The Kravis Center has announced its April lineup featuring A BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL, THE NOTEBOOK, and Dance Me – The Music of Leonard Cohen.
Jazzmobile will continue its celebration of National Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM), and International Jazz Day, UNESCO's global celebration of jazz, with a night of straight ahead jazz and down home swing.
Bryant Park Picnic Performances, the free outdoor festival that welcomes all New Yorkers to experience the city's vibrant arts and culture, is making its encore on May 30 with a better-than-ever lineup.
Urban Bush Women will present SCAT! THE COMPLEX LIVES OF AL & DOT, DOT & AL ZOLLAR, a dynamic performance exploring identity and histor, at Bard Fisher Center. Learn how to purchase tickets.
“Unforgettable” is the only way for this reviewer to describe the sold-out one night performance of The Music Of Nat King Cole on April 25, 2024 at Dizzy’s Club (Jazz At Lincoln Center). The performance showcased a smattering of Cole’s vast repertoire of songs that we all know and love.
The Fisher Center at Bard has revealed SummerScape 2024’s Spiegeltent programming. Learn how to purchase tickets!
The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) has announced the line-up of the highly anticipated 12th annual TD James Moody Jazz Festival, running from November 3-19, 2023.
The Sound of (Black) Music is a vibrant one-act concert reimagining of the classic Rogers and Hammerstein musical through a utopian, afrofuturistic lens full of love. Learn more about the upcoming performance and find out how to get tickets here!
Jazz pianist Dr. Art Topilow will be joined by acclaimed singer and saxophonist Danny Bacher and vocalists Charenee Wade and Nicole Zuraitis in a tribute to the greatest female vocalists of all time. The show, which is presented by the Axelrod Performing Arts Center, will take place at 7 p.m. Sunday, August 27 on the outdoor deck at Bell Works in Holmdel.
Bryan Carter presents Jazz at Pride at Dizzy's Club, June 19-20. Bryan, a recent Tony Award winner for the orchestrations of Some Like It Hot on Broadway will host a celebration along with Broadway powerhouse Tituss Burgess and Tony Award winner J. Harrison Ghee, as they share their music, their stories, and the creative and essential impact of intentional community building.
The Kennedy Center has revealed the 2023 cohort of the 23rd iteration of its annual international professional development program Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead.
Harlem Stage has announced full programming for Spring 2023, continuing its Black Arts Movement: Examined series examining the 1960s/70s cultural movement led by Black artists, activists, and intellectuals.
Catherine Russell has a full schedule of performances slated throughout the East Coast and in Europe to finish off the year. Among them include her annual four-night residency at Dizzy’s Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center from September 29 through October 2, with two shows nightly.
The Kennedy Center’s international jazz career development program announced the participants of the 22nd annual Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead (BCJA) program. The two-week residency includes training in performance, composing, and career development.
Bryan Carter contributed orchestrations to the musical A Strange Loop, which recently earned 11 Tony Award nominations. He’s also worked with Broadway Stars like Tituss Burgess, Laura Osnes, Gavin Creel, Aaron Tveit & Ariana DeBose, and he’s currently co-orchestrating Marc Shaiman’s upcoming Broadway production of Some Like I.T Hot.
Twice GRAMMY-nominated vocalist Catherine Russell, when asked to characterize her new album, replied, 'I love romance that swings.'
The 2022 Burlington Discover Jazz Festival—produced by the Flynn in association with Burlington City Arts, and presented by New England Federal Credit Union—takes place June 3-12, with events all over Downtown Burlington and beyond. The Flynn will welcome Michael Mwenso, leader of the captivating band Mwenso & The Shakes and co-founder of Electric Root, and his creative partner Jono Gasparro as the curators for this year's festival.
In a tribute honoring the musical legacies paved by Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday and Nina Simone, Bessie, Billie, and Nina: Pioneering Women in Jazz fills Popejoy Hall with the soundtrack of a social movement on Sunday, March 28 at 3 pm.
Bard SummerScape will celebrate the uplifting spirit of Black music with Black Roots Summer, presented in association with Electric Root and organized and led by the rousing vocalist, bandleader, cultural commentator, and anti-racism educator Michael Mwenso and his longtime collaborator Jono Gasparro, former curator of Ginny’s Supper Club in Harlem.
Nine years since her last recording hit the charts, Lenora Zenzalai Helmreturns to the recording industry with FOR THE LOVE OF BIG BAND (FTLOBB)featuring Tribe Jazz Orchestrain a unique approach to the music of the big band tradition. Released on March 9 on Zenzalai Music, the new album is Helm's seventh record and her first leading a big band.
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