News, new releases and stories from the world of jazz and its surrounding culture.
Miriam Klein, the Basel-born singer whose 1973 Billie Holiday tribute Lady Like featured Dexter Gordon, Roy Eldridge and Slide Hampton, died on Oct. 2 at 89, her family announced in early November.
George Benson received the Jazz Foundation of America's Tommy LiPuma Award for Recording Excellence at a Nov. 1 fundraiser in Los Angeles, where Patrice Rushen, Azar Lawrence, Henry Franklin and Roy McCurdy were saluted as Titans of Jazz.
The Queens Jazz Orchestra, directed by saxophonist Antonio Hart, marks the centennial of NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Heath on Saturday, Nov. 7, at Flushing Town Hall with Heath's orchestral compositions, including works the venue says have never been performed for the public.
Pianist Matthew Shipp and bassist William Parker release A Whole System Of on Nov. 6, 2026, on Whit Dickey's TAO Forms — their fourth duo album — with a Roulette Intermedium concert set for Dec. 4.
Vietnam's Jazz Heritage Festival opens Nov. 6–8, 2026, in Da Lat, Lam Dong province, headlined by Lisa Ono, Raul Midón and Nik West alongside Vietnamese big bands and guests.
The Darius Brubeck Quartet releases Live Again on Nov. 6, 2026, on Gathering Forces/ECN Music, drawing on November 2025 concerts at Palermo's Real Teatro di Santa Cecilia, with an album launch at Ronnie Scott's on Nov. 11.
Impulse! Records releases John Coltrane: The Tiberi Tapes on Nov. 6, 2026, bringing previously unheard early-1960s club recordings made by saxophonist Frank Tiberi to 4-LP, 3-CD and digital formats.
Plovdiv Jazz Fest opens its 12th autumn edition Nov. 6–8 at the Boris Hristov House of Culture, with Aaron Parks, Shai Maestro, Elina Duni, Emma Smith and a Miles Davis centennial project.
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation announced its 2026 Awards for Artists on Nov. 4 in London, naming freely improvising trumpeter Charlotte Keeffe and composer-cellist Ayanna Witter-Johnson among five composer recipients of £75,000 each.
Guitarist Marc Ribot has released Hurry Red Telephone on Pi Recordings, his first all-instrumental album since 2014's Live at the Village Vanguard, reuniting with drummer Chad Taylor.
Amsterdam pianist, multi-instrumentalist and Conservatorium van Amsterdam teacher Oscar Jan Hoogland receives the biennial Willem Breuker Prijs on Nov. 4 at the Bimhuis.
The third Baltic Young Jazz Competition holds its final on Nov. 4 at Ezītis miglā in Riga's Tallinas quarter during the second Riga Music Week, with young artists from across the Baltics.