2016 Newport Jazz Festival, Coming July 29-31
The 2016 Newport Jazz Festival, presented by Natixis Global Management, will take place July 29 – 31. In addition to the Friday evening show at the International Tennis Hall...
SummerStage – Free Jazz in New York City!
Hosting concerts throughout New York City since 1986, SummerStage is the largest free performing arts festival in the city! The SummerStage website says, “By presenting artists and genres that...
Billy Hart x 4: Jazz Heaven at the 18th Healdsburg Jazz Festival
“Freedom, discipline, daring, passion, swing, broken rhythm, orchestral textures, interactive sparring, shocking dynamics, astounding creativity and authority. Want to know what jazz is really about? Listen to Billy #8221;...
Bill Charlap Trio at Catalina’s
Radiant and amazing pianist Bill Charlap has been playing and producing the very best trio jazz music for many years. His trio with bassist Peter Washington and drummer Kenny...
2016 Montreal Jazz Fest Preview — Coming June 29-July 9
One of the largest and most renowned festivals in the world, the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal will take place from June 29 to July 9, 2016...
18th Annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival, June 3-12
“Probably the best small jazz festival in the country, if not the world.”—San Francisco Chronicle It’s no longer a well-kept secret that the northern California town of Healdsburg...
Five Days in New York: Six Gigs, Five Venues
In the past fifteen years, I have vowed to get to the epicenter of jazz, New York City, every year. It’s not a vow I have been able to...
International Jazz Day, April 30: From the White House to Your House!
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) again sponsors International Jazz Day on April 30, a series of celebrations around the world that pay tribute to America’s...
Roberta Gambarini at Catalina’s Jazz Club
Roberta Gambarini is one of the premier jazz vocalists of our time. She has performed many places world-wide in the last few years and constantly makes her mark with...
April Is Jazz Appreciation Month
Events honoring jazz are planned throughout the in April, designated Jazz Appreciation Month by the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian in 2002. Intended to celebrate...
Women Jazz Artists Blossom in Brilliant Concerts
There is no question that there are great women players in jazz. And a recent series of shows in the Bay Area not only emphasized this fact, but left...
Vocalist Ernestine Anderson, 1928-2016
From ballads to blues to swing, in small ensemble or fronting a big band, Ernestine Anderson engaged audiences worldwide with her soulful voice for much of her 87 years....
16th Annual Newport Beach Jazz Party
If I was thinking of words to describe Newport Beach Jazz Parties, they would certainly include enticing and exhilarating. The four-day celebration in Newport Beach, CA, held Thursday to...
Ron Carter Appointed Artist-in-Residence for the 2016 Detroit Jazz Festival
The Detroit Jazz Festival, the world’s largest free jazz festival, announced that legendary bassist, cellist, composer and Detroit native Ron Carter will be its 2016 Artist-in-Residence. An alum of...
The Divine and the Sublime: Kamasi Washington, Fred Hersch in San Francisco
There is an old axiom in music: Jazz is “the sound of surprise.” That surprise certainly rang true for this listener at two recent shows in San Francisco. The...
And the Grammy Goes to… Jazz Artists
The 58th Grammy Awards are history, and for nominees from the world of jazz, in jazz and other categories, it was a pretty good year. Perhaps the biggest...
A Tale of Two Festivals: Twin Cities, Iowa City Hit All the Right Notes in 2015
It was the best of times for devotees of jazz. It was a time for bebop and a time for inventive improvisation, a chance to hear swing and even...
Jazz Festival Survivors: We Chose Detroit
The banners draping the Carhartt Amphitheater and Hart Plaza gateways read “Choose #8221; Every Labor Day weekend for the past eight years, I have done just that. I’ve chosen...
“Satchmo at the Waldorf”: An Outrageous and Brilliant One-Man Tour de Force
Jazz music and its stories can now appear in any venue. You might find a concert in a museum, park, subway station, or at your local junior high school....
2015 Jazz Fest Round-Up: From Montreal to Wall Street
There are many jazz festivals each year, and some of the best take place in the US Northeast and Canada. Here are some highlights from 2015. The 2015 Festival...