Ornette Coleman

I witnessed a miracle tonight, wrote Roots drummer Ahmir Questlove Thompson after seeing Fela!, a theatrical production inspired by the life and music of legendary Nigerian musician, bandleader and political activist Fela Kuti. Read More

PARIS - Jazz, along with cinema and rock music, constitutes one of the major artistic developments of the 20th century. Read More

Mr. Brown had a long and prolific career producing work on religious, historical and urban themes in addition to his portraiture. Read More

Few have ever accused Joshua Redman of being a slacker. Read More

Since first joining forces in 1998 with guitarist and kindred spirit Jordan Officer in her Swing Band, Montreal-based singer Susie Arioli has been casting her seductive spell on jazz fans throughout Canada, and in Europe. Read More

With his new work, Jazz Miniatures for Double Quartet, Alexis Cuadrado continues to define his compositional voice following his recent impressive works, A Lorca Soundscape and Noneto Ibérico. Read More

Liza Minnelli is the 14th recipient of the Ella Fitzgerald Award, established in 1999 for our 20th anniversary and conferred in recognition of the versatility, improvisational originality and quality of repertoire of a singer renowned on the international scene. Read More

Jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman famously said that the difference between jazz and rock all comes down to one musical dynamic. Read More

For the first time since his 1980 release 80/81 , guitarist Pat Metheny has recorded with a band that features tenor saxophone. Read More

Besides being a kinetic explorer of the avant-garde aesthetic, alto saxophonist Darius Jones is also a soulful preacher, a romantic poet and a memoirist recounting his personal story through what he calls "the sonic tone poem" of his life. Read More