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There’s no shortage of jazz music on Fat Tuesday, but there's a Valley musician who works to keep the music alive year-round, in part, by influencing the next generation of musicians.

Three Arizona artists from different backgrounds will be honored in February when Scottsdale’s Larsen Gallery will showcase works of former Arizona House Speaker Russell ‘Rusty’ Bowers, the late pioneering Native-American

Jazz Appreciation Month events for 2022 in metro Phoenix range from Tempe Jazz Day to International Jazz Day at the Nash and Scottsdale Civic Center.

By founding the first African American scuba club, Albert José Jones led the way for Black divers to explore the ocean—and their own history.

It was December 24th and I remember it quite yet.

Beyond International Jazz Day. Phoenix musicians weight in on igniting the jazz gene Ed Masley, Arizona Republic Doc Jones was in New Orleans for the first International Jazz Day, April 30, in 2012. “They had 7,000 people out there at about 8 o’clock in the morning,” he says. “A phenomenal sight." A year later, Jones — a music educator, who plays saxophone and keyboards — organized the Valleys first International Jazz Day, held at Cityscape. Its Jones hope that a ...