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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.
When I signed up for the Jazz Fest at Sea cruise (January 2-14 out of Miami) as a paying and playing passenger on a Big
On the cover of the October issue of The Syncopated Times, we published a reminder for musicians and other readers that they had six weeks
Some familiar names were among the winners of the 5th annual “Fans Decision” Jazz Awards poll sponsored by Hot House magazine. Among the winners in
Related: Affordable Care Act 2018 Deadline Clarification for Musicians (and Others) Jazz musicians, whose occupation requires that they spend much of their time in traveling, are
At its 2017 Foo Foo Festival event, Jazz Pensacola will present An Evening of New Orleans Jazz 6:30 until 9 pm, Monday, November 13, at Phineas
The years 1910 and 1911 were physiologically rough on ragtime. On December 3, 1910, the Daily Oklahoman reported an address to the students at Wesleyan
With the cancellation of the scheduled January 2018 JazzSea cruise last month, there has been some panic and confusion among the customers of the other
The Blue Ridge Ragtime Festival, a first-time festival hosted by the Academy Center of the Arts, will be held October 5-8, 2017, in Lynchburg, Virginia.
The Campaign There is a GoFundMe fundraising campaign currently underway that hopefully would facilitate purchase of the building that has housed Hermann’s Jazz Club in
Ray Heitger, leader of the Toledo-based Cakewalkin’ Jass Band, announces that the band is about to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. Says Heitger, “We played our
On July 8, 2017, Annie and the Hedonists appeared at Arrowhead Park in Inlet, New York. The group is a vocal and instrumental quartet consisting
, Ohio honored its favorite son the weekend of June 9-11 with the grand re-opening and 40th anniversary celebration of the Ted Lewis Museum. The
Elmhurst College has honored Carl Hilding “Doc” Severinsen with an honorary Doctor of Music degree. The legendary trumpeter and bandleader was presented with the degree
New York City’s premier vintage jazz orchestra, Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks, have done very well for themselves by making good music for bad guys—on
Eric Seddon’s Hot Club If you are a jazz fan and live in or near the environs of northeast Ohio and have not yet heard
The Tucson Jazz Institute was selected the winner of the 22nd annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival held May 11-13 in
Lew Shaw admits he can’t sing and he doesn’t play an instrument. But over the past 30 years he has become a Jazz Hero as
The seventh annual Morristown Jazz & Blues Festival will be held on the Green in Morristown, New Jersey on Saturday, August 19, from noon until
There were a total of 20 individuals and groups from 13 states and the District of Columbia who were named 2017 Jazz Heroes for their
Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute will launch NYO (National Youth Orchestra) Jazz, a four-week intensive summer program for young American jazz instrumentalists (ages 16-19), in
Second Line Syracuse Mardi Gras may be over, but we can still celebrate the good-time music of old New Orleans. Second Line Syracuse, an eight-piece
Earl McKee, the Singing Cowboy with the High Sierra Jazz Band, has been dealing with some serious health issues that have required major medical expenses.
The Riverboat Stompers featuring Jimmy Mazzy is one of the four trad jazz bands performing on JazzSea Cruises’ two-week tour of the Southern Caribbean on
How’d you like to watch an up-close-and-personal conversation with the late clarinetist Kenny Davern or the pianist Marian McPartland? How about listening to Bucky Pizzarelli
