(Jazz, New York) Michael Arenella is in his early 30s, lives in Brooklyn, and plays music from the Jazz Age with the Dreamland Orchestra. ...more...
Art News
The 2012 Newport Jazz Fest is Jack DeJohnette, and Everyone Else
May 21, 2012
(Jazz, Providence) Jazz legends don’t turn seventy every day, you know, but Jack DeJohnette’s time is coming, August 9, specifically, which is just a few days after the weekend of 3-4-5 August, when Jackie D unloads on Newport. ...more...
Michael Feinstein Brings the Songbook Back to Jersey
May 18, 2012
(Jazz, Newark) Credit the man who knows what he wants and devotes himself, with single-minded passion, to getting it. Credit the man who knows, from a very young age, that this is it, this is what I am meant to be, convention be damned. ...more...
1962 Griffith-Paret Fight Will Become a Terence Blanchard Opera
May 17, 2012
(Opera, National) Just the thought of it is enough to suck the wind out of you, considering how stark the circumstances were: on a March night in 1962, in a boxing ring in Madison Square Garden, Emile Griffith beat Benny “Kid” Paret to death. ...more...
Many Dollars Have Been Spent on Jazz Education. Now Where Are the Audiences?
May 15, 2012
(Jazz, National) The Jazz Education Network is big, and nationwide, and four years old, nearly, and they have spent many, many dollars to increase jazz education and awareness. ...more...
Kermit Ruffins Has Got Himself a Speakeasy
May 11, 2012
(Jazz, New Orleans) If you’re looking around for someone to be, you could do far, far worse than to be Kermit Ruffins, who is just about the living embodiment of the city of New Orleans. ...more...
Geri Allen Takes Over the Village Vanguard for Six Nights, Starting Tuesday
May 7, 2012
(Jazz, New York) She was there in January for a bit, with a trio that included Esperanza Spalding, but this week’s residency is all about Geri Allen, who has been a big, big player in New York jazz for about thirty years now. ...more...
Blue Note Jazz Fest is Back
April 26, 2012
(Jazz, New York) The Blue Note Jazz Festival threw its first party last June – actually, a series of parties. Actually a lot of parties, all over New York (and by “all over” I mean mostly the Blue Note jazz club, B.B. King’s blues club and the Highline Ballroom, but hey), with people like Bootsy and McCoy Tyner and Meshell Ndegeocello playing. ...more...
Wynton Marsalis, Now 50, Takes up Residency at Symphony Center
April 25, 2012
(Jazz, Chicago) Marsalis takes the Jazz at Lincoln Center to the city by the lake this weekend for three varied concerts and a Q-and-A for young people. ...more...
Rex Reed Does Ira Gershwin
April 12, 2012
(Jazz, San Francisco) Reed brings his Ira revue, “The Man That Got Away”, to Kanbar Hall at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco for the weekend, beginning Friday. ...more...
2012 Healdsburg Jazz Fest Gives It Up for Roy Haynes, Other Jazz Masters
April 3, 2012
(Jazz, San Francisco/Oakland) The 2012 Healdsburg Festival, scheduled to start June 1, has customarily packed its lineup with jazz luminaries. ...more...
Dallas Museum of Art Launches Chronological “Jazz in the Atrium”
March 21, 2012
(Art Museums, Jazz, Dallas/Ft. Worth) April’s “Jazz in the Atrium” Thursdays will be devoted to a chronological look at the development of jazz throughout the Twentieth Century, beginning with the Roaring Twenties. ...more...
Detroit Symphony Announces 2012-13 Jazz Programming
March 20, 2012
(Jazz, Classical Music, Detroit) The DSO’s 2012-13 Paradise Jazz series is remarkably strong, with Cassandra Wilson and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band among the headliners. ...more...
ELEW Brings His “Rockjazz” To Loews Philly
March 19, 2012
(Jazz, Philadelphia) Rockjazz pianist ELEW pounds the keys into submission this evening at Loews Philadelphia Hotel, starting at eight. ...more...
New Orleans Gears Up for “Jazz on the Bayou” Benefit
March 19, 2012
(Jazz, New Orleans)The event, which benefits a slew of local charities, will take place at the home of New Orleans jazz legend Ronnie Kole the weekend of March 31. ...more...
Bustan Quartet Makes Rare Stop in the Bay Area
March 15, 2012
(Classical Music, Jazz, San Francisco) The Israeli jazz/classical quartet will play twice in the Bay Area in the coming weeks, beginning March 22 at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life in Berkeley. ...more...
Newport Jazz Fest 2012 Announces Lineup
March 13, 2012
(Jazz, Providence) This year’s festival has got Pat Metheny, Jack DeJohnette and the Bad Plus slated to perform, and very little bleedover from mainstream rock and pop. ...more...
Jazz at Lincoln Center to Feature a Half-Dozen Mini Festivals
March 6, 2012
(Jazz, New York) The 2012-13 season will offer, among a lot of other goodness, programs focused on some jazz heavyweights. ...more...
Da Camera of Houston Has Ambitious Plans for Its 25th
March 5, 2012
(Jazz, Classical Music, Houston) Renowned concert venue Da Camera of Houston has a slew of remarkable offerings planned for this, its 25th season. ...more...
Jazz is the Fountain of Youth, Apparently
March 5, 2012
(Jazz, New York) Sax and penny whistle virtuoso Les Lieber is about to turn 100 and still plays the Players Club on Gramercy Park South every Friday. ...more...
An International Jazz Museum in Chicago? Maybe.
February 29, 2012
(Jazz, Chicago) More than a decade after an initial plan was aborted, a group of Chicago’s cultural and political heavyweights are trying again to establish a jazz museum. ...more...
PBS Spotlights Cab Calloway on Sunday
February 23, 2012
(Jazz, National) Anyone not feeling the Oscar hype would do well to keep “Cab Calloway: Sketches” in mind for potential Sunday night viewing. (8 ET; check local listings.) ...more...
All-Volunteer Start-up Radio Station Brings Jazz Back to Columbus’ Airwaves
February 21, 2012
(Jazz, Columbus) Jazz radio has returned to Columbus in the form of WCRX-LP, Bexley Public Radio. ...more...
Bill Frisell is All Over This Year’s Portland Jazz Festival
February 17, 2012
(Jazz, Portland) The eminent jazz guitarist is the focus of this year’s Portland Jazz Festival for two days, February 24-25, during which time he will play things “For Portland Only”. ...more...
UCO’s Jazz Lab Continues to Grow
February 13, 2012
(Jazz, Oklahoma City) As it heads into its tenth year, the University of Central Oklahoma’s Jazz Lab has become a destination for some serious performers. ...more...
