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Charlie Hunter released their collaborative album SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree via Edition Records. Featuring drummer Corey Fonville and bassist-keyboardist DJ Harrison, the full-length is a continuation of Elling’s SuperBlue collaboration with Charlie Hunter, which includes their 2021 debut full-length and their 2023 covers EP Guilty Pleasures.

The soul of New Orleans meets the vibrant energy of New York City, resulting in a collision of two iconic musical metropolises at the inaugural Jazz Festival For The Ages, Running September 2-4 in Wantagh, New York

On Sunday, July 23, Edward W. Hardy, Marsha Thompson, Phillip Bullock, Sasha Ono, and Kyle P. Walker gave a spectacular concert at the fourteenth annual Pocono Mountains Music Festival (PMMF) at the Skytop Lodge's Evergreen Ballroom.

Multi-GRAMMY award-winning vocalist Kurt Elling and guitarist/producer Charlie Hunter released their new rendition of Joni Mitchell’s “Black Crow.” The song is off their upcoming album SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree, a new full-length featuring drummer Corey Fonville and bassist-keyboardist DJ Harrison.

On June 24th, the industry lost a beloved and most interesting member of the family, and Marilyn Lester remembers her friend for Broadway World.

SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree sees Elling and Hunter reunited with drummer Corey Fonville and multi-instrumentalist DJ Harrison (both of jazz-funk fusion quintet Butcher Brown) for a kaleidoscopic collection of new songs, dynamic reinventions, and surprising covers (Joni Mitchell’s “Black Crow.'

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater have announced jazz programming running May 2 through May 14.

Multi-GRAMMY award-winning vocalist Kurt Elling and guitarist/producer Charlie Hunter announced SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree, a new full-length album featuring drummer Corey Fonville and bassist-keyboardist DJ Harrison. “Not Here / Not Now' has composition by Elling, Hunter, Fonville, and Harrison and additional lyricist Phil Galdston.

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater have released details on all jazz programming running April 25 through May 7.

Circuit Playhouse, Inc. will present 15 productions they will produce during their 2023-2024 season. 

Birdland has announced jazz programming at Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater running January 9 through January 22. Performers appearing at Birdland Jazz Club include Nicole Zuraitis, Slide Hampton Octet Celebration, Delfeayo Marsalis Uptown Jazz Orchestra, Joey Alexander Trio, Stacey Kent, Billy Hart Quartet and Adam Birnbaum Quartet.

Get the scoop on all jazz programming at Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater running January 2 through January 15.

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater are open this January with a full slate of nightly performances! See the lineup, how to get tickets, and more!

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater are open this August with a full slate of nightly performances!  At Birdland Jazz Club, catch John Pizzarelli Trio, Sam Gravitte, Alexa Tarantino Quartet, Karen Mason, Artemis, John Yao Orchestra Plays Bird, Bobby Conte, and more.

More than 200 guests gathered for a spectacular evening earlier this month at the World of Wonder Gala 2022 – The Soaring Twenties: Reaching New Heights! raising funds to support Childsplay's educational programs.

Childplay's pop culture phenomenon Schoolhouse Rock LIVE! brings its national tour back home again for a four-week run on Stage West at the Herberger Theater Center from April 23 to May 22.

The curtain will come up on an evening of imagination and wonder to benefit Childsplay at the World of Wonder Gala 2022 – The Soaring Twenties: Reaching New Heights! beginning at 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 2 at the newly renovated SRP Pera Club, 1 E. Continental Drive in Tempe.

Childplay's pop culture phenomenon Schoolhouse Rock LIVE! brings its national tour back home again for a four-week run on Stage West at the Herberger Theater Center from April 23 to May 22.           

The Growing Stage, The Children's Theatre of New Jersey, located in the Historic Palace Theatre on Route 183 in Netcong, New Jersey will present its first Studio Series of the 40th season, SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK LIVE JR.

The Emmy Award-winning 1970s Saturday morning cartoon series that taught history, grammar, math and more through clever, catchy tunes is lighting up the stage of Clarksville's oldest professional theatre this month.