Jun 16, 2017 10:57 AM
Team-Ups & Supergroups Power San Francisco Jazz Festival
Before the SFJAZZ Center opened in January 2013, SFJAZZ’s flagship programming was its San Francisco Jazz Festival…
Jun 16, 2017 10:57 AM
Before the SFJAZZ Center opened in January 2013, SFJAZZ’s flagship programming was its San Francisco Jazz Festival…
Jun 13, 2017 1:09 PM
The Chicago Blues Festival rarely booked blues-rock stars such as Gary Clark Jr. in its 33 previous incarnations in…
Jun 8, 2017 10:25 PM
The 22nd-annual Vision Festival concluded June 3 with a pair of multidisciplinary performances debuting music by Trio 3…
Jun 7, 2017 11:32 PM
This year’s Jacksonville Jazz Festival, newly centralized in the downtown area, marked a welcome reset for the…
Jun 1, 2017 3:03 PM
This sixth edition of Like A Jazz Machine took place over the long Memorial Day weekend (May 25–28), although in…
May 26, 2017 3:12 PM
Among other new developments at the unique cultural phenomenon that is FIMAV (Festival International Musique Actuelle…
May 23, 2017 10:59 AM
Spirituality was an enduring theme in the musical life of Alice Coltrane (1937–2007), the pianist, harpist and widow of…
May 22, 2017 11:48 AM
As Orrin Evans pointed out in the days leading up to the inaugural Philadelphia Jazz Festival April 23–30, Philly’s…
May 20, 2017 9:19 AM
Hard as it is to put a label on saxophonist Steve Coleman—an established innovator with a MacArthur “Genius”…
May 18, 2017 7:55 AM
Most jazz up-and-comers have musical mentors, but not so many of those elders serve as life coaches, too. When…