Cristian Perez’s Musica Mundi: Guitarist With a Global Appetite Shares His Vision
D.C. embodies the spirit of musical fusion. For decades, artists in the nation’s capital have stretched the boundaries of...
Category: Interviews
A conversation with Wayne Shorter, jazz’s patron bodhisattva
Few names in jazz, or in the music world as a whole, command as much reverence and attention as...
What’s next for rising vocalist Christie Dashiell? The young talent talks about family, reality TV fame and Janet Jackson
I first witnessed Christie Dashiell performing with Howard University’s jazz choir Afro Blue some years ago. I was struck...
Marquis Hill: Jazz’s most celebrated young trumpeter on the ‘Modern Flows’ of Black music today
Marquis Hill is fast becoming one of the leading trumpet players of his generation. His sound is strong but...
After a banner 2015, Reginald Cyntje uses a familiar musical family to conjure fresh ‘Moods and Colors’
Trombonist Reginald Cyntje was born on the island of Dominica and raised in St. Thomas, but for the past...
‘My country is the whole world:’ Trumpet legend Hugh Masekela reflects on a lifetime of pathbreaking music
Hugh Masekela, perhaps South Africa’s greatest living musical ambassador, has been a prolific musician at the forefront of the...
Jazz visionary Igmar Thomas: In a world of boundaries, ‘I just want great, creative music’
In an industry seemingly obsessed with labels, trumpeter Igmar Thomas is hardly concerned with conforming to cookie cutter boxes....
Béla Fleck’s Jazz Tones: The banjo virtuoso talks about touring with Chick Corea
Dr. Billy Taylor once offered a comprehensive and open definition of the word jazz: It’s both a style and...
A Walk Through Time with Jack DeJohnette
There is a hard line between good and great in jazz. Many cats can play well, with a deep...
Greg Tate on Burnt Sugar, Afrofuturism and Black music’s ‘maroon spaces’
The 1990s were a time of overstated attitudes, swollen bubbles, and the warm expectation that somehow things might work...