Sep 17, 2024 11:40 AM
Hyde Park Jazz Fest To Host 36-Plus Free Performances
The 18th Annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival will be held on 13 unique stages across Chicago’s Hyde Park, Kenwood and…
Harpist Brandee Younger is among the performers on the program for this year’s Hyde Park Jazz Fest in Chicago.
Sep 17, 2024 11:40 AM
The 18th Annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival will be held on 13 unique stages across Chicago’s Hyde Park, Kenwood and…
The Angel City Jazz Festival encourages metamorphosis of the genre. This year’s event will host 23 concerts.
Sep 17, 2024 11:01 AM
Now in its 17th year, the Angel City Jazz Festival will take place Oct. 11–27 at various Los Angeles venues including…
Hancock has a new project on the horizon but says he will not put it out until he’s ready.
Sep 10, 2024 12:25 PM
On April 12 of this year, Herbie Hancock turned 84. How many people do you know in their 80s who are still working full…
“It’s like my memoir as a picture painted in sound,” Lewis explains of his growing body of work.
Sep 10, 2024 12:18 PM
It has been just over a year since this writer last spoke to saxophonist and composer James Brandon Lewis for the cover…
Morgenstern, making a point while being interviewed by Monk Rowe for the Fillius Jazz Archive at Hamilton College.
Sep 10, 2024 11:56 AM
Jazz journalist, historian, and 2007 NEA Jazz Master Dan Morgenstern, whose decades of writing and other activities in…
One highlight of You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown is the complete version of “Joe Cool.”
Sep 10, 2024 11:35 AM
Just in time for tonight’s presidential debate, Lee Mendelson Film Productions has announced the release — for the…
Students jam at The New School in New York.
Sep 5, 2024 12:20 PM
The road we call jazz can take you anywhere — from your quiet hometown to the grandest stages of the world; from…
A career in music isn’t just playing onstage. These four professionals prove it, from left: Jody Espina, JodyJazz Mouthpieces; publicist Lydia Liebman; producer and manager Matt Pierson with Samara Joy and Pasquale Grasso; Sunny Sumter, DC Jazz Festival.
Sep 5, 2024 12:08 PM
Beyond performing and teaching, what can one do with a music degree? Plenty.
From festival presentation, album…
Ryan Middagh, at piano, leads class at Vanderbilt.
Sep 5, 2024 12:04 PM
High school seniors interested in studying jazz at the collegiate level have undoubtedly begun investigating a variety…
From left, jazz educators Jay Sweet, Jason Goldman and Ingrid Jensen offer valuable audition tips.
Sep 5, 2024 11:51 AM
During the early years of jazz, studying the genre in a college classroom would have seemed absurd. The music was…
