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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — The stage at Saratoga Performing Arts Center will soon be filled with entertainment and fans again as the 2021 Freihofer's® Saratoga Jazz Festival begins next month. Saratoga Performing Arts Center and Absolutely Live Entertainment announce the return of the 2021 Freihofer's® Saratoga Jazz Festival, marking the first live performances on SPAC's stage since the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered arts venues last spring. The festival will be headlined by Dianne Reeves, Cecile McLorin Salvant, Christian McBride's New Jawn, Al Di Meola, Joey Alexander and Artemi...

He performed with John Coltrane and Art Blakey and was named an NEA Jazz Master.

• Jan 7, 2010 When the National Endowment for the Arts informed Kenny Barron that he'd been named a Jazz Master — that's the highest honor in jazz that the nation bestows — "I was elated and surprised," Barron says. "And then I kept thinking, 'Damn, am I really this old?' "

• Jan 7, 2010 When the National Endowment for the Arts informed Kenny Barron that he'd been named a Jazz Master — that's the highest honor in jazz that the nation bestows — "I was elated and surprised," Barron says. "And then I kept thinking, 'Damn, am I really this old?' "

Public Broadcasting for Eastern New Mexico and West Texas from Eastern New Mexico University.