We take a look ahead at upcoming jazz events and festivals.
Like so many jazz festivals this year, New York’s avant-garde Vision Festival was canceled due to the pandemic. But its organizers, Arts for Art, didn’t … Read More “NYC Hosts a Different Kind of Vision Festival”
As previously reported in JazzTimes, the National Endowment for the Arts, in collaboration with SFJAZZ, is hosting a special online-only concert on Thursday, August 20, … Read More “Watch the 2020 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert This Thursday”
UPDATE 4/10/20 1:55 PM: The listening session will only happen live on Zoom due to technical issues with Facebook. Thanks! As the old saying goes, … Read More “Tune Into a Live Listening Session with Shabaka Hutchings”
Arts For Art (AFA), a New York City-based nonprofit organization for the promotion and advancement of avant-garde jazz, celebrates its 25th year of programming with … Read More “Sun Ra Arkestra, William Parker Bring “Sounds of Justice” to NYC’s Town Hall”
From January 9 to 18, New York will be the undisputed center of the jazz universe when NYC Winter Jazzfest returns for its 16th annual … Read More “2020 Winter Jazzfest Preview”
Featuring the music of Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, and Ethel Waters as well as a nine-piece band with three dancers, Harlem … Read More “Variety Show Set to Celebrate Harlem Renaissance in Northern California”
“A lot of times, I think jazz is too restricted to a style,” saxophonist and composer Joe Lovano says. “When you’re a younger player, you … Read More “Joe Lovano Gets Universal”
The sound of San Francisco-based collective Jazz Mafia has been described as a “full-size philharmonic…jamming with a classic big band during a street-corner rap battle.” … Read More “Jazz Mafia Ready to Celebrate Milestone Concert in San Francisco”
Arts for Art, in partnership with A Gathering of the Tribes, will present a special evening of performances in tribute to Poet Laureate of the … Read More “Arts for Art Will Present The Sun Ra Arkestra on September 6”
Summer is all business for jazz musicians. Airports, hotels, club stints, camp gigs —the road delivers the perks of building new audiences and visiting far-flung … Read More “Newport Jazz Festival 2019: 10 Artists Make Their Picks”
