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Carnegie Hall, a venue synonymous with musical greatness, will once again serve as the celestial stage for a transcendent evening of music. On May 16, Absolutely Live Entertainment presents COSMIC MUSIC: The Celestial Songs of Alice…

This year’s two-day Northwest Jazz Festival is set to begin on Aug. 22 in Lewiston, offering visitors with a grand celebration of a century of jazz music.  Dan Wilson Organ Trio. Photo courtesy of JazzBuffalo. The festival,…

The Rochester International Jazz Festival has announced their 22nd season’s artist lineup ahead of their performances from June 20 to 28 in downtown Rochester.  This year’s headliners at Eastman Theatre’s Kodak Hall include Smokey…

Buffalo-based jazz guitarist Adam Bronstein and band ABtrio has announced a spring tour, including performances in Ithaca and Buffalo during March and May. Abtrio features Bronstein, bassist James Benders and drummer Marco…

Esperanza Spalding, the Portland-born bassist and singer, performed a night of shapeshifting avant-garde jazz at the Blue Note on Wednesday, February 19. The hour-and-a-half set was part of a 12-night, two-show-a-night run at the West…

Fievel Is Glauque, the New York-Brussels duo of Zach Phillips and Ma Clément, played an hour and a half of bold, raucous bold jazz-pop at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, Thursday, February 6. The band opened the set with rocky ballad…

Yuto Mitomi, a New York City-based jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer, self-releases his third album Epicycle on Friday February 7. The album’s eight tracks, which play with themes of the movements of celestial bodies, the weather…

Take a peek at what the Buffalo AKG Art Museum’s 2025 Art of Jazz Series lineup has to offer for the year ahead. The Buffalo AKG Art Museum is one of the oldest museums dedicated to modern and contemporary works, and dates as the…

Jazz stormed Manhattan on Friday, January 10, as 50 bands played across nine venues for Winter Jazz Fest’s Manhattan Marathon.  Amyra León; Photo Credit: Aidan Lukomnik With bands playing for more than eight hours in venues across…

On April 29, 1899, Edward Kennedy Ellington was born in Washington D.C.. Both of his parents were musicians, and so Ellington began his piano studies at the age of seven. Due to his easygoing nature, his friends began calling him "Duke." …