Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes

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...

Kenny Washington California-based singer Kenny Washington wowed the crowd Wednesday night, November 18, when he was special guest with t...

The 2015-16 jazz concert season is underway and will continue through May, bolstered by the gradual arrival of the snowbirds. Here is a...

Jerry Stawski Pianist Jerry Stawski's sextet brought more than all-star chops to its Charlotte County Jazz Society concert in Port C...

Forty years ago, pianist Claude Bolling shook up the jazz and classical music worlds a bit with his Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio re...

Taking a look at new CDs by Randy Brecker, Shai Maestro, Bob Merrrill and Dan Trudell...

The Charlotte County Jazz Society opened its 2015-16 season with a concert that celebrated the depth and breadth of the jazz canon with crea...

Danny Sinoff Singer-pianist Danny Sinoff let his piano chops carry most of the load Thursday when his trio opened the South County Jazz ...

George Wein  When you are turning 90, the celebration begins early. So jazz festival producer George Wein certainly can have a 90 th bi...

Phil Woods Word spread very quickly through the jazz community this afternoon that alto saxophonist and NEA Jazz Master (Class of 2007) ...

Taking a look at new CDs by Joe Alterman, Don Braden, Laszlo Gardony, Paul Keeling and Wolfgang Lackerschmid….

Tom the Jazzman at Newport, 8-31-2015 Jazz lost one of its finest ambassadors this holiday weekend. Broadcaster "Tom the Jazzman...

William Evans Subbing for vacationing drummer-singer Patricia Dean's band, pianist William Evans brought his Tampa Bay-area trio to ...

The 2015-16 jazz concert season will start heating up in southwest Florida in September and continue through May, mirroring the gradu...

Justin Brown You could call this one Jazz on Sunny Days.  Eyewear spotted on the various 2015 Newport Jazz Festival stages last weeke...

My 2015 Newport Jazz Festival primary photo gallery has been posted at JazzTimes.com. Take a stroll through it and enjoy. Here's a direc...

Tom Harrell The 2015 edition of the Newport Jazz Festival, granddaddy of them all, was one of the finest in  recent memory... with spect...

Want a great summer read that you'll find hard to put down?  Check out novelist Mary Morris's fine new work, " The Jazz Palac...

Jazz singers are in today’s spotlight. Taking a look at a variety of stunning new CDs by Thana Alexa, Keri Johnsrud, Gillian Margot, Joanna...

Taking a look at new CDs by Pat Bianchi, Brian Charette, Jason Miles & Ingrid Jensen, Josh Nelson and Donald Vega….

There is pretty much something for every jazz fan at the 2015 Newport Jazz Festival this July 31-August 2, no matter your stylistic or demog...

The jazz concert season is pretty much gone in Florida from May until the snowbirds start returning in the fall. While there are regular clu...

Taking a look at new CDs by Tony Adamo, Dave Bass, Maria Schneider, Chris Washburne and Kenny Werner….

Congratulations to the many winners announced and awarded yesterday at the Jazz Journalists Association's 2015 JJA Jazz Awards event at ...

The best businesses – and arts organizations – don’t stand still. They find ways to enhance what they do. They making the experience better ...

Salinger-Ridley, Ko, Jensen, Zamora, Barnick * Building your jazz skills isn’t just about playing your instrument, singing your songs, d...

Guitars and saxes aplenty. Taking a closer look at CDs by Russell Malone, Hailey Niswanger, Bjørn Solli, Dave Stryker and Doug Webb…...

Miles Davis Last August, the storied Newport Jazz Festival, granddaddy of the outdoor music festival format, celebrated the 60 th anni...

William Evans Pianist William Evans, who splits his year between Florida's Gulf Coast and teaching music in Switzerland, was at JD...

How do you keep Dixieland jazz from being mere repertory music? Trombonist Herb Bruce's approach is one way to go. As presented by his H...

Taking a closer look at new CDs by Greg Abate, Duchess, Bill O'Connell, and Ryan Truesdell's Gil Evans Project....

Jon Faddis Trumpeter Jon Faddis' guest appearance with the Naples (FL) Philharmonic Jazz Orchestra on Wednesday, April 1 had all th...

Sunday afternoon's concert by the Naples Jazz Orchestra outside the Boca Grande FL Community Center was musically excellent - and a bit...

Brazilian jazz guitarist Diego Figueiredo is a musical talent to take note of. Many notes, in fact. Figueiredo  (pronounced fig-a-reed-o) ...

If you are going to have a vocal doppelganger, who better than Frank Sinatra? Walt Andrus Such is the case for singer Walt Andrus, who...

Judi Glover Judi and Alex Glover worked the cruise ships and the casinos in Las Vegas and Atlantic City for more than two decades. Eigh...