The 2023 Charlie Parker Jazz Festival (CPJF) took place from August 20 to 27 throughout New York City. The FREE activities included a community cookout with bassist Endea Owens; Jazz In the Garden: ...

The 2023 TD James Moody Jazz Festival took place from November 3 to 19 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) and a couple of other locations in Newark, NJ. This Festival has become ...

In its 11 th year, the TD James Moody Jazz Festival was once again held largely at Newark’s New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC). This has become one of the premier autumn jazz events in the ...

At the 2024 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, clarinetist and bandleader Doreen Ketchens finished her set in the Economy Hall tent and announced her next gig: “We’ll be back on the street ...

Jazz Journalists Association “Jazz Hero Twin Cities” –Kenny Horst (photo: Andrea Canter) [Note: This article is slightly revised from the original published at www. pleasedandflipped.com. Thanks to ...

Mears Park is the epicenter of the Twin Cities Jazz Festival, June 20-21 Jazz fans and the jazz-curious have three opportunities to sample top talents from the local and international scene in the ...

On their recent tour, 82 year old keyboardist and composer emeritus Bob James and his 20-something drummer, James Adkins, have been swapping vital information. The well-traveled jazz lifer has been ...

In Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts is a 3-LP album that contains previously unreleased recordings from two 1977 concerts by Charles Mingus’ last band. The band was a quintet featuring Ricky Ford ...

Reminder: The Lead Sheet is not intended to be an exhaustive, complete listing of Twin Cities jazz. That would take a book-length article and inevitably leave out worthy gigs. I am limited here by ...

Epilogue/Prologue: Highlights of 2024, , Great Expectations for 2025 in Twin Cities Jazz ...

JT Bates hosts Monday jazz at the Icehouse in March Jorge Luis Pacheco It’s been more difficult than ever to figure out what season it is, but play it safe and just refer to this as Jazz Season. That ...