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The Salt Lake Tribune reports three Utah Jazz fans were ejected and banned indefinitely from the Vivint Arena following an incident involving the family of Memphis Grizzlies star Ja Morant during Game 2 Wednesday night.  “The Utah Jazz have zero tolerance for offensive or disruptive behavior. An incident occurred last night involving a verbal altercation during Game 2. […]

Tony Bennett and his family announced Monday that he has been living with Alzheimer’s disease for the past four years. In an extensive story published by AARP magazine, the 94-year-old said he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2016. “There’s a lot about him that I miss,” his wife Susan Crow said. “Because he’s not the old Tony […]

Fendi has joined forces with the Juilliard Jazz Program for its latest installment of Anima Mundi, a music series that has featured performances in Rome, Shanghai, Tokyo, and Seoul. For this episode, the Italian fashion house brought together six Julliard students who had not been face-to-face since the New York City lockdowns began. The featured musicians are saxophonist […]

Rudy Gobert was one of the NBA’s stars to cash out this summer when he signed a five-year $205 million contract extension. For this type of money, Shaquille O’Neal expects more production from the Jazz big man.  During a recent appearance on the All Things Covered podcast, Shaq spoke about Gobert and his deal. “I’m not gonna hate, […]

Rudy Gobert was one of the NBA’s stars to cash out this summer when he signed a five-year $205 million contract extension. For this type of money, Shaquille O’Neal expects more production from the Jazz big man.  During a recent appearance on the All Things Covered podcast, Shaq spoke about Gobert and his deal. “I’m not gonna hate, […]

The battle over Cab Calloway’s former home has come to an end. On Saturday, the City of Baltimore demolished a rowhouse where the jazz legend had lived as a teenager, marking a huge blow to preservationists and some members of Calloway’s family. The Baltimore Sun reports activists and community members attempted to protect the home through a historical landmark […]

Much has been made of the long-standing cultural relationship between Canada and the UK, and that goes double for London and Toronto. Both locations share the deep-seated influences of the Caribbean diaspora and with that comes a unique musical language and a lineage of music scenes continuously crossing back and forth. Newly-minted Toronto collective No Tourists […]

After announcing the new album back in June with “One More Time”, followed by subsequent singles “Hold On” and “Mr. Wu”, Kamaal Williams has now unveiled his latest full-length, Wu Hen. With an allusion to his other alias, Henry Wu, in the title, Wu Hen plays out like his most personal to date, pulling together all the different […]

This Friday, July 24, New York-based producer and musician Atropolis will release his third full-length album, Time Of Sine, a project he first announced alongside the release of previous single “From Greece With Love” featuring Yiannis Mandas. Today he returns with the latest single, “Nostalgia On The N Train”, a dreamy piece of electronica that evokes that […]

Mammal Hands — aka saxophonist Jordan Smart, pianist Nick Smart and drummer and tabla player Jesse Barrett — first emerged as a band from their roots in Norwich in 2012. With three albums already under their collective belt and a healthy fanbase thanks to their hypnotising jazz sound and sweat-soaked live shows, brothers Jordan and Nick and their friend […]