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,...
You can probably count on one hand the number of jazz bass players who sing at the same time. Change the equation to singing bassists who...
Danny Bacher has been called a lot of things – most of them good – and one of the most common, usually after someone has watched...
You can never have too much jazz, apparently. Two St. Petersburg downtown venues are skewing jazz-centric: It’s “January Jazz Weekend” at thestudio@620, kicking off with a...
When Mike Cornette was a student at the University of South Florida, the big deal on WUSF, the campus radio station, was the controversial “Underground Railroad”...
Up in Philadelphia, her hometown, Synia Carroll grew up virtually jazz-free. Sure, her parents had a couple of Dinah Washington albums, but Dad actually preferred the...
