Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes

Salinger-Ridley, Ko, Jensen, Zamora, Barnick * Building your jazz skills isn’t just about playing your instrument, singing your songs, d...

Larry Monroe (Photo by Phil Farnsworth) Larry Monroe helped shape and expand the reach of Boston-based Berklee College of Music ove...

T aking note of newcomers, up-and-comers The Saratoga Performing Arts Center’s annual jazz festival in bucolic Saratoga Springs, N.Y., is...

This is the 16th consecutive year that faculty members from Boston’s Berklee College of Music will jet to San Juan for one of its (now globa...

For those naysayers and/or moldy figs who say, perhaps tongue-in-cheek, that jazz is dead, don’t buy it. The music isn’t even on life suppor...

There is a lot of programming diversity going on near and far for jazz and jazz venues in September. These caught my interest. I know I will...

A jazz-related gathering in Boston next weekend will be a hang of sorts for thousands, but not on the wide range of levels as the gone-but-n...