Since your scribe last visited the Jazz Juniors competition in 2018, this steadily evolving festival has undergone further changes, not least the appointment of saxophonist Adam Pierończyk as artistic ...

More than most, 2021 was a year of mixed results — an endless scroll of gains and losses, halting progress and hard retrenchment. For jazz musicians and the community of listeners around them, it ...

The lineup of musicians for the 8th annual Springfield Jazz & Roots Festival will be a mix of nostalgic and familiar faces with up-and-coming artists. The festival will take place at a new location — ...

Autumn in New York is often a wondrous time — but last year was a whole different story. During a phase of the pandemic before vaccines or rapid tests, jazz clubs were still dark, like so many other ...

From the 1930s through the 1950s, Denver was of the few stops for jazz artists traveling between Kansas City and the West Coast. Five Points was dubbed the “Harlem of the West” as Black icons such as ...