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Hingetown Jazz Festival 2026

by John Chacona
September 14, 2026

Hingetown Jazz Festival BOP STOP, Jukebox and Saucy Brew Works Cleveland, OH September 5, 2026 Birds flyin' high, you know how I feel Sun in the sky, you know how I feel Breeze driftin' on by, you know how I feel Beloved Cleveland vocalist Evelyn Wright ...

Ava Preston And Moises Borges Play And Sing Across Borders

by John Chacona
July 15, 2026

On paper, Moises Borges and Ava Preston are an odd match. He's a guitarist from Bahia, the cradle of Afro-Brazilian culture, who has been a welcome fixture on northeast Ohio's musical scene for decades. She's a vocalist just a couple of years out of high school whose international career is just beginning. On the bandstand, though, ...

David Ambrosio Honors The Spirit of the '60s With Civil Disobedience

by John Chacona
May 19, 2026

Social activism and jazz have a long mutual history that arguably reached an apex with the resistance music of the '60s. On record, that music found a home at labels such as Impulse! and ESP-Disk. At the same time, artists in the Blue Note Records stable were assembling a body of work that was inspired by ...

Obsolescence Quartet at The Treelawn Social Club

by John Chacona
January 21, 2026

Obsolescence QuartetThe Treelawn Social Club Cleveland, OH January 11, 2026 An evening of completely improvised music by top-level players is not an everyday thing in Cleveland. So the Sunday evening set by the cheekily named Obsolescence Quartet (an oblique reference to the effects on human creators of artificial intelligence) was ...

Live At The Bop Stop Announces Season 20 Lineup

January 16, 2026

Live at the Bop Stop kicks off its sixth year and twentieth season of the program this month with performances from Bill Ransom and Keynote artist Troy Roberts. Live at the Bop Stop features jazz performances recorded live to air from the stage of the BOP STOP in Cleveland, Ohio, airs on 82 affiliates in 8 ...

Hingetown Jazz Festival 2025

by John Chacona
September 4, 2025

Hingetown Jazz Festival Various venues Cleveland, OH August 30, 2025 It would surprise no one if this review of the third Hingetown Jazz Festival in Cleveland began, as such pieces often do, by noting how the festival has grown. But that would not exactly be accurate. By the most ...

Dan Weiss Quartet At Bop Stop

by John Chacona
June 22, 2025

Dan Weiss Quartet Bop Stop at the Music Settlement Cleveland, OH June 6, 2025 In his liner notes to Phillip Golub's Abiding Memory (Endectomorph Music, 2024), Vijay Iyer coined a name for the kind of music made by a set of mostly young, genre-agnostic musicians in New York, “New Brooklyn Complexity," ...

The Bad Plus at Bop Stop

by John Chacona
February 14, 2025

The Bad PlusBOP STOP at the Music SettlementCleveland, OHFebruary 7, 2025 Teachers of jazz--the good ones, at least--emphasize the importance of finding an individual sound. That goes for ensembles, too, and at their Friday appearance at Cleveland's Bop Stop, The Bad Plus demonstrated how, even with a radical overhauling of personnel ...

Ken Vandermark’s Edition Redux at BOP STOP at The Music Settlement

by John Chacona
March 10, 2024

Ken Vandermark's Edition Redux BOP STOP at The Music Settlement Cleveland, OH February 27, 2024 Every jazz concert brings an experience that you've never had before and likely weren't expecting. In the case of the Cleveland concert by protean saxophonist Ken Vandermark's Edition Redux, the source was a new Apple Watch ...