This week, one of the great innovators in creative music, saxophonist/composer Roscoe Mitchell will be featured. I've been enjoying Mitchell's reworking of trio improvisations as transcribed for ...

Pop star Sabrina Carpenter was nominated in 6 categories, including album of the year, but left without any trophies.

Brad Mehldau has something new in store for jazz fans this time through town. The acclaimed musician, who the New York Times once famously described as “the most influential jazz pianist of the last ...

Dr. Pierre van der Westhuizen, Executive and Artistic Director of The Gilmore, announced today the premiere video release of a recent concert by three Grammy-winning jazz artists: acclaimed pianist ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Bassist and bandleader Christian McBride has spent a considerable amount of his 52 years in the spotlight, and deservedly so. A restless practitioner of the ...

I have to admit it’s been difficult writing this story. Because every time I start writing, Christian McBride’s soothing upright acoustic bass lures me back in, and I’m caught up in the free-flowing ...

After a full day of providing jazz clinics to local high school bands and students from the CSUN jazz program, nine-time Grammy-winning bassist Christian McBride and his newest quintet, Ursa Major, ...