Newport Jazz's 2022 lineup includes Norah Jones, Esperanza Spalding, Terence Blanchard, BADBADNOTGOOD, Makaya McCraven, Nubya Garcia, Sons of Kemet, and more.
NYC's The Village Vanguard reopened for the first time in 2022 on this past Tuesday (1/25) with a run of shows from pianist Vijay Iyer, bassist Linda May Han Oh, and drummer Tyshawn Sorey, who released the excellent ’Uneasy’ in 2021...
This week's playlist includes new music by Noname, Nick Cave, Dinosaur Jr, Wolf Alice, AFI, Denzel Curry, Real Estate, The Horrors, Guided by Voices, Half Waif, Lost Horizons, and more.
”The word ‘uneasy’ feels like a brutal understatement, too mild for cataclysmic times,” Vijay says of his first Trio album in over 5 years. ”But maybe, since the word contains its own opposite, it reminds us that the most soothing, healing music is often born of and situated within profound unrest.”
Nels Cline's Stained Radiance at Winter Jazz Fest 2011 (more by Andrew Frisicano)
Winter Jazz Fest is returning to NYC in 2012 and will take place in multiple Greenwich Village venues from January 6-7 including Le Poisson Rouge, Sullivan Hall, Kenny's Castaways, Zinc Bar, and The Bitter End...