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KAHULUI - The Jazz Maui 2024 Maui Music Series presents the Fifth Annual Jazz Blues & Beyond Festival featuring professional musicians participating in concerts

The official cast album for The Guava Tree / El Guayabo, a new bilingual musical for young audiences, is available digitally on all platforms. With book and lyrics by Diana Grisanti and music by Emiliano Messiez, the musical premiered at the renowned Creede Repertory Theatre in Colorado in 2021. It toured across the Southwest and was seen by more than 40,000 students. 

New Album: Avishai Cohen and Abraham “Abe” Rodriguez Jr. are joining forces for the new full-length record Iroko

Abraham Rodriguez, Jr., and Avishai Cohen New Studio Release, Iroko

    Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify The chromatic harmonica is an instrument still finding its footing in the world of modern jazz music. Yvonnick Prene’s mission is to put it in its rightful place in the pantheon of instruments used to improvise. He’s placed the harmonica in many musical settings, including an organ trio … Continue reading

Since 1985, KUVO has provided a rare blend of music & news. We broadcast the best in Jazz, Latin Jazz & Blues in addition to 17 locally produced, culturally diverse programs.

Sixty years after their first meeting, Cuban music legends Chucho Valdés and Paquito D’Rivera have finally reunited for a new recording called I Missed You Too!

  Bob Stewart Hollis Monroe Ron Adkins Bob DeForest Saul Lubaroff Bob Stewart: Monday-Friday 6 a.m. – 10 a.m. 1) Dave McMurray   – Grateful Deadication (Blue Note) It’s not every day one hears the rock band the Grateful Dead used as source material for a jazz artist. But that’s exactly what saxophonist Dave McMurray did on … Continue reading