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7th Annual Pittsfield City Jazz Festival Taking Place October 7-20 in Western Massachusetts

September 14, 2011

Grace Kelly, Phil Woods, Armen Donelian, Greg Caputo, and the BerkshiresJazz Youth Ensemble are among the performers at the 7th annual Pittsfield CityJazz Festival, October 7-20, 2011. The festival gets under way on Columbus Day weekend, Oct. 7-9 with Jazz About Town, when several restaurants and lounges in downtown Pittsfield offer a variety of instrumental and ...

Cuban Jazz Pianist Alfredo Rodriguez Performs at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston on Tuesday, September 13

September 13, 2011

Cuban jazz pianist Aflredo Rodriguez is performing at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston, Massachusetts on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets to the show are $20 and can be purchased online. Rodriguez left Cuba in 2009 to pursue a musical career and has since played around the world. His influences range from Back and ...

WICN to be the Home of the New England Jazz Hall of Fame in Worcester, Massachusetts

September 12, 2011

WICN 90.5 FM Public Radio is going to be home to the New England Jazz Hall of Fame, a tribute to the greats who have made the region's jazz scene so vibrant. The Hall of Fame is a special project of the New England Jazz Alliance (NEJA), which initiated it as a traveling exhibit in 2001. ...

Bond Jazz Experiment at Langham Hotel Boston Announces Fall Lineup of Live Jazz

September 7, 2011

BOND restaurant | lounge has released an exciting line-up of live music in its Jazz Experiment series for fall, 2001, featuring emerging artists from greater Boston's vibrant jazz community. The music takes place Wednesday evenings, from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m., and there is no cover charge. BOND restaurant | lounge is located at The Langham Hotel, ...

Massachusetts Welcomes Tourists This Labor Day Weekend

September 4, 2011

Tanglewood Jazz Festival in Lenox Officials at the Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism are putting out the welcome mat for visitors to enjoy Labor Day weekend in Massachusetts, with a full schedule of fun and inexpensive travel ideas. Executive Director Betsy Wall told The Boston Globe, “The storm has come and gone, but summer is ...

Madeleine Peyroux Performing at Berklee Performance Center in Boston on Friday, October 7

September 1, 2011

Jazz Singer Nadia Washington Performing at the Langham Boston's Bond Lounge on Wednesday, August 31

August 31, 2011

Jazz singer Nadia Washington is performing at the BOND Restaurant | Lounge at the Boston Langham Hotel on Wednesday, August 31, 2011 from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. The Dallas-born musician—who cites Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan as influences—has been performing since she was a child. She received the prestigious Bill Cosby Presidential Scholarship to attend Berklee ...

Lance Houston Jazz Quartet Performing at Tamo Bar at Seaport Boston Hotel on Tuesday, August 30

August 30, 2011

The Lance Houston Jazz Quartet is performing live outdoors at the Tamo Bar at the Seaport Boston Hotel in the city's Seaport District on Tuesday, August 30, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. The Berklee-graduate and his talented group play a wide range of cool jazz songs perfect for the warm summer breezes. Houston's sound has been compared ...

Tanglewood Jazz Festival Takes Place on Labor Day Weekend, September 2-4

August 30, 2011

Lizz Wright The annual Tanglewood Jazz Festival in Lenox, Massachusetts is taking place this weekend, September 2-4, 2011, featuring an all-star line-up of great jazz musicians. Among the performances: Robin McKelle Quartet & Michael Kaeshammer Quintet Angelique Kidjo, Dianne Reeves and Lizz Wright, Judy Carmichael's Jazz Inspired, Coast to Coast Septet featuring NEA Jazz Master Jimmy ...

Jazz Singer Samantha Farrell Performing at Bond Lounge in Boston on Wednesday, August 24

August 24, 2011

Rising star Samantha Farrell has a return engagement at BOND Lounge at Boston Langham Hotel on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 from 7:00-10:00 p.m. The singer/songwriter, originally from Boston and now living in Los Angeles, has been described by Ben Evans of the Huffington Post as possessing “a liquor-honey voice, deft guitar work and slightly melancholic tones ...