Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater have announced jazz programming running from August 14 - August 27, celebrating Charlie Parker's birthday all month long! Performers appearing at Birdland Jazz ...

Upon hearing drummer Cindy Blackman Santana as a bandleader live at Birdland — where she is appearing through Saturday — two thoughts immediately sprang to mind. The first is that she is such a ...

Drummer Cindy Blackman Santana can be heard on VW commercials and seen and heard on ESPN’s Monday Night Football opening segment with Chris Stapleton and Snoop Dogg. *“I have multiple things going on ...

As the fiery drummer in Santana since 2016 and in Lenny Kravitz’s band from 1993 to 2007, Cindy Blackman Santana has done multiple world tours and performed in some of San Diego’s largest outdoor and ...

On the second of two sold-out nights at Miner Auditorium, Cindy Blackman Santana opened with a brief welcome—"Blue Whale"—and nothing more. The band turned toward the center, eyes on her for the first ...

World-renowned drummer and bandleader Cindy Blackman Santana will hit the road this year with her highly acclaimed and vibrant ensemble the Cindy Blackman Santana Band for multiple shows in ...

Beginning this week, virtuoso jazz-rock drummer Cindy Blackman will perform a string of East coast dates with her band, Another Lifetime. The itinerary kicks off with four nights of shows—Thursday, ...

Legendary drummer Cindy Blackman Santana speaks with Kyle Meredith about Give the Drummer Some, an album that finds her singing lead for the first time. Together, they discuss the ways to make fun ...

“We have quite a few originals and a few works by other people like Wayne Shorter that we’ve kind of revamped, so they sound a little different, which is great, we put a new spin on them,” Blackman ...

Cindy Blackman Santana has been paying tribute to late great drummer Tony Williams for years. She released a full-on homage to the Tony Williams Lifetime jazz-fusion band in 2010 called “Another ...