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Tenor Sax legend Houston Person and Jazz Pianist Lafayette Harris Jr will play a live stream show, at the illustrious Soapbox Gallery. This is a duo - sax, and piano - concert. They will play some of their favorite Jazz standards and loads of Blues! The setlist will include, Harris' original "You Can’t Lose With The Blues", "They All Laughed" as recorded by Person and the standard, "Stars Fell On Alabama". It will be a great evening of music. As always, the live stream is free to watch, support Soapbox via donation, if you're able to. WATCH LIVE HERE - https://www.soapboxgallery.org/events/lafayette-harris-amp-houston-person

Award-winning, Powerhouse jazz vocalist Michelle Walker joins us to celebrate the release of her new album, "Take A Chance on Love" on the Encore Merci/Warner Music label. Walker will perform a eclectic mix of jazz standards, reimagined pop songs and original selections from her new release. The album was named one top new release on the UK Soul Chart.

It’s one thing to win a talent competition—but it’s what you do after that defines you as an artist. For Fantasia, winning American Idol in 2004 was just the beginning of a skyrocketing career. A GRAMMY® winner for her song “Bittersweet,” Fantasia acts, tours, records and continues to top the Billboard R&B charts. Jazzmeia Horn found her spotlight as winner of NJPAC’s Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition in 2013. Named “among the most exciting young vocalists in jazz” by The New York Times, Jazzmeia has received GRAMMY® noms for her albums Dear Love, A Social Call and Love and Liberation. Experience the unparalleled vocal stylings of these two award-winning singers.

'The Complete Live at the Lighthouse' finds trumpeter Lee Morgan leading one of the greatest bands of the early 1970s. Jazz United considers its legacy anew, as illuminated by this 12-LP boxed set.

On this episode of The Art of the Story, Leo Sidran talks to trumpeter David Weiss of The Cookers

The NEA has announced its 2026 class of Jazz Masters

To continue safely serving our community of artists and audience members, Arts for Art is filming and releasing new performances on Tuesdays and Thursdays in January, February, and March. A pay-what-you-can donation is required to view each video. All donations will go towards AFA’s Artists & Friends Campaign. About Steve Swell: Born in Newark, NJ, Steve Swell has been an active member of the NYC music community since 1975. His breadth of versatility has allowed him to tour and record with such mainstream artists as Lionel Hampton and Buddy Rich in the past, as well as more contemporary artists like Anthony Braxton, Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor and William Parker. He has over 50 CDs as a leader or co-leader and is a featured artists on more than 125 other releases. He runs workshops around the world and is a teaching artist in the NYC public school system focusing on special needs children. Swell has worked on music transcriptions of the Bosavi tribe of New Guinea for MacArthur fellow, Steve Feld in 2000. His CD, "Suite For Players, Listeners and Other Dreamers" (CIMP) ranked number 2 in the 2004 Cadence Readers Poll. He has also received grants from USArtists International in 2006, MCAF (LMCC) awards in 2008 and 2013 and has been commissioned three times for the Interpretations Series at Merkin Hall in 2006 and at Roulette in 2012 and 2017. Steve was nominated for Trombonist of the Year 2008, 2011 & 2020 by the Jazz Journalists Association, was selected Trombonist of the Year 2008-2010 , 2012 and 2014-2020 by the magazine El Intruso of Argentina and received the 2008 Jubilation Foundation Fellowship Award of the Tides Foundation. Steve has also been selected by the Downbeat Critics Poll in the Trombone category each year from 2010-2018 & 2020. His recording "Soul Travelers" with Jemeel Moondoc, Dave Burrell, William Parker and Gerald Cleaver was chosen as Album of the Year in 2016 by the New York City Jazz Record. His performance of "Kende Dreams" with Connie Crothers, Rob Brown, Larry Roland and Chad Taylor at the 2016 Vision Festival was cited as one of the best performances of the year by the same journal. This was also one of Connie's last performances. We miss her dearly. Steve is presently a teaching artist through the American Composers Orchestra, Healing Arts Initiative , Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center (Bronx), the Jazz Foundation of America, Leman Manhattan Preparatory School and the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. Steve was also awarded the 2014 Creative Curricula grant (LMCC) for the project: "Metamorphoses: Modern Mythology in Sound and Words" which was taught in a month long residency at Baruch College Campus High School in Manhattan. Steve's CD Music for Six Musicians: Hommage à Olivier Messiaen was listed in NPR's top 50 albums for 2018. Steve is an inaugural recipient of a Jazz Road Tours grant (SouthArts.org) begun in 2019 and received a 2020 Creative Engagement grant (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council) for performances to take place in Manhattan. In 2021 Steve received the City Artists Corps Grant (NYC).

Baker helped make formal jazz education a growing part of the music's history and evolution.

The lineup for the 69th edition of the Newport Jazz Festival on Aug. 4-6 announced and includes headliners Herbie Hancock, Diana Krall, Jon Batiste and Kamasi Washington.

Just how major is 'A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle'? Nate Chinen and Greg Bryant discuss this historic release on Jazz United, moments after listening together to the album.