Sep 8, 2026 12:37 PM
SML Delivers Serious Spontaneous Music Live
In 2016, guitarist Jeff Parker began a weekly gig on Monday nights at ETA, a newly opened cocktail bar in Los…
SML, from left, Booker Stardrum, Josh Johnson, Jeremiah Chiu, Anna Butterss and Greg Uhlmann.
Sep 8, 2026 12:37 PM
In 2016, guitarist Jeff Parker began a weekly gig on Monday nights at ETA, a newly opened cocktail bar in Los…
Ron Carter Foursight Quartet will perform on Monterey’s Ray Drummond West End Stage the evening of Sept. 25.
Sep 8, 2026 12:22 PM
The Monterey Jazz Festival celebrates its 69th year at the Monterey Fairgrounds Sept. 25–27 with a blockbuster lineup…
Kurt Elling, Katherine Russell and Emmet Cohen (host on the 2027 Jazz Cruise) share a laugh at sea.
Sep 8, 2026 11:52 AM
It began in 2001. A travel agent named Anita E. Berry had been booking clients on “partial” jazz cruises that took…
Wilson’s ability to connect to audiences helped her to win two Grammy awards and multiple other accolades. She was named an NEA Jazz Master in 2022.
Sep 3, 2026 10:44 AM
Cassandra Wilson, a singer, songwriter and producer who was one of the most acclaimed and successful jazz vocalists of…
“I wanted it to be bare,” says Zaccai Curtis of his new album. “I didn’t want to have a ton of overdubs.”
Sep 1, 2026 1:41 PM
Not so long ago, Zaccai Curtis would take long drives through southern New England. COVID had raised the rigor of his…
Marshall Allen, left, and bassist/producer Jamaaladeen Tacuma in front of the Sun Ra House (aka the Arkestral Institute of Sun Ra) in Philadelphia.
Sep 1, 2026 1:35 PM
Throughout 2026 the jazz community has commemorated a number of centennials for giants of the music who have passed, in…
Saxophonist Anna Webber shares the front line with trumpeter Adam O’Farrill during a performance by Shimmer Wince at Jazz em Agosto.
Sep 1, 2026 1:27 PM
Thanks to the generous support of Lisbon’s Gulbenkian Foundation, a venerable cultural organization that contains an…
“One day, it just hit me — I wanted to record an album,” said clarinetist Harry Skoler, 18 months after a medical emergency sidetracked his music career.
Sep 1, 2026 1:03 PM
In January 2018, shortly after Harry Skoler was appointed interim chair of the Woodwinds Department at Boston’s…
Bertoncini was a specialist and advocate for the nylon-string acoustic guitar, turning down high-profile opportunities that were unsuited to the sound and techniques that he used with that instrument.
Sep 1, 2026 11:06 AM
Gene Bertoncini, an esteemed jazz guitarist, composer, arranger and educator, died Aug. 29 at the Lillian Booth Actors…
Seamus Blake has taken a deep dive into the music of Eddie Harris. “The more that I listened to him, the more I appreciated and recognized the diversity of his kind of talent.”
Aug 25, 2026 12:42 PM
The London-born, Vancouver-raised Seamus Blake, a role model for a generation of aspiring tenor sax players in Canada,…
