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Byline: Michael J. West Washington has one of the richest deposits of jazz music and musicians in the United States -- a fact to which, in recent years, jazz connoisseurs [...]

The NYC Winter Jazzfest Marathon presented over 100 sets at 11 locations across two nights last weekend. I saw more than two dozen of those. That sounds like a small [...]

JAZZ IN JULY AT THE 92ND STREET Y Now in its 33rd year, this festival reliably offers an impressive smorgasbord of straight-ahead jazz. The 2017 edition gets started on Tuesday [...]

NYC Winter Jazzfest began in 2005 as a showcase, a way for arts presenters and music bookers to scope out artists for their coming seasons. The festival has outgrown that [...]

The Newport Jazz Festival will be anchored this year by the guitarist Pat Metheny, the drummer Jack DeJohnette and the vocalist Kurt Elling, among dozens of other acts, George Wein, [...]

Byline: CAROLE LIPAROTO Details: Wednesday 7 p.m. Jannus Live, 16 Second St. N, St. Petersburg. $29 and up. (727) 565-0551. If you thought a happy marriage could spoil a set [...]

WHILE the Caramoor and Litchfield festivals fill the first weekend in August with some of the finest jazz a fan can buy, Westchester will be awash in free performances throughout [...]

Once, a special event in jazz meant something warm and secretive and spontaneous: two guys who hadn't seen each other in a while, improvising several choruses together. But lately -- [...]

OVER the past decade and a half, the Litchfield Jazz Festival in Kent and the Caramoor Jazz Festival in Katonah, N.Y., have reliably presented a selection of top players. But [...]

THE BUZZ George Benson, Nikki Yanofsky and Chick Corea are among the big names scheduled for the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival's 25th anniversary season, June 25 to July 4. [...]

THE BUZZ / BREAKING ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Toronto -- After 23 years at the helm of the Toronto Jazz Festival, Jim Galloway is stepping down as artistic director, relinquishing his post [...]

Byline: J.D. Considine If you want the best of Toronto, go to Markham. Although the line sounds like something out of a Chamber of Commerce brochure, it's actually a pretty [...]

Earlier this summer, over the course of a busy week, the singer-songwriter Becca Stevens came full circle. The week began with an outdoor performance at the Montreal Jazz Festival before […]

Byline: J.D. CONSIDINE Toronto prides itself on being a big, multicultural city, so it's no surprise that its annual jazz festival would boast impressive diversity in terms of both music [...]

Byline: Marsha Lederman Vancouver -- Herbie Hancock, the influential jazz composer, keyboardist and bandleader, will open this year's Vancouver International Jazz Festival. Hancock will perform at the Orpheum Theatre on [...]

Byline: JENNIE PUNTER; Special to The Globe and Mail The country's birthday, a statutory holiday on a Friday, central air-conditioning -- all are worth celebrating this particular Canada Day. And [...]

Byline: Mark Miller Toronto -- Indian tabla drummer Zakir Hussain and American guitarist Pat Metheny are in the spotlight at the 26th annual Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, June [...]

Byline: LASZLO BUHASZ AND JENNIFER HARDENNE The Nice Jazz Festival, one of Europe's major jazz events, takes place July 22-29 in Nice, France. The festival, which draws upwards of 45,000 [...]

Katharine Weymouth, publisher of The Washington Post and CEO of Washington Post Media, was named an honorary chair for the 7th annual DC Jazz Festival which will take place June [...]

>R A % TO CITY AND ASSIGNMENT DESKS, ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITORS: /NEWS ADVISORY/ MILES DAVIS, B.B. KING FRIDAY AT MELLON JAZZ FESTIVAL What: Mellon Jazz Festival presents Miles Davis [...]