Jackie Ryan/Rickey Woodard Quintet at Sunset Jazz at Newport
Superb vocalist Jackie Ryan gave a splendid performance at Sunset Jazz Newport in Marriott’s Rose Gardens on August 9th. The weather was once again perfect. Ryan and saxophonist Rickey...
R.I.P. John Abercrombie (1944-2017)
[Press Release] “To my mind John was his generation’s Jim Hall. His playing was always oriented around interplay with others, harmonic richness and flexibility, and tended more towards understatement...
2017 Detroit Jazz Festival Features Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Kamasi Washington, Tribute to Michael Brecker — September 1-4
Labor Day Weekend in Detroit has a long tradition of community, hope, and of course the best jazz in the world, with an estimated quarter of a million...
CD Reviews: New Orleans Flotilla, Crooner Abuse, and Hands Across the Baltic/Seine
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2017 Montreal Jazz Festival: An Embarrassment of Riches!
The 2017 Montreal Jazz Festival, officially Le Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, hosted more than 500 concerts (two-thirds of them free!) featuring some of jazz’s biggest names in...
Ken Peplowski Quartet with Sue Raney at Sunset Jazz at Newport
Kicking off the 8th Annual Sunset Jazz at Newport series on July 12th was the Ken Peplowski Quartet with special guest vocalist, Sue Raney. Peplowski plays tenor sax and...
Pamela Rose Brings “Blues Is a Woman” to Custom Made Theater in San Francisco, August 3-27
Pamela Rose has had a long career as a singer and band leader in the San Francisco Bay Area. But this year she is producing a special show at...
Various Artists: “The Passion Of Charlie Parker” (Impulse, 2017)
I’ll be honest, when I pulled this one out of the padded envelope, I thought: “It’s the answer to a musical question nobody asked.” Vocalese tributes to instrumental lions...
Teri Roiger’s “Ghost of Yesterday: Shades of Lady Day” (2017, Dot Time Records)
A steady if under-rated presence on the modern jazz vocal scene, Teri Roiger most recently interpreted one of her strongest muses, Abbey Lincoln (Dear Abbey, Inner Circle Music, 2013)....
“She Feels It”: An Interview With Claudia Villela
“Brazilian-born genius with a blistering #8221; — Jazz Times Recently I had the opportunity to interview vocalist/composer Claudia Villela, born in Rio de Janeiro and based in Calfornia for...
Glenn Cashman’s Southland Nonet at Muckenthaler 12th Annual Jazz Fest
Glenn Cashman is a prominent tenor and alto saxophonist, composer, arranger, organist, and educator. He is a bi-coastal musician and has been teaching at Colgate University in Hamilton, New...
2017 Newport Jazz Festival – Coming August 4-6
From August 4 to 6, 2017, the Newport Jazz Festival, presented by Natixis Global Asset Management, will host a fabulous line-up, which is no surprise, considering the festival’s rich...
Iowa City Jazz Festival This Weekend, June 30-July 2
Ed note: Portions of this article are taken from artist bios posted on the festival website Now in its 27th year, the Iowa City Jazz Festival (June 30-July 2)...
Creative Spirit, Educator, Jazz Pianist Geri Allen, 1957-2017
© Andrea Canter “One of the most brilliant, creative artists of our time…” – Christian McBride “Perhaps more than any other pianist, Ms. Allen’s style — harmonically refracted and...
Keystone Korner’s 45th Anniversary to be Celebrated in Northern California, July 7-8
Legendary jazz club owner and new NEA Jazz Master Todd Barkan will be making a quick run through Northern California with three concerts in early July celebrating the 45th...
Four Women: Nina, Lena, Abbey, and Billie –On Stage at Kingsborough
On Saturday May 6, 2017, the On Stage at Kingsborough series presented a stellar show, Four Women: Nina, Lena, Abbey, & Billie, starring exciting chanteuse Natalie Douglas, at the...
Holly Hofmann/Mike Wofford Quartet With John Clayton and Jeff Hamilton at the Muckenthaler Jazz Festival
A great assemblage of jazz musicians appeared at Muckenthaler’s 12th Annual Jazz Festival in Fullerton, CA on Thursday, June 1, 2017. There was no doubt these stellar musicians–the Holly...
Hudson at SFJAZZ Creates a Night to Remember
It is fitting that the new collective band Hudson kicked off their tour and CD celebration in San Francisco at SF JAZZ. The City by the Bay has always...
The 2017 Festival International de Jazz de Montréal – Coming June 28-July 8
One of the world’s largest and best-known jazz festivals, the Montreal Jazz Festival, officially known as Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, will be hosting the 38th edition from...
Newark-Born Saxophonist Wayne Shorter Honored at NJPAC
From April 20 to 23, 2017, Newark’s New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) held Wayne Shorter Weekend in tribute to one of Newark’s own, iconic saxophonist/composer Wayne Shorter. This...