Other than Ray Charles' "Georgia on My Mind," which Yassir Chadly had stumbled upon while surfing the dial of a battery-powered radio as a boy in Casablanca, the Moroccan musician hadn't heard much American music - let alone jazz - until one night in 1980
SPIKE LEE gathered firsthand accounts of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina from countless New Orleans residents, most of them complete strangers with only shock and anger in common.
Music Extrasensory collaboration Wayne Shorter is jazz nobility. Over five decades he has established himself as one of the most imaginative and indispensable saxophonists and composers on the scene: with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, with the Miles Davis Quintet, with Weather Report and
WATCHUNG -- Come and enjoy jazz saxophone this month at the Watchung Arts Center. April highlights the tones of this sultry instrument and the center brings it to the forefront with two phenomenal saxophonist performances.
NEW BERN - Sounds from some of the best in the jazz and blues world will glide over the riverfront this weekend as the Jazz Preservation Society of New Bern presents its fourth annual Jazz and Blues Fest.
Auditions, for Ridge Light Opera of New Jersey, seek singers who will perform ina spring HMS Pinafore, and a fall performance of September Song operetta and musical theater cabaret.