Jul 9, 2024 10:55 AM
Johnny Hoy & the Bluefish: Devoted to the Classics
It’s a typical Wednesday night in January at The Ritz Café in Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard, seven miles…
“I was burning through personnel because it’s a small island, and I wasn’t easy to get along with,” Hoy said of forming a band on Martha’s Vineyard in the late 1970s.
Jul 9, 2024 10:55 AM
It’s a typical Wednesday night in January at The Ritz Café in Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard, seven miles…
From left, BDR’s Cody Davies, Tyreek Jackson and Mike LaBombard. “There’s a long history and precedent for what we do,” says drummer/bandleader Joe Pignato.
Jul 9, 2024 10:50 AM
In a prior lifetime, back in the 1990s, Joe Pignato was a dedicated record company guy, first as the U.S. rep for Kurt…
The Year of Alice initiative, celebrating the life work of Alice Coltrane, runs from 2024 to 2025.
Jul 2, 2024 1:52 PM
The John & Alice Coltrane Home and the Coltrane Family, in partnership with Impulse! Records, Detroit Jazz Festival,…
Dave and son Chris Brubeck with broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite in a historic photo from the archive.
Jul 2, 2024 12:46 PM
July 1 was the 65th anniversary of the biggest-selling jazz song of all time, “Take Five,” recorded that day in…
With her new crowdfunded release From Here, Allgood is hitting the big leagues.
Jun 25, 2024 12:09 PM
Jazz singers are a rarified breed. Only a handful actually make it and sustain a career with any degree of national or…
More than 250 artists will be featured over the course of this summer’s Montclair Jazz Festival.
Jun 25, 2024 12:00 PM
Jazz House Kids has announced the artist lineup and the slate of events for the summer-long 15th Anniversary of the…
“Variety is essential,” says Taylor Eigsti. “It both creates new landscapes and puts you in closer touch with the present moment.”
Jun 18, 2024 11:57 AM
It’s early March in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a local, classically trained instrumentalist is astonished as she…
“Georgian folk music is considered one of the world’s most advanced polyphonic folk music styles,” Giorgi Mikadze says.
Jun 18, 2024 11:47 AM
Giorgi Mikadze, a virtuosic pianist and composer, possesses an extraordinary talent shaped by his heritage and diverse…
Christopher Zuar with his wife/collaborator, Anne Beal.
Jun 18, 2024 11:39 AM
Tending the soil of large ensemble jazz culture can be a challenging, labor-intensive and sometimes thankless job. The…
“I don’t want to stop at just playing it as it already was; we have to do something different,” Grace Kelly said of reinterpreting classic movie themes with strings.
Jun 11, 2024 12:10 PM
Growing up near Boston, 31-year-old saxophonist-singer-songwriter Grace Kelly had a Friday night tradition with her…
