The 2016 Newport Jazz Festival: Fabulous, Rain or Shine
The 2016 Newport Jazz Festival, presented by Natixis Global Asset Management, took place July 29 –31. Sometimes at Newport, you get gorgeous weather, other times you experience torrential downpours....
The “Nearness” of Joshua Redman and Brad Mehldau at the Dakota, September 25-26
“…camaraderie, empathy, chemistry, commonality, a quarter century of artistic collaboration and friendship” — Joshua Redman “…among the most potent and influential jazz instrumentalists of their #8221; –Ottawa Citizen About...
Jazz Women All Stars at the Dakota, September 24
“We have so many gifted women who are singers and musicians in the Twin Cities that this could be the start of something big! ” — Patty Peterson...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, September 23-29
What a jazzy week we have in the Twin Cities! Some pretty amazing talents coming into town, including Brad Mehldau, Joshua Redman and Pat Metheny, and the always-amazing talents...
Double Dose of Veterans — Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog with What Would Monk Do and Merciless Ghost
It’s a extra special line-up for this weekend’s Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog, as the Artist-Quarter-born What Would Monk Do fills the prime time slot, following Merciless...
SFJAZZ Opens Fifth Season: Can Great Guitarists Lead Jazz Back Into Popular Culture?
It has been some time since jazz was at its height of popularity. There was Thelonious Monk on the cover of Time magazine. College campuses featured jazz performances that...
Joshua Redman and Brad Mehldau, “Nearness” (Nonesuch, 2016)
More than twenty years ago, Duke DuBois, the legendary promotional lion for Verve and GRP records, would service gleeful public radio programmers like myself with scads of beautifully...
The Bad Plus: “It’s Hard” (Okeh, 2016)
If the arc of your career is perpetually, well, arced, is it possible to come full circle? Before you answer, consider this: Twin Cities-bred jazz trio, The Bad...
Dianne Reeves Lights Up the Night at SummerStage
The 2016 SummerStage Festival continued a dazzling season of free jazz concerts on July 27, when acclaimed vocalist Dianne Reeves performed in New York City’s Queensbridge Park. Dianne Reeves...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, September 9-15
Nights are getting cooler, and perhaps the jazz is getting warmer, if this week is any indication! Most of the heat comes from such local stars as Ginger Commodore,...
The 2016 Newport Jazz Festival: Fabulous, Rain or Shine
The “Nearness” of Joshua Redman and Brad Mehldau at the Dakota, September 25-26
Jazz Women All Stars at the Dakota, September 24
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, September 23-29
Double Dose of Veterans — Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog with What Would Monk Do and Merciless Ghost
SFJAZZ Opens Fifth Season: Can Great Guitarists Lead Jazz Back Into Popular Culture?
Joshua Redman and Brad Mehldau, “Nearness” (Nonesuch, 2016)
The Bad Plus: “It’s Hard” (Okeh, 2016)
Dianne Reeves Lights Up the Night at SummerStage
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, September 9-15
Jeff Hamilton Organ Trio at Sunset Jazz Newport
2016 Montreal Jazz Festival, Part Two: Music Beyond the Festival
The 2016 Festival International de Jazz de Montréal (Part 1) – Canada’s Musical Gift to the World!
2016 Iowa City Jazz Festival: Another Weekend Blessed by the Jazz Gods
Two From Blue Note: Nels Cline (Lovers) and Kandace Springs (Soul Eyes)
James Morrison Band at Sunset Jazz at Newport
Review: Pippi Ardennia Leads Women of Jazz /PipJazz All Stars at The Bedlam
Coming Home to Detroit: The 37th Annual Detroit Jazz Festival, September 2-5
August Big Band Scene
Chamber Music America Awards Nine Grants for “New Jazz Works”
SFJAZZ Presents a Banquet of Singers of The Great American Songbook
The 2016 Litchfield Jazz Festival – Coming August 6 & 7!
SummerStage Continues in NYC!
Powerful Pianists Pay Tribute to McCoy Tyner in San Francisco
2016 Newport Jazz Festival, Coming July 29-31
2016 Twin Cities Jazz Festival: Three Days of Jazz Glory in St. Paul
July Big Band Events: 41 Performances by 29 Big Bands at 25 Venues
Betsy and Tacy, Maud and Maud: Maud Hixson and Rick Carlson Release “Listening For Your Song”
A CD Debut, A Vibrant Musical Experience: We’ll Be Seeing (and Hearing) Katia Cardenas
SummerStage – Free Jazz in New York City!
Billy Hart x 4: Jazz Heaven at the 18th Healdsburg Jazz Festival
“Sing Me Home”, Silk Road! (Sony Masterworks, 2016)
Matt Wilson Remembers Felicia With “Beginning of a Memory” (Palmetto, 2016)
Five Days in New York: Six Gigs, Five Venues
Dave King Trucking Company , “Surrounded By The Night” (Sunnyside, 2016)
