With the success of the 50th Anniversary event, Festival Productions Inc. quickly began work on the 2005 Festival. Like the…
Multi-instrumentalist Taja Cheek, who records under the moniker L'Rain, creates a unique experience in Fatigue. The album is kaleidoscopic and…
Far too often concert films depict performances as just an insular moment in time. While Jazz on A Summer’s Day,…
During her recording career thus far, Jen Shyu has drawn on a deep well of song, fable, and poetry from…
Nobel physicist Erwin Schrödinger once noted that “[i]f a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually…
An intense and unceasing downpour left a twenty-eight-year-old George Wein with the difficult question of whether to abruptly cancel his…
After a year canceled by the COVID-19 pandemic, the historic Newport Jazz Festival has announced it will be presenting the…
In the four decades since the Newport Jazz festival first took place in 1954, it became a global brand with…
In 1960, Creed Taylor founded Impulse! Records, which he dubbed "The New Wave in Jazz." While over time, Impulse! established…
The 1990s was a period of change. The geopolitical order in place for nearly half a century ended with the…