Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Melhor do que isso só mesmo o silêncio, melhor do que o silêncio só joão (The only thing better than [music] is silence, the only thing better than silence is João)—Caetano Veloso ("…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:12PMFriday, April 20, 2018
WGBH's Eric Jackson has truly been the voice of jazz in Boston for more than forty years. This year, Boston Jazz Week centers around a celebration of Eric's four decades at the heart of the…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:54PMFriday, September 23, 2016
This year's theme, "Jazz: A Peace Supreme," is a bit diffuse—and so is the roster of performers, headlined by drummer Billy Hart and vocalist Al Jarreau.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:46PMFriday, June 17, 2016
With summer having already arrived thermally and due to arrive astronomically early next week, New England offers a geographically diverse menu of jazz festivals to wrap up the month.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:52PMSaturday, June 4, 2016
From Providence to Burlington by way of Cambridge, the New England jazz festival season is now underway.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:32PMSunday, April 24, 2016
From Roxbury to Mattapan to Beacon Hill to City Hall, new and not-so-new events are becoming annual features of Boston Jazz Week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:12AMThursday, September 24, 2015
From noon to six on Saturday, September 26, Boston’s premier outdoor jazz event, the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival, returns to Boston’s South End for a fifteenth year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:56PMFriday, June 12, 2015
The profound impact of Ornette Coleman can be seen in the reactions of the music world to his passing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:26PMSaturday, May 30, 2015
Get your maps and open up your calendar app—it's time to plan your summer of jazz in New England. From big "destination" festivals to underappreciated local gems, there's something for ev…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:20PMFriday, April 24, 2015
Jazz Week 2015 shines a spotlight on the jazz scene—historic and current—in Boston's core African American community of Roxbury (and adjoining Mattapan and Dorchester).
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:19PMSunday, November 2, 2014
"With Cream I and Ginger could play free jazz as a rhythm section, while Eric played the Ornette Coleman role. However, we didn't tell Eric that!"
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:06PMMonday, September 22, 2014
Boston's premier outdoor jazz event, the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival, returns to Boston's South End for a fourteenth year this Saturday, with drummer Terri Lyne Carrington back at the hel…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:48PMSaturday, July 26, 2014
Cambridge and Springfield have launched promising new festivals even as some others have dropped by the wayside. Meanwhile, festivals in Northampton, Cambridge (again), Lawrence, and Newton…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:50PMFriday, June 6, 2014
The creator of the series, Mike Judge, and his team have gone to great lengths to sweat the details of the corporate landscape of San Jose and its environs. Right from the start Silicon Val…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:03AMThursday, May 22, 2014
The big "destination" jazz festivals are major events, but aficionados making vacation plans will be missing out if they don't at least take a look at the musical offerings of the smaller fe…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:56PMThursday, April 24, 2014
Jazz Week 2014′s theme of “No Walls: A salute to the power of jazz to bring people together” emphasizes the place of jazz on the world stage.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:23PMWednesday, February 12, 2014
The NEC Wind Ensemble's celebrates Gunther Schuller, who has written a new work honoring Dave Brubeck for an ensemble very similar to the one he conducted in the 1960 recording of Charles M…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:43PMMonday, December 9, 2013
"He's someone who appears only once in a hundred years."—Hermeto Pascoal
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:06PMWednesday, October 16, 2013
As the festival season draws to a close, a look back at the 2013 BeanTown Jazz Festival.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:19AMWednesday, September 25, 2013
Boston's biggest outdoor jazz event has more of a local focus his year—hardly a problem, given the wealth of talent connected to Berklee, NEC and other institutions.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:53PMFriday, September 20, 2013
The 2013 jazz festival season in New England wraps up with events in Lowell, Newton, Boston, Falmouth, Pittsfield and Holyoke.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:53PMWednesday, July 17, 2013
The 2013 jazz festival season is getting into high gear as we head into mid-July. Here are some additions to the summer schedule as well as further details about previously announced events.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:42PMSunday, July 14, 2013
Sometimes what you're searching for is actually right in front of you.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:37PMFriday, May 31, 2013
Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start to summer. Beaches reopen, and the jazz festival season follows close on their heels. Indeed, the first major festival kicks off this Friday…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:10PMWednesday, May 29, 2013
The jazz world says goodbye to a much-loved pianist and to the documentarian of an iconic photo.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:21PMSaturday, May 18, 2013
The idea of house concerts seems to be getting some legs. The "fabulous world headquarters loft of Accurate Records" again plays host, this time to the eclectic San Francisco band, Mercury …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:19PMFriday, April 26, 2013
In the wake of the horrors of last week, Jazz Week 2013 comes as almost an act of defiance, an insistence that life will go on in all sectors of the Boston community.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:37PMThursday, April 18, 2013
Pianist Randy Weston and arranger Melba Liston will be honored in a celebratory concert at the New England Conservatory.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:41AMFriday, March 8, 2013
Aardvark Jazz Orchestra turns 40, Mango Blue makes a one-night return, Evan Ziporyn plays Don Byron's new clarinet concerto, drummer Brian Blade arrives with his Fellowship band, and much, m…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:51AMTuesday, January 29, 2013
By J. R. Carroll Friday, February 1: 8 and 10 p.m., Scullers, Roberta Gambarini Tuesday, February 5: 8:30 p.m., Ryles, Bruce Bartlett Trio Wednesday, February 6: 8 p.m., Scullers, Neha Jiwra…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:36PMMonday, December 31, 2012
Music with African roots warms the January chill, percussionists raise the roof, vocalist/pianist/songwriter Patricia Barber makes a welcome return, and a sextet of touring all-stars from th…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:43PM 
