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Six-time Grammy And Two-time Latin Grammy Winner Arturo O’farrill To Deliver Jazz-Con 2025 Keynote: In The Key Of Influence

September 10, 2025

Jazz-Con 2025 is honored to announce that Arturo O’Farrill—six-time Grammy Award winner, two-time Latin Grammy Award winner, pianist, composer, bandleader, educator, and cultural advocate—will deliver the keynote address In the Key of Influence on Monday, September 15, 2025, from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (EST). This special pre-recorded keynote interview will be a centerpiece of Jazz-Con ...

News: Music Industry

A New Era For Colombian Zarzuela At Home And Beyond

September 11, 2025

When conversations turn to the resurgence of zarzuela in Colombia, the name that invariably leads the discussion is Lina Sarmiento. Recognized as the foremost zarzuela and jazz crossover vocalist of the new generation, Sarmiento’s impact is the result of formidable talent paired with an unyielding drive to reinvent tradition. As Ramondo Clere reports, at just 27, ...

Article: Inside The Interview

Lineage, Lift-Off: Sarah Hanahan’s Alto Speaks in the Present Tense

by Steven Roby
September 10, 2025

Alto saxophonist Sarah Hanahan plays with the urgency of a musician who learned the music in real time--absorbing the tradition on the bandstand and transforming it into forward momentum. “I've always been sure of my connection to the instrument," she says. “Anyone who knows me knows my dad is a drummer and a great ...

Article: Live Review

Mino Cinélu at The Presidio Theatre

by Steven Roby
September 10, 2025

Mino Cinélu Presidio Theatre Mino 4 Miles San Francisco, CA September 6, 2025 The room begins with absence--no band, no chatter--just a white gauze curtain hanging like a flag with no country. A looped rhythm creeps in from the edges, dry and sandy, like shoes on stone. Then the words ...

News: Festival

Announcing Star-Studded Line-up Of 2025 TD James Moody Jazz Festival, November 8-23, 2025

September 10, 2025

New Jersey’s Largest Jazz Festival Returns to Newark for 14th Year Hip-Hop Legends & Leading Poets Unite for Powerful Fusions of Music and Social Justice Festival Artistic Advisor Christian McBride Leads His Big Band with Andra Day, José James, and Ledisi The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) today announced details of ...

News: Music Industry

Lina Sarmiento: The Voice Redefining Colombian Zarzuela With Jazz

September 10, 2025

In the ever-innovative landscape of world music, few voices have made as powerful, imaginative, and lasting impression as Lina Sarmiento, the electrifying Colombian artist widely hailed as her generation’s leading zarzuela/early music/jazz crossover vocalist. An honors graduate of EAFIT University in Medellín and Boston’s prestigious Longy School of Music, Sarmiento has catapulted a distinctive blend of ...

Article: Interview

Kahlil Childs and Jacob Hart: Two Young Stars Rise From Detroit

by Paul Rauch
September 9, 2025

The Detroit Jazz Festival is a huge draw. For fans, it is the largest free jazz event in the world, removing financial barriers and accommodating over 300,000 attendees over Labor Day weekend annually. Over four days, four stages present the best the jazz world has to offer and in the process, celebrates the great jazz history ...

Article: Live Review

Cory Henry and The Funk Apostles at Miner Auditorium

by Steven Roby
September 9, 2025

Cory Henry and The Funk Apostles Miner Auditorium San Francisco, CA September 5, 2025 SFJAZZ Center's digital director, Ross Eustis, started the evening with a brief welcome, highlighting more than 350 shows on the new season's schedule. The crowd greeted the band with the kind of enthusiasm associated with Cory Henry's ...

News: Performance / Tour

Sublime Vocalist Sara Serpa Returns To Her Alma Mater For A Duo Concert And Master Class With Pianist Matt Mitchell On Thursday, October 2

September 9, 2025

New England Conservatory (NEC) welcomes Jazz Studies alumna, composer and vocalist Sara Serpa (MM, 2008) and pianist Matt Mitchell for a performance and master class focusing on the art of the duo. The performance takes place at 7:30 pm on Thursday, October 2 at Williams Hall, 290 Huntington Avenue, Boston. Admission is free and open to ...

Article: Live Review

Anthony Wilson Nonet At Joe Henderson Lab

by Steven Roby
September 8, 2025

Anthony Wilson Nonet Joe Henderson Lab San Francisco, CA September 4, 2025 Anthony Wilson chose a high-wire debut for his first time leading his own band at SFJAZZ: nine musicians packed onto the Joe Henderson Lab's stage--roughly 20 by 12 feet--to open the 2025-26 season. The Nonet fit like a ...