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...
When Shankh Lahiri arrived in Tampa 11 years ago, he set about finding “like-minded” individuals – skilled musicians who were open to fusing Indian classical music...
A collection of many of the bay area’s top jazz musicians will perform Sunday in a benefit concert for one of their own. Drummer Pat Close,...
Her specialty is stride, a rhythmic, freewheeling kind of jazz piano-playing that both sings and swings. In fact, there are few musicians in the world as...
Four-part vocal harmony was considered archaic – pop music for Pop and Mom – when the Manhattan Transfer arrived in the early 1970s. Stylish and swinging,...
After taking 2021 off for a pandemic-necessitated siesta, the St. Petersburg Jazz Festival returns this weekend with an inspired lineup of music and musicians. The event,...