Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes

The 40 th annual Sarasota Jazz Festival scrapped all of its main-stage concerts earlier this month because of pandemic concerns, but ma...

Joe Lovano The jazz community has a proud tradition of jumping in to help out a great cause, particularly when it involves one of their ...

After baking in the sun and wandering between the three scattered stages at the Newport Jazz Festival for seven or eight hours, nearly all...

Scott Hamilton (Blue Duchess photo) Scott Hamilton, now a renowned jazz tenor saxophonist, was 15, playing harmonica and leading a blues...