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I just made it to the last hour of the last day of a show I had been meaning to see, Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961): Poetry is Everything at the Morgan Library. Friends recommended it, knowing of my interest in ekphrasis: the interpretation of one art form via another, as in a poem written about a painting.

FRED HERSCHs 15 GRAMMY® Award Nominations include 7 for "Best Jazz Album", 6 for "Best Improvised Jazz Solo" and 2 for "Best Instrumental Composition." Hersch...

3x-GRAMMY® Award-Winning and 5x-GRAMMY® Nominated Jazz Singer & Composer CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT joins forces with GRAMMY® Award-Winning Pianist & Composer...

Sara Gazarek (voice), Julian Shore (piano), Matt Aronoff (bass), Jared Schonig (drums)“…she may well turn out to be the next important jazz singer.”– DON HECKMAN, THE LOS ANGELES TIMESBorn and raised in Seattle, WA, 3x GRAMMY® nominated jazz vocalist Sara Gazarek reigns as one of the most creative voices of her generation, and one “who may well turn out to be the next important jazz singer” (Los Angeles Times). Collaborating with jazz legends Fred Hersch, Billy Childs, Kurt Elling, ...

Guitarist Mary Halvorson joins with horn, piano and drums to lay richly dissonant themes and solos over reflective and propulsive backgrounds

★★★★★ It is of course vast: 150 performances, 15 stages, 90,000 visitors over three days. Anyone who thinks jazz is a minority sport would be disabused by the

The paintings of French artist, illustrator and graphic designer Jean Jullien entice viewers into his colourful and playful world.

They’re brilliantly talented. They’re impressively young. Each has taken the jazz world by storm. Together they have won a roster of awards too long to list and have performed alongside many of the leading names...

When Credibility Matters

There's a lot to see and do in the Bay Area this weekend and beyond, from Paula West and Josh Kornbluth to San Jose blues and a piano superstar.