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Shakespearian actors will join the Reno Jazz Orchestra to perform the music of Duke Ellington’s “Such Sweet Thunder” concert on November 11 and 12, 2023, at the Good Luck Macbeth theater in Reno. David A. Brennan, DMA, will be the Guest Music Director, and the Reno Jazz Orchestra’s Jazz Workshop students will open the show.

Sixty years ago Sandy Brown thought Cannonball Adderley's Jive Samba the dullest thing he'd heard since yesterday's Juke Box Jury

Shakespearian actors will join the Reno Jazz Orchestra to perform the music of Duke Ellington’s “Such Sweet Thunder” concert on November 11 and 12, 2023, at the Good Luck Macbeth theater in Reno. David A. Brennan, DMA, will be the Guest Music Director, and the Reno Jazz Orchestra’s Jazz Workshop students will open the show.

Despite a slew of jaw-dropping credits, including playing with George Russell and Bill Evans, the drummer has maintained a relatively low profile in large part because he moved to Boston in 1971 to focus on teaching. He celebrates his birthday with a show at The Lilypad on Oct. 15.

The iconic songwriter known for "Margaritaville" died Friday at his home in Long Island, four years after being diagnosed with Merkel Cell Skin Cancer. Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute are among the places his family asks for donations to be made, according to his obituary.

Editor’s Note: Since 1996, more than 320 teenage musicians have been transformed by the Vail Jazz Workshop. Many have become professional musicians, including six returning to Vail this Labor Day weekend to perform as the Alumni Sextet...

Mission District icon La Doña released a new “Paloma No Vuelve Amar” and pianist Jon Jang will be at the Community Music Center on Thursday.

"She was a real entertainer and I would put her in the stage presence class of a Sarah Vaughan," said jazz historian Richard Vacca.

As the jazz club unveils its new location in the Denver Performing Arts Complex, local musicians reminisce on its history.

Tonight`s Jazz Feature is a kind of meeting between east and west. The leader is the great tenor saxophonist Harold Land and he is paired with trumpeter Joe Gordon who had moved to Los Angeles from Boston and guitarist Wes Montgomery who was living for a time in San Francisco. Those three made up the western contingent. The eastern group consists of Barry Harris on piano, Sam Jones on bass and Louis Hayes on drums who all were Cannonball Adderley`s rhythm section and one of the best. This adds u...