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Mark Whitfield Mark Whitfield puts his heart and soul into his guitar playing. And as an observer, listener, you can't miss it. He bends...

After two years of pandemic-prompted cancellations, The Jazz Cruise picked up right where it left off in January 2020. This year's Janua...

All About Jazz has published my comprehensive look back at happenings in the jazz world during 2022. At more than 14,000 words, it's no...

Saxophonist and singer Valerie Gillespie added a full holiday twist to the Charlotte County Jazz Society's concert season on Monday, Dec...

‘Tis the season for the outpouring of Top 10 lists, and their many variations, for jazz, world events, etc. The jazz lists have a lot of var...

Pianist Bobby van Deusen returned to southwest Florida on Friday, November 22 with a long-overdue performance that celebrated his mastery of...

Singer Ronnie Leigh celebrated the kinship between jazz, the blues and R&B in his Monday, November 14 appearance in Punta Gorda, FL for ...

It took two and a half-years, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic lull, but alto saxophonist Charles McPherson finally got back to Artis-Naples....

A couple of months before his death on July 6, 1971, beloved jazz trumpeter and popular entertainer Louis Armstrong made what turned out to ...

Every once in a while, it is good to get a healthy reminder of what jazz is. Some people think it is a repertoire of classic material, be it...