A New Beat, crafted by the multi-Grammy award-winning drummer Ulysses Owens Jr. and his Generation Y outfit, materializes as a vivid emblem of jazz's evolving dynamics. This album, an amalgamation of ...

Dec. 4-7. 7PM and 9PM. $25-$55. Drummer and bandleader Ulysses Owens Jr. has played with jazz luminaries like Christian McBride and Kurt Elling, but he also leads a big band. That group plays richly ...

Sitting in the studio with his band, Generation Y, Owens Jr. listened as Nirvana’s “Heart Shaped Box” filled their headsets. He had been tasked with covering the song by producers at the online music ...

When Ulysses Owens Jr. first arrived in Aspen, to study for a summer session with the JAS Academy in 2002, the 19-year-old was an ambitious and extraordinarily talented young jazz drummer. It was that ...

“Well, it all started with my mother, who was the choir director at our church. She used to take me to church with her and sat me next to the drummer in rehearsal so she could keep an eye on me. I was ...

There's still no word on whether the city's Jacksonville Jazz Festival will happen this year, but a local jazz educator is planning a jazz fest of his own. He said the headliner won't bring their own ...

The rhythms presented on award-winning drummer Ulysses Owens, Jr.'s latest album are not exactly A New Beat, as they have been heard in various configurations for at least eighty years or more, but ...