Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes

Here is a rundown of noteworthy jazz events, principally in the Sarasota to Naples territory, in January and February. Nicki Parrott ...

Best wishes for a very Merry Christmas 2014 and joyous New Year from the Jazz Notes staff. This year we share some vintage musical ...

Nate Najar Guitarist Nate Najar brought his jazz holiday show to Sarasota on Saturday evening with special guest Harry Allen. The South ...

The South County Jazz Club's matinee concert at the Venice FL Art Center on Thursday, December 18 showed how much fun jazz can be when i...

Stein Malvey, Curtis Calderon The Four Freshmen have been straddling the jazz and pop genres for 66 years nonstop, though the quartet ha...

Pianist Johnny Varro is best known for his interpretations of vintage jazz, most of it dating to the 1920s through the '40s. But Friday ...

Greg Abate High-energy jazz doesn't describe the full feeling of listening to hard bop saxophonist Greg Abate in live performance be...

Th is the season for the outpouring of Top 10 lists, and their many variations, for jazz, world events, etc. The jazz lists always have a ...

Jazz Times.com has posted excerpts from my new book, “Jazz in the Key of Light,” that spotlight nine of its 80 featured musicians. The cof...

When you’ve got a piano marvel in the house, you wind him up and let him go – and then go along for the ride. That was the case Thursday whe...

I walked into this afternoon's jazz concert at the Englewood (FL) Art Center expecting it to be a B-3 kind of afternoon with the Saras...

There will be book signing/meet the author events this weekend for "Jazz in the Key of Light" in two Southwest Florida locations...

Johnny Varro Pianist Johnny Varro seems most at home in obscure jazz material - not only 50 or more years old, but in some cases, obscur...

Taking a closer look at CD’s by Omer Avital, Nancy Kelly, and Gabriel Espinosa & Hendrick Meurkens …

June Garber Transformative moments in life have an impact on music. Sometimes they inspire it. Sometimes they underscore the meaning wit...

Taking a closer look at CD’s by the Hutchinson Andrew Trio, the Mike Longo Trio and Marianne Solivan….

The 2014-15 jazz concert season is under way. Here is a rundown of noteworthy jazz events, principally in the Sarasota to Naples territ...

The Charlotte County Jazz Society opened its 25th anniversary season Monday night with a double concert featuring Dave Pruyn and Paulette Pe...