Melhor do que isso só mesmo o silêncio, melhor do que o silêncio só joão (The only thing better than [music] is silence, the only thing better than silence is João)"Caetano…
WGBH's Eric Jackson has truly been the voice of jazz in Boston for more than forty years. This year, Boston Jazz Week centers around a celebration of Eric's four decades at the heart of the…
This year's theme, "Jazz: A Peace Supreme," is a bit diffuse"and so is the roster of performers, headlined by drummer Billy Hart and vocalist Al Jarreau.
With summer having already arrived thermally and due to arrive astronomically early next week, New England offers a geographically diverse menu of jazz festivals to wrap up the month.
From Providence to Burlington by way of Cambridge, the New England jazz festival season is now underway.
From Roxbury to Mattapan to Beacon Hill to City Hall, new and not-so-new events are becoming annual features of Boston Jazz Week.
From noon to six on Saturday, September 26, Boston's premier outdoor jazz event, the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival, returns to Boston's South End for a fifteenth year.
The profound impact of Ornette Coleman can be seen in the reactions of the music world to his passing.
Get your maps and open up your calendar app"it's time to plan your summer of jazz in New England. From big "destination" festivals to underappreciated local gems, there's something for ever…
Jazz Week 2015 shines a spotlight on the jazz scene"historic and current"in Boston's core African American community of Roxbury (and adjoining Mattapan and Dorchester).
"With Cream I and Ginger could play free jazz as a rhythm section, while Eric played the Ornette Coleman role. However, we didn't tell Eric that!"
Boston's premier outdoor jazz event, the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival, returns to Boston's South End for a fourteenth year this Saturday, with drummer Terri Lyne Carrington back at the hel…
Cambridge and Springfield have launched promising new festivals even as some others have dropped by the wayside. Meanwhile, festivals in Northampton, Cambridge (again), Lawrence, and Newton…
The creator of the series, Mike Judge, and his team have gone to great lengths to sweat the details of the corporate landscape of San Jose and its environs. Right from the start Silicon Val…
The big "destination" jazz festivals are major events, but aficionados making vacation plans will be missing out if they don't at least take a look at the musical offerings of the smaller fe…
Jazz Week 2014′s theme of "No Walls: A salute to the power of jazz to bring people together" emphasizes the place of jazz on the world stage.
The NEC Wind Ensemble's celebrates Gunther Schuller, who has written a new work honoring Dave Brubeck for an ensemble very similar to the one he conducted in the 1960 recording of Charles M…
"He's someone who appears only once in a hundred years.""Hermeto Pascoal
As the festival season draws to a close, a look back at the 2013 BeanTown Jazz Festival.
Boston's biggest outdoor jazz event has more of a local focus his year"hardly a problem, given the wealth of talent connected to Berklee, NEC and other institutions.
The 2013 jazz festival season in New England wraps up with events in Lowell, Newton, Boston, Falmouth, Pittsfield and Holyoke.
The 2013 jazz festival season is getting into high gear as we head into mid-July. Here are some additions to the summer schedule as well as further details about previously announced events.
Sometimes what you're searching for is actually right in front of you.
Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start to summer. Beaches reopen, and the jazz festival season follows close on their heels. Indeed, the first major festival kicks off this Friday…
The jazz world says goodbye to a much-loved pianist and to the documentarian of an iconic photo.