Seminole’s Trace Zacur didn’t always want to be a musician. As a pencil-wielding school kid, in fact, he drew and drew, and hoped that one day...
A famous portrait of a meditative Louis Armstrong used to hang over the fireplace in the home photographer Herb Snitzer shared with his wife, artist Carol...
The name David Manson has been synonymous with jazz in St. Petersburg for over three decades. He began teaching music at St. Petersburg Junior College long...
Family and friends remembered Herb Snitzer as a caring, compassionate man with a strong sense of conviction, an equally strong sense of humor and blessed with...
Photographer Herb Snitzer, whose iconic images of jazz musicians in the 1950s and ’60s appeared in national and global publications including Life and Look magazines, the...
The Tampa Bay area is blessed with a pretty terrific population of jazz musicians. Some of them came out of the music programs at the University...
Changes in programming are common at radio stations, but this week’s news that WUSF-FM was ditching its veteran late night jazz show resulted in a social...
Jazz musician Kyle Eastwood has appeared in several recent films, usually as the bassist in a band playing in the background while the actors chew scenery...
For the first 60 seconds of “El Cants Dels Ocells,” a track on the new album by the St. Petersburg duo Orilla, vocalist Ona Kirei is...
Singer and songwriter Ona Kirei has been part of the bay area music community since 2018, but with this week’s release of Mirage, her first solo...
