When you’ve been around music for a while, it’s fun to realize how far you go back with some artists. Case in point: Rebecca Roudman and her band Dirty Cello play Kuumbwa Jazz Friday night. In a ...

The cellist reunites with guitarist Mary Halvorson, bassist Jason Roebke and drummer Tomas Fujiwara for five stunning tracks that are boundary-pushing yet populist ...

This is FRESH AIR. More jazz musicians died in 2022 than we have time to acknowledge. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead remembers a few jazz musicians who passed this year, starting with cello player Abdul ...

A family relic passed down to a youngster. A trip to a special event. It’s impossible to know the impact of such simple gestures.

Wadud, saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, organist Joey DeFrancesco, trombonist Grachan Moncur III, trumpeter Jaimie Branch and saxophonist Ronnie Cuber are among the notable musicians who died in 2022.