Blog Tag - Jazz
The Blue Note stage is set to be graced by a different kind of sound tonight and Friday night, when French musician Thierry Maillard and his band the...
Experience a whole week of all that jazz plus a little bit more jazz at the Tanko Pretty Things Jazz Festival in Tanko Moofland Park. We’re giving...
If you’ve hung around Ichiban Gai First Avenue (the strip of Japanese bars and restaurants just west of Solana and Chaoyang Park) as of late, you may...
Ever since the first trumpet was bent into existence, innovators like Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis – and contemporary composers like Ambrose...
If you have ever encountered Beijing-based, Finnish guitarist Jukka Ahonen (and considering he’s in about five bands off the top of my head, that’s...
You know you’re doing something special when critics call your band "the missing link between Public Enemy and Louis Armstrong.” Eight-piece New...
As if it wasn’t enough to win the illustrious Thelonius Monk International Trumpet Competition, Chicago jazz star Marquis Hill can also boast about...
![R1 ''We Need a Jazz Band, but They All Have to Be Foreigners" : The Discrimination Faced by Asian Musicians](https://www.thebeijinger.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_list_image/public/thebeijinger/blog-images/379541/thebeijinger-jazz-discrimination_1.jpg "R1 ''We Need a Jazz Band, but They All Have to Be Foreigners" : The Discrimination Faced by Asian Musicians")
Even though Beijing's jazz scene is booming these days, the benefits don't always reach the musicians involved. In fact, some artists face harsh...
“Play ‘City of Stars!’” a smiling Chinese man hollers from the back of The Bricks, the Sanlitun jazz club resembling Seb’s from the film La La Land....
He may only be 19 years old, but Beijing pianist A Bu has already attained a lifetime's worth of jazzy milestones. Aside from studying at prestigious...
There are lively interviewees, and then there’s Nancy Jenkinson Brown. The British expat has the air of a golden age jazz musician, with her regal...
When Norah Jones sings one of your songs, and you win a Grammy in the process, it might seem like you have it made. However, when songwriter and...
For a man passionate enough to dedicate his life to jazz, Simone Schirru certainly didn’t get off to an early start. The Italian guitarist only began...
He's collaborated with some of the biggest names in hip-hop and R&B, such as Beyonce, Kendrick Lamar, Common, and Erykah Badu. But Bilal is no...
There are bars with a throwback vibe in Beijing, and then there’s Tango by Ala House. Aside from the vintage wood grain, green marble, puffy leather...