Tonight, Jazz at Lincoln Center proudly announced the high school jazz bands in the nation who took the highest honors at the prestigious 18th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band...

A celebration of Dave Brubeck’s life and music turned into an ode to joy as family, friends and fans paid tribute to the groundbreaking pianist and composer who became the best known ambassador of...

31st ANNUAL SYRACUSE JAZZ FEST
Jamesville Beach Park
July 4, 5, 6, 2013

Day One: THURSDAY, JULY 4, 2013
2:00 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.

2:00 pm ~ Gates Open,
Paradise Food Court, Constellation Wine...

The Detroit Jazz Festival "Imported from Detroit" today announced the headlining acts and 2013 Artist in Residence for the 34(th) annual Labor Day Weekend performances. Once again the Festival will...

Richie Havens died today of a heart attack at his home in Jersey City. He was 72. Mixed Bag is still one of my favorite records.

THE 20TH ISTANBUL JAZZ FESTIVAL LINEUP


ALICIA KEYS
Tuesday, 2 July, 21.00 - KüçükÇiftlik Park

The 20th Istanbul Jazz Festival welcomes the world-renowned voice of R&B and soul music,...

The Consulate General of Israel to the Midwest is presenting the first Israeli Jazz Festival in Chicago. The five-day event will run from Sunday, May 19 through Thursday, May 23 at different venues...

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12 – Milford Graves: A Lifetime of Achievement

7:30 Afro/Cuban Roots
 Milford Graves – drums
David Virelles – acoustic piano
Román Díaz – percussions (congas, batá drums, añá),...

It is with deep, deep sorrow that we announce the passing of Robert "RZ" Zildjian, our beloved founder and leader. A tireless and dynamic force within the drum industry, he inspired each one of us in...

In 1985, Stanley Kubrick was handed a book on the survival of jazz in Nazi-occupied Europe. A snapshot of a Luftwaffe officer casually posing among black, Gypsy, and Jewish musicians outside a Paris...

5795

God Bless the Child sung poorly

The Boston Phoenix will cease publication, but parent company Phoenix Media plans to continue publishing its Providence, R.I., and Portland, Me., papers. The Phoenix announced the decision in a news...

Shill!

Instead of just hyping why don't you tell us a little more about her as I think she's good.

Friday, August 2, 2013
INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME
Natalie Cole

Bill Charlap Trio with special guest Freddy Cole

Saturday, August 3, 2013
FORT ADAMS STATE PARK

Wayne Shorter's 80th...

The lineup for this summer's Saratoga Jazz Festival at SPAC is out -- and the headliners include: Tony Bennett, Buddy Guy, David Sanborn and Bob James, the McCoy Tyner Quartet with John Scofield,...

As part of a broader effort to harness the Internet to engage more jazz fans, Jazz at Lincoln Center is inviting the general public to vote online for the 2013 inductees to the Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz...

Saturday, June 15, 2013, 3:00 P.M.-11:00 P.M.
(Artist line-up, subject to change)

GEORGE DUKE with special guest JEFFREY OSBORNE

NATURALLY 7 with special guest HERBIE HANCOCK

ANGELIQUE...

Val, I didn't know. Ron Thorne just told me. So so sad. Did he come down to one of our JC hangs during Vision? If not, I still feel like I met him.
Whew...

The fourth annual Cairo Jazz Festival is to inaugurate at Al-Azhar Park in Old Cairo from 21-23 March with the famous Lebanese musician Ziad Rahbani performing at the closing ceremony of the...

Jazz artists such as Meshell Ndegeocello, Cecile McLorin Salvant, Dominick Farinacci, Jose James and Tia Fuller are set to play at this year's Atlanta Jazz Festival.

Set for May 25-27 in Piedmont...

University of the Pacific's Brubeck Institute presents the Twelfth Annual Brubeck Festival, titled Dave Brubeck Across Time, honors his legacy as a jazz giant and his Stockton, California roots. The...

The landlord of the building that housed the now-shuttered Lenox Lounge is suing the famed lounge's owner for $25 million, claiming that he swiped the jazz club's historic fixtures and decorations to...

Trumpeter /composer/musical innovator Wadada Leo Smith is seeking $17,000 to complete and premiere a new work for his highly acclaimed civil rights opus Ten Freedom Summers. The new work, entitled...