The schedules for the 2019 Winter Jazzfest marathons are out, along with some lineup additions. The marathons also include James Poyser + Bilal, Makaya McCraven, Meshell Ndegeocello, Ezra Collective, Mary Halvorson, Nellie McKay, Kassa Overall, Nubya Garcia, and more.
How many UC Berkeley English majors are leading jazz-rock bands capable of attracting top talent and filling venerable jazz venues? Not many, we can only guess, but Jenny Scheinman is doing just that with Mischief and Mayhem, her genre-bending quartet that also includes Wilco's Nels Cline...
Additions include Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet) + Mats Gustafsson (The Thing), Paal Nilssen-Love (The Thing) + Arto Lindsay, Ikue Mori, Marc Ribot, Yuka C. Honda (Cibo Matto), and more.
The awesome lineup also includes Jenny Hval, Juana Molina, Julie Byrne, Kelly Lee Owens, Laurel Halo, Lightning Bolt, Rostam, Sam Amidon, Steve Gunn, and still much more.
Earlier this year, Margaret Glaspy released a two-song 7" via her new label ATO. She just announced that she'll be releasing her debut album Emotions and Math on June 17 and shared the title track off it. She also added several tour dates.
"Two years after singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell released the ambitious and career-defining folk opera Hadestown - a musical retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice set in Depression-era America - she's back with a decidedly different but equally ambitious effort, ...