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Jazz at the Nash Volume 2: Roots in AZ

by Dave Kaufman
September 14, 2017

This is the second in a series of In Pictures articles on The Nash, a jazz club and educational institution that is at the heart of the Phoenix jazz universe. This article celebrates visiting musicians who have roots in Arizona. Tenor titan Tony Malaby, a native of Tucson, brought his outstanding group Paloma Recio ...

Jeff "Tain" Watts' Elvin Jones Alumni Band at Jazz Standard

by Adrien H. Tillmann
September 13, 2017

Mavis Staples At Stern Grove

by Walter Atkins
September 11, 2017

Smokin' at The Nash

by Dave Kaufman
September 10, 2017

Jazz cognoscenti may not think of Phoenix as a hotbed of great jazz. However, a confluence of factors contributes to a remarkably vibrant jazz scene. The city boasts a wealth of excellent jazz education programs spread across universities and community colleges. This has attracted great musicians and educators from around the country who play the local ...

2017 Charlie Parker Jazz Festival

by Richard Conde
September 10, 2017

The City Parks Foundation kicked off its 25th annual Charlie Parker Jazz Festival Wednesday August 23, 2017 at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. On Thursday August 24th and Friday August 25th the festival continued its musical celebration uptown in Harlem at Marcus Garvey Park. It featured the work of Jason Samuels Smith's “Chasing ...

Buddy Guy and the Damn Right Blues Band Heats Up a Summer Night at the Sandler Center

by Mark Robbins
September 9, 2017

When 81 years old Buddy Guy walked from stage left to the the center stage microphone of the Sandler Center the audience was already on it's feet. That's how it's been for the past 50 plus years, whether sharing the stage with Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix and others or, like Tuesday night (August 22), ...

Smida Jazz Festival 2017 in Romania

by Nedici Dragoslav
September 1, 2017

The second edition of the Smida Jazz Festival took place in the middle of Apuseni Natural Park in the tiny Romanian town of Smida. The town itself consists of a couple of houses which meant festival goers had to pitch tents or sleep in their cars. The festival ran from August 25th to the 27th and ...

The Art Ensemble of Chicago at the 2017 Time In Jazz Festival

by Roberto Cifarelli
August 29, 2017

The Art Ensemble of Chicago were, as expected, one of the main attractions at Time in Jazz, the Festival organized for the thirtieth consecutive year by Italian trumpet player Paolo Fresu in his native city of Berchidda, in Sardinia. The line-up of the AEoC, which played a fiery set, featured the founding members Roscoe ...

Brubeck Institute Summer Jazz Colony 2017

by Gregory Savage
August 22, 2017

The Brubeck Institute Summer Jazz Colony is hosted by the Brubeck Institute at the University of the Pacific in Stockton. This year's program ran from August 6th to August 11th. In keeping with the global vision Dave and Iola Brubeck brought to the art form, the Colony features five international students attending through the Brubeck Institute's ...

The Jazzmeia Horn 5tet at Cooper Hewitt Museum

by Adrien H. Tillmann
August 21, 2017