Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes

Here’s a dose of CDs of interest, as I head out for a week of travels to Freihofer’s Jazz Festival in Saratoga NY and the Montreal Internati...

If you want to find Kodachrome after this fall, you’ll have to go see Paul Simon in concert or dig out an album. Kodak announced today that ...

One of these years, I am truly tempted to go to the Montreal International Jazz Festival strictly for its free, outdoor concerts. The great ...

Grant Geissman, Cool Man Cool (Futurism Records) With the fun-filled spirit, wide stylistic range of original material and plethora of gues...

All companies and nonprofits great and small are reassessing their viability and putting creativity to the test as they weather the effects ...

With the assistance of several nonprofits, First Lady Michelle Obama will use jazz on Monday June 15 to open the White House Music Series. T...

I just spotted this fresh posting today on JazzTimes' Web site, jazztimes.com. An Important Message From JazzTimes Management To ou...

These are indeed troubling times for the general economy – and the spillover to the jazz world was inevitable. Just as some companies and so...

When most of us outside of Canada think jazz and Montreal, we think early summer. Equipe Spectra, the organization that produces the Festiva...

Bobby Sanabria conducting the Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, Kenya Revisited Live!!! (Jazzheads) The mouthful of a ti...

June’s issue of Hot House includes my profile of tenor saxophonist Ernie Watts, who is on the road as special guest with the new tribute pr...

Mark Morgaanelli had producing events in his genes even as a 24-year-old trumpeter. For four years, starting in 1979, Morganelli ran the Jaz...

Miles Davis , That's What Happened: Live in Germany, 1987 (Eagle Rock Entertainment) This 1987 concert DVD captures Davis and his late-...

Seattle’s Garfield High School and Roosevelt High School jazz bands have been perennial top finalists and/or winners at Jazz at Lincoln Cent...

Lynne Arriale, Nuance: The Bennett Studio Sessions (Motéma) After a series of 10 highly regarded trio recordings over the past 15 years, pi...

A golden anniversary only rolls around once, so producers and promoters are smart to make the best of it. To some ears, 1959 was the greates...

Melody Gardot, My One and Only Thrill (Verve) In terms of a very intimate and endearing sound, Melody Gardot seems comparable to my ears to...