The true jazz experience happens onstage in front of an audience—our concert and festival reviewers take you there.
A jam-packed weekend opened the 40th edition of the Montreal International Jazz Festival, with inspiring performances by luminaries and rising stars such as pianists Chucho Valdés … Read More “Live Review: 2019 Montreal Jazz Festival, Week 2”
One way to define a music festival: the sum of its memorable moments. There were plenty of those moments to savor during the first four … Read More “Live Review: 2019 Montreal Jazz Festival, Weekend 1”
The 15th annual DC Jazz Festival marked the full maturation of an event that began in 2004 as the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival; it’s been … Read More “Live Review: DC Jazz Festival 2019”
That opening night of the 24th edition of the New York City-born and bred Vision Festival—the premier left-field summit where avant-garde jazz, dance, poetry, and … Read More “Live Review: Andrew Cyrille Night at the Vision Festival”
Every year the Playboy Jazz Festival, held at the 19,000-capacity Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, is a roll of the dice in regards to mainstream … Read More “Live Review: 2019 Playboy Jazz Festival”
There are any number of Northern California jazz festivals that have been around longer than the one in Healdsburg, but none save the granddaddy of … Read More “Concert Review: Carla Bley and Ethan Iverson at the Healdsburg Jazz Festival”
There had never been anything like it before at Spoleto Festival USA—four consecutive days of 100-degree heat—and nothing like it before in Charleston, S.C., where … Read More “Live Review: Spoleto Festival USA 2019”
There is an inherent risk with a solo jazz guitar concert that rather than experiencing a tour of a verdant garden, with life flowing in … Read More “Concert Review: Pat Metheny Solo at Rockport Music”
If you’re smart, when you attend the Atlanta Jazz Festival in 93-degree heat and unrelenting sun with zero breeze, you do what a lot of … Read More “Live Review: Atlanta Jazz Festival 2019”
This year it made perfect sense for the Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival to honor pianist, composer, and educator Geri Allen, who performed at the … Read More “Live Review: Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival Opening Night”
