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Veronica Swift

At age 23, Veronica Swift is now being recognized around the country as one of the top young jazz singers on the scene. In the fall of 2015, she won second place at the prestigious Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition. In 2016 she was asked to perform a concert of her own at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York City and she was a guest artist with Michael Feinstein at Jazz at Lincoln Center with the Tedd Firth Big Band and Marilyn Maye and Freda Payne. Veronica’s first appearance at Jazz at Lincoln Center was at age 11 when she performed at the “Women in Jazz” series at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola

Gretchen Parlato, Freddy Cole, Tank and the Bangas, Cecile McLorin Salvant and More!

by Jua Howard
August 5, 2026

Hey Music Family! I hope you all are taking care of yourselves and protecting your peace. It's time for another episode of the “First Instrument Jazz Show"! I've got a lot of new music including from Gretchen Parlato, Suzanne Pittson,Tank and the Bangas, Tom Ricci, Kate McGarry and Cecile McLorin Salvant. I've also got more timeless ...

Dawn Clement, Chris McNulty, Stella Heath, Elina Duni, John Clayton With Rene Marie & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
May 25, 2026

This broadcast includes new music from Dawn Clement, Chris McNulty, Stella Heath, Elina Duni and John Clayton featuring Rene Marie, with birthday shoutouts to Carla Bley, Betty Carter, Stevie Wonder, Virginia Mayhew, Jennifer Wharton, Audrey Silver, Deidre Rodman Stuck, Karin Krog, Nadje Noordhuis, Sarah Hanahan, Veronica Swift, Brittany Anjou and Grace Kelly among others. Happy listening ...

Javier Nero Jazz Orchestra: Alkebulan

by Jack Bowers
March 11, 2026

On Alkebulan, the second recording by his Washington, DC-area Jazz Orchestra, composer, arranger and trombonist Javier Nero pays loving tribute to his African heritage, as he did on the orchestra's earlier album for Outside In Music, emet (The Black Land). As before, Nero uses his considerable skills as a writer and orchestrator to share and amplify ...

Unity Jazz Festival 2026 at Jazz At Lincoln Center

by Paul Reynolds
January 12, 2026

Unity Jazz FestivalOpening NightJazz at Lincoln CentreNew York, NY January 8, 2026 It does not rain--or snow--jazz in New York in the first week of January, it pours--or blizzards--the music. Winter JazzFest, the longtime colossus that takes over clubs in downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn, has been joined in the past three years ...

La Vie En Rose

By James Sarno

Label: Skeet Records
Released: 2025

Someone to Watch Over Me

By James Sarno

Label: Skeet Records
Released: 2025

Treasury, Volume 2

By Terry Waldo

Label: Turtle Bay Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Guess Who’s in Town; Snake Rag; Wabash Blues; Muscle Shoals; Smiles; Get Out and Get Under the Moon; The Smiler; Sweet Sue; Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down; Original Rags; Viper Mad.

Terry Waldo & the Gotham City Band: Treasury, Volume 2

by Jack Bowers
May 28, 2025

Like any other handiwork you can name, contemporary jazz did not emerge from a vacuum. It sprang forth from a variety of sources, including but not limited to bebop, cool jazz, swing, trad jazz (Dixieland), blues, stride and perhaps the granddaddy of them all, ragtime. Yes, ragtime. Before there was King Oliver or Louis Armstrong, Duke ...

The Big Stage: How Festivals Are Reviving Jazz All Around India

by Karan Khosla
May 26, 2025

The live music scene in India is flourishing, and jazz is riding the tide. A recent Ernst & Young study estimates that the live music sector in India reached a value of around USD 1.4 billion in 2024 and is predicted to increase 20% yearly. With Gen Z and millennials making approximately 90% of all live ...