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The JME team parses through the lineup and picks the best jazz on offer at the 2024 Jacksonville Jazz Festival.

Tonights Jazz Feature is a belated tribute to the Birthday of bassist/pianist/composer/iconoclast/ Charles Mingus. Mingus was born on Earth Day, April 22, 1922 in Nogales, Arizona and died in Cuernavaca, Mexico on January 5, 1979 from ALS. This album on tonights Jazz Feature is his first for Columbia Records and it literally brought Mingus out of the Jazz underground and into the forefront. It was also his best selling album and widened his audience by leaps and bounds. The album is one of the m...

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He will turn 73 in March and he has just won three Grammys. But that is not going to slow down the maestro. Ustad Zakir Hussain is as busy with his Hindustani classical and fusion projects as he was when he started his career nearly six decades ago.

World-renowned jazz master saxophonist John Handy, a McClymond’s High School graduate, was presented with a Mayor of Oakland Proclamation declaring Feb. 12, as John Handy Day in the city. Handy is most notably known as the featured saxophonist for Charles Mingus on “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” from the album “Mingus Ah Um” (1959) and on “Hard Work” from his own album “Hard Work” (1976). | By Conway Jones World-renowned jazz master saxophonist John Handy, a McClymond’s High School g...

Bay Area pianist Larry Vuckovich comes to Yoshi's in Oakland to pay tribute to sax legend Dexter Gordon.

Bay Area pianist Larry Vuckovich comes to Yoshi's in Oakland to pay tribute to sax legend Dexter Gordon.

Picturesque landscapes, perfect portraits, and everything in between. This year’s Farmers Weekly Photography Competition has seen hoards of inspiring

Danute Veronika  Handy Danute "Donna" Veronika Handy (née Bajoraitis) passed away on Oct. 21, 2023 due to complications from injuries sustained in a car

Kudos to Jackson for this year’s lineup. I thought it was great before going in, and think it was even greater after the fact.