Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes

Pianist Johnny Varro cut his musical teeth on the classic swing side of jazz in the late 1940s, working over the next few decades with some ...

While its formal 2019-20 concert season doesn't start until October 14, the Charlotte County Jazz Society whetted the appetites of about...

Billy Marcus Pianist Billy Marcus headlined the South County Jazz Club's 2018-19 season-closing concert on Wednesday, April 4 in Ven...

Anybody who didn’t hear enough music aboard the 2019 edition of The Jazz Cruise only has themselves to blame. The offerings were plentiful ...

Pianist Rony Khoury hails from the Dominican Republic, where his sheer talent at the keyboard has caught many an eye - and ear. With good re...

To many fans, Danny Sinoff is a crooner for the new millennium. But to savvy jazz listeners, his piano chops are just fascinating. Maybe mor...

You'd have to look far and wide to find anyone matching Bobby van Deusen's talents at the piano. He's a master of a wide range o...

Brett Williams, Brandon Goldberg Miami-area pianist Brandon Goldberg has soaked up jazz like a sponge takes on water. And he’s been ...

Steve Allee Pianist Steve Allee is a musical quadruple threat - as a player, arranger, composer and educator. All four of those roles we...

Jazz and classical music rarely intersect. But they make interesting bedfellows when brought together by two musicians who are well at ease ...

Clarinetist Bud Leeds was in fine company - and good spirits - for the South County Jazz Club's first concert of the 2017-2018 season on...

Johnny Varro played with the elder statesmen of classic swing jazz  in the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s, working with Eddie Condon, Bobby Hackett, R...

Suffice it to say, Geri Allen will be there in spirit. Geri Allen at Newport, August 2004 The pianist had been scheduled to perform ...

The depth and breadth of pianist, arranger and composer Dick Hyman’s career seems astonishing by any musical standards. Most aspects of his...

Chuchito Valdes Latin fire is in pianist Chuchito Vald é s' genes. He's the son of Chucho Vald és and grandson of the late Bebo...

Dick Hyman Either as a snowbird or a full-time resident, pianist-composer-arranger Dick Hyman has lived 30 miles up the road in Venice f...

Jim Roberts You experience far more than great playing when pianist Jim Roberts brings his sextet to town. That was clear on Monday, Nov...

Pianist Cyrus Chestnut shared an keen understanding of jazz improvisation at a South County Jazz Club concert in Sarasota FL on Saturday, M...

Drummer-singer Patricia Dean brought her trio to the South County Jazz Club's matinee concert series at the Venice FL Art Center Thursda...

Leeds, Van Deusen Clarinetist Bud Leeds always pulls together a band that puts on a good show, you just never know walking in the door w...