to political retribution.
A D.C. court ruled the Kennedy Center must cover Chuck Redd’s $252,479.70 in legal costs after dismissing its breach-of-contract suit against him — a case the judge linked to political retribution.
The legendary jazz club will open its first UK location in Covent Garden on what would be John Coltrane’s 100th birthday, presenting a season that deliberately blurs genre boundaries.
The Washington-raised singer pairs a jazz-laced pop arrangement with a visual that turns cosmetic procedures into horror.
The drummer’s new live recording abstracts the 1968 album “Members, Don’t Git Weary” into a sprawling, uneasy meditation for the present.
This Friday’s releases center on returns that carry real weight and projects that know exactly what kind of sound and attention they want to hold. Long silences end with evolved statements from The Temper Trap and If These Trees Could Talk. Jack White sharpens his guitar language into something even more direct and physical. Suki …
The nonprofit Music in Exile brought six musicians from Australia, Senegal, and Burkina Faso to a studio on Hydra. The resulting album cuts a direct path between West African folk traditions and sharp, present-tense jazz.
The pianist’s fifth album as leader applies episodic composition to a close-knit quintet, prioritizing equilibrium over virtuosity.
The Bird and the Bee singer gathers decades-old songs from a forgotten theater piece, reimagining them with jazz arrangements and bringing them to the stage for the first time.
The lawsuit, filed after Chuck Redd pulled out of a Christmas concert following the name change to include Donald Trump, was thrown out for lack of a signed contract.
The saxophonist, who died at 95, built a catalogue that reshaped jazz improvisation not through grand statements, but through relentless, in-the-moment invention.
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