Oct 7, 2025 11:31 AM
Standout Performances at Monterey Make for Memorable Moments
Arguably the top jazz festival taking place on the West Coast and certainly one of the music’s major annual events,…
Nnenna Freelon was heard at the peak of her powers during this year’s Monterey Jazz Festival.
Oct 7, 2025 11:31 AM
Arguably the top jazz festival taking place on the West Coast and certainly one of the music’s major annual events,…
Hamid Drake takes to the frame drum at Chicago’s Logan Center during this year’s Hyde Park Jazz Festival.
Oct 7, 2025 11:23 AM
In May, Hyde Park Jazz Festival Executive and Artistic Director Kate Dumbleton learned she’d lost a $30,000 grant…
Kandace Springs channeled Shirley Horn’s deliberate phrasing and sublime self-accompaniment during her set at this year’s Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival.
Sep 30, 2025 12:28 PM
Janis Burley, the Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival’s founder and artistic director, did not, as might be…
“My music is about the human condition,” said Darius Jones in introducing his song “No More My Lord” at the inaugural Sound & Gravity Festival.
Sep 30, 2025 11:56 AM
Chicago is notorious for its meteorological extremes, but the gods of weather gifted the city five straight days of…
Maria Schneider leads her orchestra through a thrilling set at this year’s Detroit Jazz Festival.
Sep 23, 2025 11:01 AM
Sometimes words have more than one meaning, as in the lore about free-jazz. It usually surrounds the early work of…
Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt performed new music from his latest album, Woven, with vibraphonist Jalen Baker, drummer Jared Spears, bassist Leighton Harrell and guitarist Misha Mendelenko.
Sep 23, 2025 10:55 AM
It’s hard to imagine a more beautiful setting for an outdoor jazz festival than what Lake George, located in the…
Marcus Miller and band hold down the main stage at District Pier during this year’s DC Jazz Festival.
Sep 16, 2025 11:24 AM
The DC Jazz Festival is now of legal drinking age. This year’s edition, running Aug. 27–31, was the 21st. Not the…
Esperanza Spalding closed an audacious Chicago Jazz Festival set with “Endangered Species.”
Sep 9, 2025 11:50 AM
The 45th Chicago Jazz Festival kicked off its headline events with two erudite individuals, Esperanza Spalding and…
This year’s Jazz em Agosto set by the Darius Jones Trio captured the titular alto saxophonist at his most ferocious.
Aug 26, 2025 1:31 PM
The organizers of Lisbon, Portugal’s Jazz em Agosto Festival assume its audience is thoughtful and independent. Over…
Kismet performs at this year’s Ystad Jazz Festival in Sweden.
Aug 19, 2025 12:36 PM
Jazz festival culture, that ever-expanding and international phenomenon, can serve many masters and functions. In…
