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Sets at 7 and 8:45pm

Sets at 7 and 8:45pm. Outdoor stage weather permitting. Reservations recommended.

Sets at 7 and 8:45. Outdoor stage weather permitting. Reservations recommended.

Ben Sidran is a pianist, composer, producer and journalist. When asked what all these activities have in common, his answer was “Jazz music. I have spent my life in the service of jazz.” Sidran was the host of National Public Radio’s landmark jazz series “Jazz Alive”, which received a Peabody Award and as the host of the VH-1 television series “New Visions”, which received the Ace Award for best music series. He has recorded forty solo albums, including the Grammy-nominated Concert for Garcia Lorca, and produced recordings for Van Morrison, Diana Ross, Mose Allison, Michael Franks, Rickie Lee Jones among others. He is the composer of the soundtrack for the acclaimed film Hoop Dreams and scored the documentary Vietnam Long Time Coming, which won both the Aspen Film Festival Award and an Emmy. Sidran has authored five books on the subject of jazz and the jazz life, including Black Talk, a cultural history of the music, and Talking Jazz, a series of conversations with inspirational musicians. He holds a PhD. in American Studies from Sussex University, Brighton, England. His latest works include the books There Was a Fire: Jews, Music and the American Dream and The Ballad of Tommy Lipuma and the recordings Picture Him Happy and Swing State.

For 33 years I have been a member of WBGO.I recall the Saturday morning in February 1987 when I arrived at 54 Park Place to answer phones during The…

Opening for the first time in three years, the festival brings memories of 2006 when the annual celebration of music and culture went on after Hurricane Katrina.

Bob Dorough was a bebop pianist and a jazz musician who recorded with Miles Davis. But he'll be best remembered for Schoolhouse Rock! — he sang and composed many of the programs songs. He died Monday at 94.

Head of the Village Vanguard, the oldest and most respected jazz club in New York, Lorraine Gordon's affinity for jazz was unprecedented.

Acclaimed jazz guitarist Vic Juris died on December 31, 2019, at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston at the age of 66 after a six-month battle…

Music has played an important role in the Gulf region and the Mississippi delta, often elaborating on stories of natural and man-made disasters. The music has borne testament to upheaval over the centuries.