Cecil Taylor

Real Quiet joins the Red House Alternatives series with an evening of its signature hard-edged contemporary classical music. Read More

Take The Mars Volta, Rodriguez-López's most successful project, a band that crams Santana, Rush, Fugazi, Mexican cumbia and Miles Davis into a dissonant, virtuosic blur. Read More

In a spectacular box set, Columbia/Legacy is releasing a stunning 70-CD collection of the more than 50 albums that Miles Davis recorded for Columbia during the legendary trumpeter's remarkable association with the powerhouse label from 1955 to 1985. Read More

Back in 1971, three adventurous young US jazz musicians formed an uncompromising improv group called the Revolutionary Ensemble – a title that had resonances in the civil rights movement, the Vietnam war, and the radical transformation of jazzmaking that had been ignited by Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane. Read More

A unique endeavor, the annual International Solo Jazz Piano Festival is always a highlight of Prague's fall jazz season. Read More

"Whatever the mood dictates," says Payton, an elegantly soulful musician from New Orleans, who performs this year's SFJazz "Sacred Space" concert on a bill with the brilliant clarinetist Don Byron. Read More

"Whatever the mood dictates," says Payton, an elegantly soulful musician from New Orleans, who performs this year's SFJazz "Sacred Space" concert on a bill with the brilliant clarinetist Don Byron. Read More

The 7th Ave. home in the '80s and early '90s of Gil Evans' last orchestra, David Murray's octets, Abdullah Ibrahim's bands, Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy and other avant-gutsy acts closed last night (Oct. 24) without notice or fanfare. Read More

Vijay Iyer Trio - (ACT) - In a year that has been filled with excellent recordings, few have received more press than pianist Vijay Iyer's first piano trio CD. Read More

The singular sound artist Maryanne Amacher died yesterday at age 66; she'd suffered a stroke a couple weeks earlier. Read More