Mears Park is the epicenter of the Twin Cities Jazz Festival, June 20-21 Jazz fans and the jazz-curious have three opportunities to sample top talents from the local and international scene in the ...

At the 2024 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, clarinetist and bandleader Doreen Ketchens finished her set in the Economy Hall tent and announced her next gig: “We’ll be back on the street ...

Jazz Journalists Association “Jazz Hero Twin Cities” –Kenny Horst (photo: Andrea Canter) [Note: This article is slightly revised from the original published at www. pleasedandflipped.com. Thanks to ...

Renowned Twin Cities jazz ensemble the Larry McDonough Quintet pays tribute to the music of Miles Davis, performing selections from the Grammy-winning soundtrack to the 2015 film, Miles Ahead.

In Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts is a 3-LP album that contains previously unreleased recordings from two 1977 concerts by Charles Mingus’ last band. The band was a quintet featuring Ricky Ford ...

Epilogue/Prologue: Highlights of 2024, , Great Expectations for 2025 in Twin Cities Jazz ...

The 2023 TD James Moody Jazz Festival took place from November 3 to 19 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) and a couple of other locations in Newark, NJ. This Festival has become ...

My introduction to B.B. King was Live at Cook County Jail in 1971 and I was thrilled with his sound – the clarity of tone, the vibrato, the way he bent notes. His playing had the precision of a ...

Hammond B3 organ wiz Pat Bianchi is coming to the Twin Cities on November 14th at Crooners Supper Club with a killer trio featuring Joey DeFrancesco alums, guitarist Paul Bollenback and drummer Byron ...

Aaron Paige, Artistic Director of JazzFest White Plains and Director of Folk Arts at ArtsWestchester, welcomed the crowd to the first event of the 2023 JazzFest White Plains. Paige spoke about the ...

The 2023 Charlie Parker Jazz Festival (CPJF) took place from August 20 to 27 throughout New York City. The FREE activities included a community cookout with bassist Endea Owens; Jazz In the Garden: ...

In many ways, the Twin Cities Jazz Festival continues in 2024 as it has now for 25 years. Getting officially underway in St Paul’s Mears Park and beyond on Friday, June 21, we’ll hear international ...