(New York City, NY) — JAZZ STANDARD Jazz Standard, one of the nation’s premier jazz clubs, offers another im­pressive month of music with jazz legends and rising stars throughout August. From July 31 ...
My passage as a listener into the jazz world was accidental and fortuitous. As a young rock fan browsing the vinyl cutouts at Jack's Record Rack, I found one of Miles Davis' Live at the Blackhawk ...
The term “standard” seems antithetical to something as freeform and limitless as jazz. But, time has proven that these songs are not rigid at all. The only strict parameter is the lyrics, and yet ...
On July 17, 1959, the famed singer behind a controversial jazz standard once condemned as a “declaration of war” died—an ironically tragic end to an internal war the singer endured in the final years ...
THE JAZZ STANDARDS: A Guide to the Repertoire, by Ted Gioia. Oxford University Press, 527 pp., $39.95. In a tense moment at the end of Annie Dillard's memoir "Encounters With Chinese Writers," nothing ...
Holly Hofmann, who has performed at the Rancho Bernardo Library many times, is returning on Tuesday evening as part of a jazz trio playing selections from the Great American Songbook. “I’m looking ...
The first Jazz Band performance of fall 2025 was a success with a lively audience and a night of Jazz standards, as well as ...