Event Previews

A second annual jazz and swing mini-festival has been announced by the popular “Live at the Shrine” dance committee. The event, titled Jump, Jive & Jazz,

Richard Barnes returns with his 12 pc 1920s-30s jazz band the Blackbird Society Orchestra to celebrate the 10th Annual Eddie Lang Day Philadelphia. The Tri State

Veronica Swift and the Emmet Cohen Trio have been working together a lot recently. They specialize in Great American Songbook material, presenting an authentic mix

Did you watch the record party scene in Ghostworld with longing envy? Then a new trend in organized 78 RPM spinning sessions might be right

A Salute to the ’90s This June, we celebrated the 75th anniversary of D Day. Those who lived during World War II were touched by

We’re all familiar with the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and the French Quarter Festival, two of the Crescent City’s most popular celebrations of

Everyone knows that people the world over associate Roswell, New Mexico with the UFO phenomenon and purported crash of a “flying saucer” back in 1947.

Last year we learned about an annual event in Sunnyside Queens too late to help spread the word. But this year we’re on it, and

Every Saturday Evening in July, 8:00 PM HOT SUMMER NIGHTS! will feature a wide range of outstanding jazz and swing musicians with unforgettable al fresco

Musicians from overseas relocate to the United States to make it big and play jazz in the land of its birth. It’s a tradition as

As the 4th of July fireworks fade from the sky, a contingent of St. Louisans and jazz fanatics from over 30 other cities will prepare

Alida Meijers has been hosting traditional jazz cruises and tours since 1984. Originally from the Netherlands, she and husband Pieter, who led the High Sierra

GRUGELFEST 2019 will be held Friday-Sunday, September 20-22 at the Radisson Hotel at The University of Toledo, 3100 Glendale Avenue in Toledo.  Special GRUGELFEST room rates apply,

Evergreen, Colo., is about 1400 miles from New Orleans. But July 26-28, the scenic mountain community will become “Bourbon Street with Altitude” as it hosts

Most enduring events have an interesting beginning, and many of you have asked how our festival came to be. So here’s a brief tale of

New York features a multitude of venues for hot jazz throughout the year with themed events being a local specialty, but the short summer offers

The Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, located in Katonah, NY, an hour or so north of New York City,  is known for concerts

An Evening with Gregory Porter will kick off the 2019 Elkhart Jazz Festival Friday, June 21st at the Lerner Theatre in downtown Elkhart. For Porter, the

Two of the hottest brassmen of the Jazz Age – Bix Beiderbecke and Louis Armstrong – will be fondly remembered this month at two separate

Two upcoming events in New York City highlight the growing public appetite for swing dancing and how creativity can be used to draw crowds to

From the San Diego Jazz Fest & Swing X 2017 For the past 38 years, the appetizing combination of turkey and jazz has drawn jazz

April 1 will mark the 100th anniversary of the death of ragtime composer Scott Joplin, who died in a Manhattan sanitarium in 1917, at age