The University of Connecticut Jazz Combos took to von der Mehden Recital Hall on Sunday, Nov. 2, for an afternoon performance featuring jazz groups filled with UConn students.

Ron Carter is among the most original, prolific, and influential bassists in jazz. With more than 2,000 albums to his credit, he has recorded with many of music's greats: Tommy Flanagan, Gil Evans, ...

HOT young sax player Donovan Haffner was a recent guest on Soweto Kinch’s excellent Round Midnight jazz show (Radio 3 and iPlayer) in the slot called 4×4. This is where the invitee gets to select a ...

Sumptuous, unpretentious and occasionally frenetic – a type of jazz that thrusts the genre into modernity and beyond. That’s how to describe the music of corto.alto. Born out of a Glaswegian flat back ...

Blue Note Records has set their Classic Vinyl Series picks for December 2025, and one of the two releases will be Jimmy Smith’s House Party. Originally released in the late 1950s, House Party sees the ...

Pharoah Sanders’ 1977 release Izipho Zam (My Gifts) on the Strata-East label is a fascinating listen. Widely regarded as a landmark in the evolution of free jazz, it continues to grow on me—and that, ...

A one-time-only performance of the George Gray/Sharif Kales Quintet called Jazz: A Music of the Spirit is on Sunday, November ...

Amidst classes, (seemingly never-ending) assignments on the to-do list, and many, many other priorities, I’ve found a lot of joy in admiring the views of Fall around Grounds to help me decompress ...

Arizona Jazz Fest has been canceled. The event was scheduled for the weekend of Nov. 7-9 at Tumbleweed Park in Chandler. Headliners included the beyond-iconic soul sensation Al Green, former Gap Band ...

Ten years ago, I was in Chicago to cover the annual late-summer Jazz Festival there, and I was on a mission to hear local and regional musicians who hadn’t made it big in New York just yet. During a ...

Arizona Jazz Fest is a three-day event from Nov. 7-9, 2025, at Tumbleweed Park in Chandler. Headliners include Al Green, Charlie Wilson, Babyface and an all-star tribute to Frankie Beverly. Tickets ...