September 2021

The Northampton Jazz Festival, closed last fall due to COVID-19, returns this weekend, October 1-2, with a busy schedule of live entertainment, with shows at Pulaski Park, several downtown restaurants and other venues, and a final concert…

When Lady Gaga has announced her 2014 duet album with Tony Bennett, Cheek to Cheek, various explanations have been given for the existence of an album that would once have seemed unthinkable. It was a homecoming: long before Stefani…

COVID caution causes dismay, but the show goes on! In a surprising show of solidarity, the Van Williamson Trio have agreed among themselves that their highly anticipated return in concert at the Umpteenth Annual Rehoboth Beach Jazz Festival…

The new live music festival will feature emerging and established artists including Msafiri Zawose (Tanzania), Makadem (Kenya), Lily Kadima (Uganda) and Siti and The Band (Zanzibar). The others are TaraJazz (Zanzibar), Wanawake Waridi…

Lonnie smith, a Hammond B3 organ master and a leading exponent of the contagious rhythm genre known as soul jazz, died at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on Tuesday. He was 79 years old.Her manager and partner, Holly Case, said the…

Omar Kamal will perform at the Jazz at The Appel Room at Lincoln Center on Monday, October 18, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. ET.Omar Kamal has a voice that transcends borders and decades. Her honest and pure power and capacity for connection are the…

The problem. For decades, the CCP worried about overpopulation, and in 1978 told Chinese families that they could only have one child to contain the growing population size. (This was in response to Mao Zedong encouraging people to have…

Saxophonist James Brandon Lewis and cellist Chris Hoffman present an evening of duets, featuring original compositions and live improvisations. James Brandon Lewis, also a poet, will read his work and collaborate with poets Mr. Soledad…

And most of the festival's shows - with the exception of headliner Randy Brecker - are free.“I think it's an interesting and eclectic lineup. Normally we have 10 artists, this year we will have five, but they are all top notch, world class…

There can be few more intense tenors in jazz today than John Coltrane, and he conveys that intensity to his audience in the most compelling way. You have to listen, even when the sounds…