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...
A plan to make improvements to Hough Hall, the Palladium Theater’s 800-seat main auditorium, is in the very early stages. Built in 1925 as the First...
The collaborative spirit is alive and well in St. Petersburg, and will be on full display Friday at Beacon, the annual mixed-repertoire dance concert at the...
Most of the voices of the so-called “beat” era – Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti and Kerouac – are long gone. Their words live on, of course, as does...
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...
Classical pianist María Dolores Gaitán, who’s internationally known for her passionate interpretations of historically significant Spanish music, performs in recital Thursday at the Palladium Theater. Gaitán,...
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...
His first name is Benny, but the world has always known him by his surname, Latimore. The Tennessee native, who’s lived in Hillsborough County for a...
