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John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival Fourteenth Year

by La-Faithia White
A collection of photos from the John Coltrane International Jazz & Blues Festival in High Point, NC Saturday August 30th, 2025 featuring Snarky Puppy, Lizz Wright and Meshell Ndegeocello, The HeadHunters, Clint Holmes, Nnenna Freelon, Take 6, and the John Coltrane Youth Jazz Workshop. Labor Day weekend marked the kickoff of the fourteenth annual John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival in High Point, NC. The weather was picture perfect, with bright sunshine and comfortable temperatures. Returning to ...
Continue ReadingSFJAZZ Fall Season Kickoff 2025

by Ronald Davis
A collection of photos from the Blind Boys of Alabama, Cory Henry and Stella Heath concerts at SFJAZZ in San Francisco on September 7, 2025 featuring The Blind Boys of Alabama, Cory Henry and Stella Heath. ...
Continue ReadingMohini Dey Plays Yoshi's

by Ronald Davis
A collection of photos from the Mohini Dey concert at Yoshi's Oakland in Oakland on September 10, 2025 featuring Mohini Dey, Marco Cirigliano, Jonathan Mones and Kash Iyengar . ...
Continue ReadingRuthie Foster Fall 2025 at the Freight

by Ronald Davis
A collection of photos from the Ruthie Foster concert at The Freight in Berkeley CA on September 17, 2025 featuring Ruthie Foster, and Scott Miller. ...
Continue ReadingCindy Blackman Santana SFJAZZ 2025 Fall Season

by Ronald Davis
A collection of photos from the Cindy Blackman Santana concert at SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco on September 14, 2025 featuring Cindy Blackman Santana, Ravi Coltrane, Patrice Rushen, Aurélien Budynek, Benny Rietveld and special guest guitarist Carlos Santana. ...
Continue ReadingThe Monday Night Jam at the Seattle Jazz Fellowship

by Paul Rauch
Beginning on January 20, 2025, the weekly Monday night jam session at the Seattle Jazz Fellowship became something very different from any session that had historicially taken place in Seattle--it became an extremely popular weekly destination for gen-z patrons in their teens and twenties looking for a place to socialize and dig into an art form they had only recently been made unaware of. While the 7:30 PM session had previously drawn younger musicians from area high school and college ...
Continue ReadingGiovanni Guidi Trio at ECM Warsaw Festival

by Marek J. Śmietański
A collection of photos from the Giovanni Guidi Trio concert at Chopin University of Music (UMFC) in Warsaw on September 3, 2025 featuring Giovanni Guidi, Joe Rehmer and Enrico Morello. ...
Continue ReadingSound & Gravity: Chicago's New Home For Poignant Creative Music

by Hrayr Attarian
The inaugural 2025 edition of the ambitious Sound & Gravity Festival took place from September 10th through September 14th at seven different venues on Chicago's Northwest Side. Over 50 musicians, from several countries, performed works spanning genres from contemporary Western classical to jazz, experimental music, and indie rock. The not-for-profit Constellation Performing Arts, which drummer Mike Reed founded in 2013, organized this five-day event. The music was very much in the eclectic style presented at Constellation Chicago over the past ...
Continue ReadingLedisi at The Royal Baths Park

by Marek J. Śmietański
A collection of photos from the Ledisi concert at The Royal Baths Park in Warsaw on July 18, 2025 featuring Ledisi, Jermaine Parrish, Joe Harley, Ronald “CJ" Alexander, Xavier Lynn and Sara Williams. ...
Continue ReadingKatie Melua at Ladies' Jazz Festival

by Marek J. Śmietański
A collection of photos from the Katie Melua concert at Polsat Plus Arena Gdynia in Gdynia on July 25, 2025 featuring Katie Melua, Gabriel Piers-Mantell, Billy Adamson, Flo Moore and Peter Adam Hill. ...
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