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Hartford Glides Into Summer Jazz

Hartford Glides Into Summer Jazz

As homegrown talent returns to Bushnell Park.

Jamil Ragland

9 Jul 2025 · 2 min read

25th Annual Malcolm X Jazz Festival

25th Annual Malcolm X Jazz Festival

For the twenty fifth year, Oakland got down to grooves, grub, and graffiti for Malcolm X Jazz Fest.

Frederick Noland

25 Jun 2025 · 1 min read

Sax Sits In

Sax Sits In

Everyone was with the band at Cafe 9 Saturday jazz jam.

Jisu Sheen

16 Jun 2025 · 3 min read

"Dandelion Puff" Takes It Time

"Dandelion Puff" Takes It Time

At sunset, thanks to 3 jazz musicians from 3 continents.

Jamil Ragland

15 Jun 2025 · 2 min read

Allen Dennard Arrives

Allen Dennard Arrives

Red-hot Detroit jazz trumpeter and composer returns Motor City Wine for release of album he recorded there.

Ryan Patrick Hooper

12 Jun 2025 · 2 min read

Uptown Jazz Orchestra at Yoshi's

Uptown Jazz Orchestra at Yoshi's

Delfeayo Marsalis's New Orleans-based brass ensemble celebrates the musical traditions of their city in an updated, eclectic musical gumbo.

Jeff Kaliss

21 Mar 2025 · 4 min read

Afro-Cuban Jazz Legend Gets Crowd Dancing

Afro-Cuban Jazz Legend Gets Crowd Dancing

Pianist and songwriter Chucho Valdés and band Irakere 50 bring Havana to Oakland.

Jeff Kaliss

3 Mar 2025 · 4 min read

Cécile Leads The Charge

Cécile Leads The Charge

Grammy-winning jazz vocalist McLorin Salvant charts her own path in New Haven concert.

Etai Smotrich-Barr

26 Jan 2025 · 4 min read

A 20-Something Jazz Trio Blossoms

A 20-Something Jazz Trio Blossoms

Slide into originals at radio performance.

Paul Bass

23 Jan 2025 · 2 min read

Synchronicity Set

Synchronicity Set

Jazz trio Clutchtet brings the underground aboveground to a popular New Haven bar

Etai Smotrich-Barr

20 Jan 2025 · 3 min read

Original Jazz Compositions Shine

Original Jazz Compositions Shine

At Jazzy's Cabaret, where Avery Wyman Quartet wove new sounds amid the standards.

Midbrow Editor

13 Jan 2025 · 4 min read

The Underground Rises

The Underground Rises

Quartet lights up a vegan-friendly soccer pub, at latest installment of jazz series.

Midbrow Editor

3 Jan 2025 · 3 min read

Jazz Raindrops Fall

Jazz Raindrops Fall

At Black-Eyed Sally's.

Jamil Ragland

20 Dec 2024 · 2 min read

Jazz Heads Take Over

Jazz Heads Take Over

Elew lets loose at a Detroit spot that changes character as the weekend begins.

Ryan Patrick Hooper

13 Dec 2024 · 2 min read

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An Evening of Ceremony: Joy Harjo’s Native Jazz-Rock

Our world moves fast, and something special happens when these four focus on a center point—almost like an incantation.

Kathryn Parkman

1 Nov 2024 · 2 min read

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It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Dang Clarinet!

The Austin-based Miró Quartet, along with clarinetist David Shifrin, delivered a show that was by turns technically thrilling, culturally edifying, emotionally satisfying, and—wouldn’t you know it—swinging.

Z.B. Reeves

24 Oct 2024 · 2 min read

Foot Tappers Touch The 1920s

Foot Tappers Touch The 1920s

Four-piece Gypsy swing band The West Philly Foot Tappers brought 1930s Prohibition-era sounds across state lines to Delaware speakeasy “Hummingbird to Mars” on Thursday.

Emily Cohen

22 Oct 2024 · 2 min read

“Jass” As It Was Written

“Jass” As It Was Written

The Sanctuary — a dimly lit Chicago nightclub where jazz, blues, and poetry collided — was a pivotal place in the movie Love Jones, where a young poet named Darius Lovehall (Larenz Tate) attempts to woo Nina Mosley (Nia Long), an aspiring photographer.

Ryan Anderson

27 Sep 2024 · 3 min read