Rochester Jazz Festival

Live music has been back in Rochester. Jazz has come back as strong as ever. People have been getting out to eat, drink and enjoy merriment. And festivals have returned. But not until the nine days of the 19th edition of the CGI Rochester…

The 19th edition of the CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival returns to Rochester's East End June 17 to 25. For Rochester's music fans there's no better way to welcome summer. After two years bereft the best nine days of live music of…

CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival announced it’s plans to postpone it’s 19th annual festival till 2021. The festival came to this conclusion in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic; it was not safe to be held this year. The jazz fest…

Our annual recap of the Best of 2019 has arrived at music festivals. Just like when fans arrive at these ever-popular weekend extravaganzas, we're bright-eyed and bushy-tailed looking forward to what surprises lay around the corner. Our…

A successful 2017 Rochester International Jazz Fest is in the books. Sadly, the best week on the calendar for avid music fans in the area is now in the rear view mirror. Though the memories will live on forever. We traipsed up and down and…

Beth Hart and band opened for Gary Clark Jr. for day six of Xerox Rochester's International Jazz Festival. Hart took the stage before a sold out audience at Kodak Hall and promptly ripped into a set filled with emotion driven rock and…

Nine days. 31 club pass shows at eleven different venues. Tens of thousands of steps. A beer or two... maybe three. Distilled down for you here, are my 10 most memorable club pass series shows from the 2015 edition of the Xerox Rochester…

Award-winning actress and American Idol champ alumni Jennifer Hudson wowed a sold out house at Kodak Hall for Day 6 of Xerox's Rochester International Jazz Festival. Armed with a litany of impressive backup singers and musicians, Hudson …

Gary Clark. Jr held the headliner spot at the beautiful Kodak Hall for day six of Xerox Rochester International Jazzfest. Beth Hart opened the show and sufficiently warmed up the crowd, belting out the blues with her confident and strong…

After 8 days of the hedonistic grooves and late night debauchery of the 13th annual Xerox Rochester International Jazz Fest I felt a strong need to get my butt to church. I would not visit a standard house of worship, this church bestowed…