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...
Sometimes even Mindi Abair can’t quite comprehend that she’s 21 years into a successful career as a musician and recording artist. And that she’s still going...
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...
She’s from Spain, and he hails from Colombia, and Latin DNA is certainly a factor in the symbiotic quality of the music when Ona Kiri and...
Chick Corea has 23 Grammy Awards to his credit, the most recent for his 99th career album The Spanish Heart Band: Antidote, released in 2019. His...
The jazz trio La Lucha kicked off Thursday’s edition of The Catalyst Sessions with a swinging live performance of “One Plus Two,” a song from the...
La Lucha is a fixture in contemporary Tampa Bay jazz. These three guys, each in his early ‘30s, have been performing together since meeting as University...
It was peer pressure that made a jazz singer out of Gloria West, who’ll be onstage at the Palladium Side Door Friday night. The bay area’s...