Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes

Swedish pop-folk singer Sofia Talvik has just started a two-year Unit ed States tour, in which she plans to bring her fine music - mostly o...

If you're a Newport Folk Festival fan, or ardent fan of one if its acts this year, don't plan on showing up without a ticket, figuri...

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...

Jazz festival fans can rejoice with something tangible in Newport. The 50th anniversary edition of the folk festival – George Wein’s Folk Fe...

George Wein has added a great variety of musicians to his lineup for the jazz festival in Newport in August, scheduled August 7-9 and called...

George Wein's Newport return this summer to produce jazz and folk festivals in the city where his festival legacy began has cleared its ...

There will be more to celebrate - and enjoy - when the 30th edition of the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal is held July 1 to 12. ...

George Wein wasn't about to let Festival Network LLC's financial woes put an end to the two festivals in Newport, Rhode Island that ...

Keyboard player Marco Benevento is on the cutting edge of blending modern and classic rock with the art of jazz improvisation, often in an o...

Will there be jazz and folk festivals in Newport next summer, and JVC Jazz Festivals elsewhere in the world? If so, who will be producing th...