Synia Carroll, the Sarasota-based jazz vocalist who left a career as a schoolteacher and storyteller to devote herself full time to music, died Friday after a...
When President Barack Obama presented Arturo Sandoval with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013, he made note of the Cuban-born jazz trumpeter’s struggles against the...
Brazilian guitarist Diego Figueiredo, who fuses bossa nova, samba, jazz and more, is among the headlining artists at the 34th annual Suncoast Jazz Festival, Friday through...
Nate Najar was already a leading figure in Tampa Bay jazz when he met Daniela Soledade six years ago. Since then, the St. Petersburg-born guitarist and...
Friday’s night’s event at the Palladium Theater is an outreach concert from the Clearwater Jazz Holiday, which will celebrate its 45th anniversary in October. The Palladium...
From its inception in 1995 until the pandemic closed its Clearwater campus 25 years later, the Players School of Music was the hurricane-eye of jazz instruction...
In this age of rampant impersonator acts, and legacy bands that tour with the drummer as the sole original member, sometimes an honest-to-goodness musical legend comes...
On this week’s edition of Arts Alive! we welcome David Manson, founder and director of the St. Petersburg Jazz Festival, which celebrates its 15th year April...
St. Petersburg has a tightly-knit jazz community, where musicians often come together in small or larger groups, or play in duos or trios, or simply show...
A Celebration of Life is planned for bay area jazz drummer Pat Close. The Ohio-born musician, who had lived in the Clearwater area since 1988, lost...