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South Beach Jazz Festival Marks 10 Years In Miami Beach With Grammy Winners And World-renowned Artists
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Amanda MacMaster
The South Beach Jazz Festival, presented by local non-profit Power Access, celebrates its 10th anniversary January 8–11, 2026, with a lineup worthy of its milestone year. The four-day festival will feature Grammy Award-winning and internationally acclaimed artists, and local legends performing throughout Miami Beach at venues including Faena Theater, The Bass Museum of Art, Collins Park, Lincoln Road, and the Miami Beach Bandshell. Free and ticketed performances. Leading the 2026 festival is the three-time Grammy Award-winning Spanish Harlem Orchestra, performing ...
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The Court At Versailles Reimagines Tycho Through A Jazz Lens On Debut Single 'A Walk'
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Eric Palmquist
For longtime friends pianist Joel Pierson and producer Eric Palmquist, Acoustic Electronica has been years in the making—an idea that surfaced in late-night conversations whenever they crossed paths. As both artists carved out their own careers in music—Pierson in jazz and contemporary classical music, Palmquist in alternative, pop, and electronic production—their creative worlds eventually converged around a shared question: What would happen if a jazz trio reimagined the seminal works of electronic dance music? The Court at Versailles starts to ...
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New Book: "You've Got Michael—Living Through HIStory" by Dan Beck
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N. Hepburn-Beaty
In 1991, Dan Beck became Michael Jackson’s main marketing contact at Epic Records. For five rollercoaster years, he was immersed in a world of unequalled stardom, dealing with the outsized ambition, whims and idiosyncrasies of the world’s most famous entertainer. It was a pivotal point in Jackson’s career. His last album had failed to repeat the record-shattering success of Thriller. Rumors about his personal life and his eccentricities had made him the subject of gossip and accusations. Tabloids had begun ...
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Sarah Jane Cion Releases Jazz Memoir 'The Now Era'
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Sarah Cion
Jazz pianist, composer, and educator Sarah Jane Cion—known for her award-winning artistry and her acclaimed appearances on NPR’s Piano Jazz—announces the release of her debut memoir, The Now Era: Improvisations on Presence, Rhythm, and the Art of Being Human. The book offers an intimate, often humorous look at life in and around music, while exploring presence, creativity, grief, joy, and the rhythms that guide a meaningful life. About the Book In The Now Era, Cion recounts stories from the bandstand, ...
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Gregg Arthur: Live at City Recital Hall—A New Concert Special Featuring Australian Jazz Royalty
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Lucy Scott
Something very rare is happening on Australian television. In a landscape where live jazz concerts are seldom broadcast, SBS will premiere Gregg Arthur: Live at City Recital Hall, a major new music special co-produced with Australian Theatre Live. The broadcast offers audiences across the country an opportunity to experience an artform rarely showcased on screen, presented through the work of one of Australia’s most respected and internationally recognised jazz vocalists. The concert has already been met with exceptional critical praise, ...
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Jon Faddis To Appear In Red Bank Fundraiser In Support Of Jazz Arts Project's Music Education Programs on December 14, 2025
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Jazz Arts Project, Inc.
Jazz Arts Project presents “The Joys of Jazz with special guest artist, jazz great Jon Faddis: A 'Legends & Lions' Concert Event. Each winter, this gala concert & fundraiser brings together our Jazz Arts Academy students (the young Lions) with world-class professional jazz artists (the Legend) for a delightful afternoon of live music and joy. This inspiring event—set for December 14, 2025 at 5:00pm— not only presents world-class jazz in a beautiful theater setting but also helps support transformative arts ...
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Jordan Rich: Cardiff Keyboard Wizard On A Global Stage
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All About Jazz
In 2015, when Wales Online described Jordan Rich as the “Cardiff keyboard wizard,” the recognition wasn’t just for a promising up-and-comer—but for a 22-year-old who had made waves far beyond his native Wales, writes Jenny Ashcroft. Born in 1993, Rich had matured into one of the UK’s most gifted jazz fusion keyboardists and composers by his early twenties, with a reputation built not on hype but on an unmistakable musical intelligence and an ability to bridge genres. His early years ...
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Reconstructing The Map: Vatan Singh Rajan And The Expanding World Of Experimental Jazz
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All About Jazz
If jazz is a conversation—spiraling out from smoky back rooms, bursting across imaginative borders—then Vatan Singh Rajan is not so much a new arrival as a visionary cartographer, continuously redrawing its frontiers in real time. The Delhi-born composer, drummer, music director, and theorist is revered by critics, peers, and educators across two hemispheres for startling originality and sweeping influence. But Rajan’s ascent is less the tale of youthful mimicry, as Leoni Griffith tells it, and more the stuff of prodigious ...
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