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The most recent new material added to the site can be found here, but that doesn’t include new entries in the Red Hot Jazz Archive, or other new-to-us material backdated to when it ran elsewhere.
In May, 2025, the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival (EE) will, as usual, convene in New York City’s Jazz at Lincoln
While perusing the recent Syncopated Times article “Art of the Duet” (TST, August 2024) about jazz duet albums recorded over the years, some reader is
Jazz Music Enthusiasts of all persuasions are invited to join together for an à la carte jazz week orchestrated by the Basin Street Regulars Hot
The 3rd Annual Glenn Jenks Ragtime Revue will take place in Midcoast Maine the weekend of October 12th-13th. In keeping with the tradition of the
Citing a diminishing population of traditional jazz fans and declining attendance, Society president and Festival director Helen Daley released a statement that the upcoming Arizona
Beloved teacher, clarinetist, and bandleader Don Cantwell celebrated his 100th birthday with 100 friends, family, and past and current students at Unity Hall in Barneveld,
Will Anderson has written a book titled SONGBOOK SUMMIT: 15 Pioneers of American Sound that is scheduled for release in September. According to the author,
On Sunday, July 7, at the Townsend Estate in New Haven CT, family and friends of Joel Schiavone gathered to remember the life and times
Where do we learn about love? About hate? About selfishness? About generosity? We learn from our parents. We learn from our friends. From our Clergy.
The Syncopated Times could use some new subscribers right now, and we’re offering a free CD to every reader who orders a new print subscription
The Basin Street Regulars have two truly outstanding events coming up in July. The incredible Midiri Brothers are making the trip to California to perform
“A jazz festival not like the others”! Why is that ? Well, first of all the setting: a small, sleepy French village in the middle
In a Press Release dated May 3, 2024, Nina Buck, owner of Palm Court Jazz Café in New Orleans, made the following announcement: I am
June 7th will be Bandcamp Friday this month and my hope is to send our readers to a website that all fans of hot jazz,
If you gave me a hundred dollars, I would be pleasantly surprised. If someone lives for 100 years that would be miraculous to me. If
As Summer approaches, we celebrate Irish Month my thoughts turn to my grandfather, M.K. “Moe” Jerome, whom those Warner Brothers called “The Irish Bard.” Moe
Portland, Oregon Jazz Master Rebecca Kilgore is experiencing “cognitive decline” as her health has worsened over the past year, according to her husband, trumpeter Dick
When Paper Mill Playhouse, the State Theater of New Jersey, announced their 2023-2024 season, the production I was most looking forward to was the musical
Many TST readers, like me, are of an age that we can recall Pearl Harbor, the camps at Auschwitz, and the atrocities of the Japanese
Wham Re-Bop-Boom-Bam: The Swing Jazz of Eddie Durham premiered February 1st on many public television stations nationwide. The 60-minute documentary has been receiving considerable praise
Dr. Rebecca Imhauser has just published her third book on Downtown Sedalia, Missouri, titled All Around Downtown: Volume 2. This publication includes the West side
Probably most musicians have played in strange venues at one time or another. Over the years I have played with various bands in some odd
For the past 14 years, Andrew Greene’s Peacherine Ragtime Society Orchestra (www.peacherineragtime.com) has been performing and preserving culturally important American popular music, namely Ragtime, across
Multi-award-winning instrumentalist /vocalist/bandleader Cynthia Sayer has been awarded the prestigious 2023 Steve Martin Banjo Prize for Excellence in Four-String Banjo. The award was made public
