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Russia’s Ural Jazz Festival Marks a Quarter Century On the last Saturday of August, the pedestrian stretch of Kirov Street in Chelyabinsk — an industrial city in the southern Ural Mountains, roughly 1,000 miles east of Moscow — fills with trumpets, trombones, drums, percussion and a crowd that clearly doesn’t mind the noise. Local jazz bands lead a parade past a monument to Sovi...

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Click on links for front-row video excerpts DAY 1 — Claudia Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center: In Pritzker Pavilion, Millenium Park: DAY 2 — Pritzker Pavilion, Millenium Park: DAY 3 — Pritzker Pavilion, Millenium Park: DAY 4 – Pritzker Pavilion, Millenium Park:

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The Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) and the Jazz Foundation of America (JFA) have announced a new five-year partnership to create the Arnold Jay Smith Jazz Journalism Seminars, an intergenerational professional development program. The seminars honor the memory of Arnold Jay Smith (1934–2022), the Brooklyn-based jazz writer, publicist and educator who was both a co-founder of...

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The second edition of Mil Estones de Jazz Festival took place in Beneixama, a small town in the province of Alicante, Spain, from August 10 to 16 2026, combining intensive jazz education with concerts and musical encounters. Of all the performances in a concert program featuring among other ensembles Kanan, Fumero & Arnedo Trio, and the Mil Estones Big Band, I was most excit...

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No need to have the blues for summer’s end since the music is non-stop as proved by the ever-increasing number of global news updates coming in — from Chamber Music America’sc conference at our base in Chicago to Hard Groove happening in Japan! [By the way, do you know that before Muddy Waters, Ann Cole sang these words written by Preston Foster?] “Midstream, Crossing that River...

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