I'm looking a bit further out.  Had the time to start putting some October gigs in, so went ahead and did it. Check out the Webster Jazz Festival on Friday and Saturday.  Hopefully… Read More

I'm posting this just before I go out to check out some music in town.  After the fold you will find the listings for live jazz gigs in and around Rochester for the next seven days, pl… Read More

That's what we do around here.  After the fold you will find the listings for live jazz gigs in and around Rochester for the next seven days, plus listings through the rest of August a… Read More

Feeling better and hoping to get out to hear some music soon. After the fold you will find the listings for live jazz gigs in and around Rochester for the next seven days, plus listings thr… Read More

After the fold you will find the listings for live jazz gigs in and around Rochester for the next seven days, plus listings through the rest of June and now into July. Please note that the… Read More

Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven,” John Lennon’s “Imagine,” the Madonna album “Like a Virgin,” and the theme music from the Nintendo vide… Read More

Even though I'm out of town for a bit, it's good to know there's still some live jazz back home (there's not a lot here....).  After the fold you will find the listings for live jazz gi… Read More

After the fold you will find the listings for live jazz gigs in and around Rochester for the next seven days, plus through December and what I've been told about in January. I've also added… Read More

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Below are the listings for live jazz (and some blues) gigs in and around Rochester for the next seven days, plus those I know about through the rest of the month and into September.  W… Read More

Below are the listings for live jazz (and some blues) gigs in and around Rochester for the next seven days, plus those I know about through the rest of August and a start on September. &nbs… Read More

Below are the listings for live jazz (and some blues) gigs in and around Rochester for the next seven days, plus those I know about through the rest of July. I'll start adding August dates… Read More

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With a surge and the variant news, I'm seeing a clear trend and it ain't good. However, despite there is still some live jazz out there... but if you go, be safe!   Below are the gigs… Read More

Toute la presse en parle. Le nouvel enregistrement du saxophoniste Archie Shepp, en duo avec le pianiste Jason Moran, est une petite merveille, madeleine de Proust pour celles et ceux qui… Read More

This article contains affiliate links from which I can earn affiliate commissionsMost jazz critics consider Roy "Little Jazz" Eldridge as the successor of Louis Armstrong in the evolution of… Read More

This article contains affiliate links from which I can earn affiliate commissionsLouis Armstrong is one of the most important figures in the history of Western popular music, and likely the… Read More

A selection of famous swing songs guaranteed to get you moving Swing – a style of music so firmly rooted in the 1930s that the very sound is synonymous with unemployment, poverty, and… Read More

Fabulous Mobile Device Accessories Top Albums by Coleman Hawkins Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.Hawkins was t… Read More