The majestic drummer celebrates the album's fortieth anniversary at the helm of a quartet.
(Chinen) Jeff Williams Group (Saturday) Jeff Williams, a tasteful and versatile drummer, celebrates the release of "The Listener" (Whirlwind), his second album as a leader, featuring the trumpeter Duane Eubanks, the alto saxophonist John O'Gallagher and the bassist John Hébert.
(Chinen) ARI HOENIG (Monday) Mr. Hoenig, an irrepressibly kinetic drummer, celebrates the release of his album "Bert's Playground" (Dreyfus) with a quicksilver postbop band featuring Will Vinson on alto saxophone, Matt Penman on bass and Jonathan Kreisberg on guitar.
For this performance, which will be broadcast on WBGO (88.3 FM) as part of "The Checkout," she shares a bill with the Cookers, an all-star hard-bop crew — its ranks include Eddie Henderson on trumpet, Billy Harper on tenor saxophone and Billy Hart on drums — celebrating the release of a vibrant new album, "Believe" (Motéma).
(Chinen) ★ Antonio Sanchez and Migration (Thursday through March 10) Mr. Sanchez, a supple dynamo of a drummer, celebrates the release of "New Life" (Cam Jazz), his ambitious but grounded third album, by regrouping the same intuitive personnel: David Binney and Donny McCaslin on saxophones, John Escreet on piano, Thana Alexa on vocals, and (in the only substitution) Orlando le Fleming on bass.
Waving flags and beating drums, they celebrated their dead - hundreds of whom are still unburied nearly 18 months after the war ended.
Anoushka Shankar on sitar and Kasiva Mutua on drums...two celebrated female musicians talk to Kim Chakanetsa about their paths to mastering instruments more traditionally played by men.
This where jazz developed from West African rhythms – slaves gathered here on Sundays, their day off, to sing, beat drums and celebrate.
The fans are not yet up to the a cappella singing in the English stadiums, but there was a faint hint of one or two samba drums to celebrate the four attack-minded Brazilian international players, two per side.
(Chinen) ON THE WAY OUT (Tuesday) In the first set of this monthly series, the Swedish drummer Peter Nilsson celebrates his birthday with the guitarist Anders Nilsson (his brother), the saxophonist Micha Attias and the bassist Lindsey Horner.
