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Blue Bird Inn in Detroit spared from demolition after historic designation
January 7, 2021One of the most fabled sites in Detroit music is off the endangered list. The long-abandoned Blue Bird Inn — a vital nerve center for homegrown jazz and visiting artists during the heyday of bebop — has been ...
GoFundMe Campaign Launched to Help Save Birdland Jazz Club
January 4, 2021Yet another one of New York’s most beloved venues is in danger of closing for good. Birdland Jazz Club, a staple of the New York City jazz community since 1949, needs help with the debt it has found itself in ...
Jazz Clubs Are in Crisis
October 20, 2020For many jazz venues, shuttered because of the pandemic, live streaming is the only option they have to keep the music playing. But streaming as a revenue source doesn’t make the venues’ owners feel much better; it ...
Kurt Elling Returns To Chicago
October 16, 2020Twelve years ago, jazz singer Kurt Elling left Chicago for New York. Three months ago, he returned.The move, says Elling, was prompted not by the pandemic, which has devastated New York, but by a longstanding desire ...
Cécile McLorin Salvant Awarded 2020 MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant
October 6, 2020Jazz singer and composer Cécile McLorin Salvant has been awarded a fellowship with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She is the only musician in this year’s group of “genius grant” recipients. She ...
Netflix’s series ‘The Eddy’ is as much about family as jazz
June 12, 2020The Eddy on Netflix is a fantastic show based in modern-day Paris. The shows centers around Elliot Udo (played by André Holland), an American pianist who has exiled himself to the City of Lights to deal with a loss ...
The coronavirus is devastating a uniquely American art form
April 20, 2020Every jazz musician lost in this pandemic had a unique start that sent them on a distinct trajectory, but the sounds they made often overlapped. Read more
Jimmy Heath, NEA Jazz Master and link to bebop era of 1940s, dies at 93
January 22, 2020“When he walks into a room,” trumpeter and bandleader Wynton Marsalis once said of Jimmy Heath, “jazz history is made.” Not only was Mr. Heath one of the most accomplished saxophonists and composers of his time, but ...
Utah jazz legend Joe McQueen passes away at 100
December 13, 2019Joe McQueen, Utah’s legendary saxophonist who talked tempo changes with Charlie Parker, tried to get Count Basie to quit smoking and told Louis Armstrong that he didn’t like his style, died Saturday morning. Read More
New jazz club opening in Charlotte after nearly 20 years
November 1, 2019Larry Farber knows, in his heart of hearts, that he could be making a colossal miscalculation. Despite all of the meticulous research and planning and attention to detail the 68-year-old longtime entertainment ...
