Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes

Someone's impact on others is a more meaningful measure of a life well-lived than the number of years they spend on the planet. That not...

The area jazz scene is heating up for its winter-spring season when most of the snowbirds are back in Florida. Here’s a preview of some o...

The snowbirds won’t be back in Florida in full force until January, but the earlybirds have begun trickling in. That’s another way of sayi...

As five more musicians formally receive their NEA Jazz Masters awards in New York tonight in the 30th such annual presentation, comes word t...

I had a long conversation with trumpeter Jimmy Owens in preparation for a feature in the January issue of Hot House , which is just out. He ...

Two announcements this week underscored the importance of partnerships in building or sustaining the jazz audience - and keeping the music f...

Just as we emerge from the winter doldrums, there’s a lot of jazz appreciation going on throughout April. In 2001, The Smithsonian launched ...

Just as New York City’s attention will be focused on a bubbling array of jazz choices in late June with return of a George Wein-produced jaz...

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...

Once in a while, jazz and popular culture conveniently cross paths. And how fitting that it was on the sporting world’s biggest stage last w...

The three M’s headlined above are the prime ingredients in an exhibition that’s making its only North American appearance through March 14 i...

Remember the halcyon days when to be considered a university, you had to have six or seven accredited colleges as well as graduate and profe...