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Jersey City Jazz Festival 2026: A Fest For Musicians And More
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G Sib
The Jersey City Jazz Festival has always felt less like a festival built for ticket sales and more like one dreamed up by musicians. Across three days at Exchange Place Plaza, artists stood side-stage to watch one another and lingered in conversations long after their sets ended. The festival's merger with the Jersey City Latin Jazz Festival expanded the musical palette without sacrificing coherence, creating a weekend where straight-ahead jazz, Afro-Caribbean traditions, free improvisation and contemporary groove-based approaches shared the ...
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Jersey City Jazz Festival 2026 Lineup Revealed
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G Sib
The Jersey City Jazz Festival returns in 2026 with its biggest event yet, inviting music fans of all ages to experience jazz from across the spectrum including straight-ahead, Latin jazz and more throughout an unforgettable three-day celebration. Presented by Exchange Place Alliance, the free event runs from Friday evening, May 29 through Sunday, May 31 along the Hudson River waterfront at Exchange Place Plaza, offering sweeping views of lower Manhattan. Designed to welcome both locals and visitors, the Jersey City ...
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Kansas City Jazz ALIVE Hosts 'Scarcity vs Abundance Mentality' Panel Discussion on March 10th
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Michael Ricci
Join us for lunch Friday, March 10th! Scarcity Mentality vs Abundance Mentality in Jazz Wrapping It All Up! Moving the Kansas City jazz scene into a tangible model 12pm-1:15pm at Westport Coffeehouse Scarcity Mentality is the zero-sum paradigm of life. People with a Scarcity Mentality have a very difficult time sharing recognition and credit, power or profit—even with those who help in the production. They also have a very hard time being genuinely happy for the successes ...
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Percussionist Sasha Berliner Wins Seven-City Jazz Festival Tour
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Tony Franquiz
The jazz scene has a new rising star, and she’s a vibraphonist. Sasha Berliner, a 20-year-old musician, composer, producer and bandleader from San Francisco, won the LetterOne RISING STARS Jazz Award, an annual competition that offers up-and-coming jazz musicians an opportunity to make a name for themselves. “We were very impressed by the quality of the group of artists who were in the final round of voting and it was not easy to come to a decision about the winner,” ...
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Great Tastes Meet Good Taste At Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City Jazz Brunch Every Sunday
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
Promoting both individual and communal expression, Jazz is a particularly American art form. Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City, in association with Jazz producer Joe Donofrio, have prepared a full-spectrum Jazz brunch experience; where contemporary and classic Jazz will mingle with the sounds of culinary satisfaction at the hotel’s brand new Hard Rock Cafe for the Jazz brunch series serving from 11:00AM until 3:00PM every Sunday. The Hard Rock jazz brunch will combine delectable dining with world-class musicianship, delivering ...
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Jazz this week: Tony Bennett, two Miles Davis tributes, U City Jazz Festival, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's calendar of live jazz and creative music in St. Louis includes the return of a legendary vocalist; two different events paying tribute to this city's most influential jazz musician ever; several free outdoor events featuring live jazz, and more. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, June 7 Singer Tony Bennett, who remarkably is still touring regularly as a nonagenarian, returns to perform at the Fox Theatre. Some tickets are still available as of this writing; for details, visit ...
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Mexico City Jazz Tours with Jorge Canavati Announced
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Jorge Canavati
Jorge Canavati, host of the “Jazz de Mexico” radio show featured on 91.7FM KRTU Trinity University Radio in San Antonio has announced the Mexico City Jazz Tours project. An unprecedented and innovative culture and jazz tour of Mexico City, a top jazz center. The tour is a three day and two-night visit to Mexico City which includes visiting two jazz venues. Visitors will have ample time to set up satellite tours and shopping during the day. “This is very unique ...
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Jazz this week: New Orleans Suspects, U City Jazz Festival, Miles Davis at 90, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's lineup of jazz and creative music in St. Louis features a bit of New Orleans, a bit of Las Vegas, an appearance by an original member of a seminal jazz/fusion band, plus tributes to George Clinton and Miles Davis, and much more. Wednesday, June 8 Trumpeter Jim Manley and Wild, Cool and Swingin' will play their signature Vegas-style swing in a free concert at the Alton Senior High School Performing Arts Center, and guitarist Vincent Varvel performs at ...
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Jazz this week: Chris Botti, JazzU with Stefon Harris, Don Cunningham, U City Jazz Festival, Daniel Bennett, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's lineup of jazz and creative music performances in St. Louis encompasses musicians with a vast range of experience, from young teenage players getting their first chances onstage at a showcase club to an elder statesman who got his start more than a half-century ago in the fabled Gaslight Square entertainment district. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, June 3 Billed as the “New York Jazz Ensemble," bassist Tom Kennedy, saxophonists George Garzone and Steve Wirts, guitarist Joe Cohn ...
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Iowa City Jazz Festival Celebrates 25 in 2015
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
Over the past 12 or more years, I've made it to most of the Iowa City Jazz Festivals. And each time I did not attend, I kicked myself for weeks. It only takes me five hours to drive south from Minneapolis to Iowa City. My 90+ year-old-parents still live there so I have free accommodations (and an excuse to visit). Why have I failed to go every year? I recall once I skipped the festival because I was having thumb ...
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