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Skylar Tang

Skylar Tang is an eighteen-year-old rising-star trumpet player and composer. She was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and currently attends Columbia University and Juilliard Conservatory in New York. Skylar has played locally with renowned musicians such as Larry Vuckovich, Marcus Shelby, and Amina Figarova at the Bay Area’s most esteemed venues such as SFJAZZ, the Black Cat, and San Jose Jazz Fest. She has toured the US, Europe, and South Africa with Carnegie Hall's National Youth Orchestra Jazz Band, which featured guest artists Sean Jones, Dee Dee Bridgewater, and Jazzmeia Horn

Passionata

By Technocats

Label: Cold Plunge Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Normality; Traffic Jam; Not Van Morrison; Horse Feathers; Dancing Light; Technocats; The Race Is On; Passionata; Nostalgia; Double Play (bonus track).

Detroit Jazz Festival 2026: A Gathering in a Great Jazz City

by Paul Rauch
September 15, 2026

Detroit Jazz Festival 2026 Hart Plaza Detroit, MI September 4-7, 2026 Thursday evening is when artists, media and event staffers begin to file into the Detroit Marriott, arriving from points around the globe. The common purpose is the 47th annual Detroit Jazz Festival, an annual tradition on Labor Day weekend. The ...

Technocats: Passionata

by Jack Bowers
September 8, 2026

The Technocats are a Michigan-based co-op septet devoted for the most part to performing the music of fellow Michigander Gregg Hill, who composed every number on the group's 2026 recording, Passionata, including its sure-to-please “bonus" track, “Double Play." The first of Hill's compositions, “Normality," sets the enterprise in motion but in so doing lands ...

Live in Johannesburg

By Sean Jones

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Theme from The Asphalt Jungle; Evidence; Isigqi Suite; Trane; A Time for Love; Rejoice; New Musical Express; Shiny Stockings; The Confession; Kadura; Over the Rainbow; Under the Moon and Over the Sky; We’re Still Here.

Words Fall Short

By Joshua Redman

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: A Message To Unsend; So It Goes; Words Fall Short; Borrowed Eyes; Icarus; Over The Jelly-Green Sky; She Knows; Era’s End.

John Santos at Miner Auditorium

by Steven Roby
December 3, 2025

John Santos Sextet Miner Auditorium John Santos 70th Birthday ConcertSan Francisco, CA November 28, 2025  A warm, familial feeling filled the Miner Auditorium this Thanksgiving weekend, creating a noticeable shift from its usual formal reverence. When John Santos stepped onto the stage--tall, slim, and dressed in a crisp white suit ...

Joshua Redman: Words Fall Short

by Doug Collette
July 6, 2025

After extended tenures on Warner Brothers and Nonesuch Records, saxophonist/composer/bandleader Joshua Redman debuted on the Blue Note jazz label in 2023 with Where We Are. And while its successor, Words Fall Short, is right in line with that record by featuring vocals, it initiates a new phase in the leader's career by showcasing his new quartet ...

Introducing Trumpeter Skylar Tang

by Sanford Josephson
February 6, 2025

"Every now and then," said trumpeter Sean Jones, “a musician comes along who has a vision and focus that you just know will affect the world--a sense of high artistry, skill, and profound leadership. Skylar Tang is one of the ones in her generation who fits this description." Jones is Artistic Director of Carnegie ...

Monterey Jazz Festival 2021: Returning to the Scene of the Legacy

by Josef Woodard
October 4, 2021

Monterey Jazz Festival Monterey County Fairgrounds Monterey, CA September 24-26, 2021 Hastily and heroically assembled, the 64th annual Monterey Jazz Festival took over the Monterey County Fairgrounds, with an added, unusual emotional power. After losing a year to COVID's live music-slashing sword, this great American institution--which rightly touts its legacy ...