The true jazz experience happens onstage in front of an audience—our concert and festival reviewers take you there.
Among the many physical, spiritual, and institutional losses related to the still-ongoing pandemic is that of Los Angeles’ renowned Playboy Jazz Festival (PJF) at the … Read More “Jazz Returns to the Hollywood Bowl”
It’s difficult to imagine what the stage and the audience would have looked like at Gaillard Center in Charleston, South Carolina, if Rhiannon Giddens’ new … Read More “The Spoleto Festival USA Roars Back”
“It’s time to imagine a place where we can come together,” Danilo Pérez said from the hallowed stage of Washington, D.C.’s historic Sixth & I … Read More “Danilo Pérez’s Global Jazz Messengers in Washington, D.C.”
At the Zeiders American Dream Theater in Virginia Beach, Va., between April 8 and 10, the Vocal Jazz Summit convened in person for the first … Read More “Vocal Jazz Summit Debuts in Virginia Beach”
The Big Ears Festival returned to Knoxville in a big way in late March, drawing an estimated 30,000 music enthusiasts from across the U.S. and … Read More “The Big Ears Festival: Back to Live Action in Knoxville”
Let’s get this out of the way: The Savannah Music Festival is not a jazz festival. Held over the course of 17 days in late … Read More “Jazz Lives at the Savannah Music Festival”
They’re two of the biggest stars in the current jazz firmament. They both developed their chops in prestigious high-school and college performing arts programs. They’re … Read More “Norah Jones and Christian McBride Perform Together for the First Time”
Wayne Shorter and Esperanza Spalding’s opera …(Iphigenia) begins with a woman dropping dead. Even in opera’s greatest tragedies the bodies don’t usually start piling up … Read More “Wayne Shorter and Esperanza Spalding’s …(Iphigenia) in Washington”
John Gilbreath, executive director of Earshot Jazz, walked to the microphone on opening night to introduce the first concert of the 33rd Earshot Jazz Festival. … Read More “The 33rd Earshot Jazz Festival in Seattle”
