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...
Question: What were the bay area’s big band musicians doing during the pandemic? Answer: Everything but playing music, that’s for sure. There’s reason to celebrate tonight’s...
Trumpeter Duane Eubanks comes from a long line of jazz musicians. His mother, all three of his brothers and a handful of uncles are players of...
To hear Bryan J. Hughes tell it, every member of the jazz group he’s playing with is a secret weapon. Hughes, a vocalist, has put this...
The jazz duo Orilla debuted on an episode of The Catalyst Sessions last fall, and went on to appear, virtually, several times over the intervening months....
Jazz as a living, breathing art form just doesn’t get its due in St. Petersburg, if you ask David Manson. As the architect of the long-running...
If you need proof that music is indeed the universal language, consider Tampa’s Ona Kirei. The jazz vocalist, born and bred in Barcelona, Spain, is a...
For Jeremy Carter, Friday’s Palladium Live! virtual concert is just the latest development in the tenor sax player’s ongoing and evolving relationship with the Palladium Theater...
Jazz keyboard legend Chick Corea, a resident of Clearwater, died Feb. 9 of “a rare form of cancer only discovered very recently.” The announcement was posted...
After a last gig on March 16 – a wedding reception in Belleair Beach – James Suggs was one more musician whose momentum was stopped dead...
