The history of the Jazzfest Berlin, begun in 1964 as the ‘Berliner Jazztage,’ encompasses being founded in a divided city and continuing…
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Jazz journalist, author and radio show host Sammy Stein filed two comprehensive reports last summer on musical activities in the face of…
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All photos© Sánta István Csaba Although U.S. jazz fests were cancelled, rescheduled, or went virtual this summer, Italy’s Torino Jazz Festival 2020…
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The story is like a fairytale, one that is almost impossible to believe or for a child to understand. It is the…
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Now where were we? The last live gig that I attended was just before the level 3 lockdown. It seems like forever…
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In her recently released Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit, author Eliese Colette Goldbach, a native Clevelander, called her hometown “an…
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Finalists for the 25th annual Jazz Awards presented by the Jazz Journalists Association have been announced at www.JJAJazzAwards.org, demonstrating both generational continuity and diversity of…
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When Greece shut down schools and advised social distancing in early March, Greek bassist Petros Klampanis was on a plane to Bogotá,…
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As the U.S. economy craters in response to the Covid-19 virus, the mostly freelancing writers, photographers and videographers covering jazz are affected…
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New Zealand is a long way from Germany but the country has been on our minds recently. Our skies are all but…
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Today at 2 pm (PDT) Hermann’s Jazz Club of Victoria, BC is live-streaming Maria Manna’s Sunday Gospel, normally hosted monthly, as an…
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APRIL 6 — There’s a running joke that emerged during the first days (weeks?) of the COVID19 crisis – and it doesn’t…
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