Charisa The Violin Diva In First Sunday Blues And Blessings At Mt Zion Ame Millburn NJ on January 4. Posted in “Performance / Tour” column. Published: December 25, 2025 @ All About Jazz ...

Few groups shaped modern jazz like Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Formed in the 1950s, the Messengers became the heartbeat of hard bop—soulful, blues-driven, always swinging. Blakey’s thunderous ...

Starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson, "Blue" is about Milwaukee couple Mike and Claire Sardina, from Neil Diamond tribute act Lightning & Thunder.

Led by Grammy-winning Terell Stafford, the ensemble took a long-awaited trip to Tokyo last spring, wowing the audience at a ...

Buzz words and fads aside, 2025 was an underwhelming year in popular music. Albums that morphed into cultural movements like ...

Showing out 1 - The Bug - Bristol Simple Things Festival, 08/11/25 It’s not exactly a hometown show for Kevin Martin, whose experiments fusing the punkier, more industrial end of elec ...

As both a music critic and a seasonal fanatic who writes my own Christmas-themed newsletter, here are a half dozen essentials.

Memphis, Tennessee stands as a musical mecca where legends were born, where blues wail from doorways after dark, and where the soundtrack of American history plays on repeat through streets steeped in ...

SML was born out of that documentation—out of the work that Parker, Butterss, Bellerose, and Johnson had put into ETA for a ...

Scientific studies claim that modern music has become simpler than ever before, both lyrically and musically. But are they ...

While music-loving tourists don't necessarily flock to Frenchmen Street to hear modern jazz, if they're lucky and curious ...

Massa, executive director and founder of Improvise Arts , said A Holiday Collage has become an annual tradition rooted in his ...