Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes

T aking note of newcomers, up-and-comers The Saratoga Performing Arts Center’s annual jazz festival in bucolic Saratoga Springs, N.Y., is...

Art Pepper, Unreleased Art, Vol. 5: Stuttgart (Widow’s Taste) This latest in Laurie Pepper’s series of previous ly unr eleased Art Pepper r...

Congratulations to all of this year's winners at the 14th annual Jazz Journalists Association's Jazz Awards, which many consider the...

How much musical weight do you give to trumpeter Miles Davis’s 30 years of recordings for Columbia? Everyone may have a different answ...

Yotam, Resonance (JLP) Tel Aviv-born, New York-based guitarist Yotam Silberstein is out with his third disc as a leader. It’s a gem, and h...

Two nights before concluding phase one of his Orchestrion tour, Pat Metheny stopped by Boston to provide a glimpse of his project to make am...

This is the 16th consecutive year that faculty members from Boston’s Berklee College of Music will jet to San Juan for one of its (now globa...

Aldo Romano, Origine (Dreyfus Jazz) If triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13, the bes t descriptive for Italy-born, French-reared A...

More often than not, one of the great aspects of the jazz festival format is a listener’s opportunity to hear fresh talent - players who for...

How do you top your 30th anniversary blowout? At th e Montreal International Jazz Festival , you don’t try to go one be tter intentionally...

Jacky Terrasson, Push (Concord Jazz) “Push” is the perfect name for pianist Jacky Terrasson’s Concord debut. He’s a jazz adventurer who pus...

Singer, actress, dancer and civil rights activist Lena Horne turns 93 this June 30. She hasn’t performed since the early 1990s and has been ...

My review of last weekend's 33rd edition of the Cape M ay Jazz Festival, with multiple photos, was posted tod ay on JAZZTIMES.COM . The...

Joe Chambers, Horace to Max (Savant) Drummer Joe Chambers has found a way to tip his hat to a range of classic and contemporary jazz compos...

It’s time to open your wallets, jazz fans, for two great, intertwined causes. The Jazz Foundation of America is getting ready to present its...

Lisa Engelken, Caravan (Little Angel) Lisa Engelken may not have a household name when it comes to jazz singers, but this CD proves that she...

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

Anyone with a solid interest in the music who is within an hour of Providence RI ought to make a visit to a neighboorhood knotty-pine bar in...

Jazz festival regulars at Newport and its longtime progeny, in upstate New York can start figuring out their challenging dance between multi...