Oct 18, 2016 1:55 PM
Uppsala Guitar Festival Offers Bounty of World-Class Talent
The distant sounds of acoustic guitars floated through the air as the performances got underway on the second floor of…
Brothers Leonard (left) and Slava Grigoryan perform at the Uppsala International Guitar Festival in Uppsala, Sweden.
Oct 18, 2016 1:55 PM
The distant sounds of acoustic guitars floated through the air as the performances got underway on the second floor of…
Al McLean performs with the Orchestre National de Jazz de Montréal.
Oct 17, 2016 3:51 PM
Saxophonist Al McLean might be the only jazz musician in Montreal who sits in on three well-known jam sessions in town,…
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performs at the Bing Concert Hall in Stanford, California, on Sept. 30.
Oct 17, 2016 3:32 PM
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) commenced its 2016–’17 touring season with five shows in Northern…
Cécile McLorin Salvant performs at the Hot Jazz Festival in New York City on Sept. 25
Oct 17, 2016 2:38 PM
Leave it to Michael Katsobashvili, an ebullient impresario from the nation of Georgia, to keep the fires burning New…
Former First Lady Laura Bush (left), President George W. Bush, First Lady Michelle Obama and President Obama at the Sept. 24 opening ceremony in Washington, D.C.
Oct 17, 2016 2:32 PM
As part of Freedom Sounds, a weekend-long festival in Washington, D.C., that celebrated the opening of the…
Matana Roberts at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival in Chicago
Oct 17, 2016 9:56 AM
On the afternoon of Sept. 25, mulling over how to open this review as I ambled between the music stages on Midway…
Alvester Garnett (left), Charenée Wade and Camille Thurman perform at the Lake George Jazz Festival in New York on Sept. 17.
Oct 17, 2016 9:46 AM
Lake George is a scenic village in upstate New York, located about three hours north of Manhattan on the shores of the…
Trumpeters Ingrid Jensen (left), Jason Palmer, Theo Croker, Darren Barrett, Maurice Brown and Marquis Hill perform at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola on Sept. 21
Oct 17, 2016 9:41 AM
The Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT), founded by Dave Douglas in 2003, has become an extensive, ambitious…
Shemekia Copeland (left) with Fifth Star honoree Buddy Guy in Chicago on Sept. 14.
Oct 17, 2016 9:38 AM
Chicago blues king Buddy Guy has a National Medal of Arts, a Kennedy Center Honors award, a truckload of Grammy and…
Jacob Collier performs at the Monterey Jazz Festival in Monterey, California, on Sept. 18.
Oct 10, 2016 4:12 PM
Youth has never been wasted or neglected at the Monterey Jazz Festival—a result, no doubt, of its year-round education…
