5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Alto Saxophone

Almost no other instrument seems so synonymous with jazz as the sax. Listen to some classic alto playing from Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Stitt and more greats.
Rutland Herald

Jazz barnburner in Barre: Celebrated Branford Marsalis Quartet brings the fun

One of the most accessible, well-known and celebrated artists in jazz makes a rare Vermont appearance when saxophonist ...
Midland Reporter-Telegram

Eric Baker to blend jazz and classical at WTS Spotlight

West Texas trumpeter Eric Baker blends jazz and classical in Heitzeg’s "American Nomad" at West Texas Symphony’s Spotlight on ...
Wall Street Journal

Makaya McCraven’s Energetic Jazz Fusion

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 ...
London Evening Standard

EFG London Jazz Festival 2025: an insider's guide to all the hottest shows

Jazz is attracting a new generation of fans and the EFG London Jazz Festival is here to cater to them with global superstars flying in from all corners. Tomoki Sanders is jetting in from New York with ...
The Irish Times

What’s gone wrong at Guinness Cork Jazz Festival?

A painting in the arrivals hall at Cork Airport has long shown many of the greats who have played the city’s jazz festival. Upfront are four legends of the music – Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, ...
The Irish Times

Jazz musician Daniel Herskedal: ‘I wanted to feel those deep bass sounds. It was like a whole-body experience’

Daniel Herskedal lives in one of the coldest places in Norway. The virtuoso brass player, an acclaimed if somewhat unlikely star of European jazz, recently moved to Røros, an old copper-mining town ...
Berkshire Eagle

In "The Jazz Barn," John Gennari chronicles the birth of jazz studies at the Music Inn in Lenox

LENOX — The first chapter of John Gennari’s book “The Jazz Barn” opens with a pilgrimage through the woods — a trio of kitchen workers searching in the night for a musical oasis in the Lenox hills.
Seattle Times

Seattle Jazz Fellowship’s Monday night jazz jam draws all-ages crowd

Let the record state: Jazz music has not always been a gray-haired endeavor. Somewhere on the other side of the U.S. moon landing, a “swinging” tune denoted young, vivacious couples doing their ...
Nepali Times

Jazz as healing music

Jazzmandu Festival 2025 was nearly cancelled, but the organisers decided to go ahead with it anyway, believing in the power of jazz for healing and restoration. The Surya Nepal Jazzmandu is back in ...
KSBW The Central Coast

Monterey Jazz Festival returns with world-class performances

The Monterey Jazz Festival kicks off its 68th edition this weekend, featuring 79 events across five stages at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. The Monterey Jazz Festival begins Friday at 3:30 p.m. at ...