Jazz Artists 1980-2020

Music For Black Pigeons

Filmed over the course of 14 years in various locations such as North America, Europe, and Japan, Black Pigeons captures intimate, improvised moments between pioneers of experimental music at recording spaces in New York, Copenhagen, and Lugano. more

Is Today’s Jazz Too Strange For Modern Audiences?

Is today’s jazz too strange for a modern audience? Most of my friends don’t like jazz, they are either into hip hop, trap music, Latin music or K-pop and the idea they have of this music is something rooted in the past. For those not in the know, jazz can seem like this ... more

How did Smooth Jazz Evolve? A Deep Dive With Shizuka Shearn

Intro Smooth jazz, we all know what that is. It’s the unobtrusive, glossily produced music that pipes into grocery stores, dentist offices and shopping malls. Quite often, the word “jazz” for the general public is synonymous with this style and will elicit a gag ... more

Change (Makes You Wanna Hustle)– Blue Note till it wasn’t Blue Note Anymore

Change is an inevitable part of the universe. Matter and humankind are born, they morph, they die. “Change, (Makes You Wanna Hustle)” the title of the Mizell Brothers track on Donald Byrd‘s 1975 hit album Places and Spaces had a point. Likewise, since the ... more

New York Jazz Workshop Remembers Chick Corea (1941-2021)

The heroes and legends that define this music, our ancestors that we pay homage to are transferring from the earthly realm. Chick Corea, one of the most important modern keyboard innovators and composers, passed away on February 9th from a rare form of cancer. The following ... more

Restless Visionary: Eight groundbreaking Herbie Hancock tracks

Herbie Hancock is a restless visionary and groundbreaking artist. This year marks the 80th birthday of one of music’s most important innovators. Growing up in Chicago, being a classical piano prodigy, and having an insatiable appetite for curiosity, both as a player and ... more

5 slices of Dave Liebman

In preparation for One Hour With Liebman at New York Jazz Workshop on August 28th, we present a primer with 5 slices of NEA Jazz Master Dave Liebman. Of course, we will start from where he made his initial splash, with Elvin Jones. What makes Liebman so important besides being ... more

ONA: New York Jazz Workshop in Conversation at home with Thana Alexa

Welcome to the New York Jazz Workshop In Conversation at home podcast. The music you are hearing is “The Resistance” off vocalist Thana Alexa’s brand new recording ONA (Self produced, 2020). Her sophomore album celebrates not only the journey of herself as a ... more

New York Jazz Workshop Remembers Lyle Mays (1953-2020)

In this blog post, New York Jazz Workshop’s CJ Shearn offers a personal, heartfelt statement on the brilliant pianist Lyle Mays, who passed away February 10th in Los Angeles, after a long fight battling a recurrent illness. The jazz and music world is much poorer now ... more

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