New Orleans roots rock band The Revivalists will be rounding out an already stacked Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Experience lineup that includes Daryl Hall & John Oates, Lake Street Dive, Keith Urban, Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats and St. Paul & the Broken Bones. The Revivalists…

To celebrate Aspen Snowmass hosting the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup: The 2017 World Cup Finals taking place March 15-19, Jazz Aspen Snowmass are bringing you a special event for World Cup Weekend March 17 and 18. The JAS Café Downstairs at the Cooking School of Aspen will come alive with a special…

While the successes of the Houston Rockets and San Antonio Spurs have been well documented, the team that could pose the biggest threat to the Golden State Warriors is rarely mentioned. The Utah Jazz, quietly amassing a 41-24 record, are built for each of the West’s top teams. Quin Snyder’s team…

The classical-jazz pianist and vocalist, Amanda Wu, is set to release her upcoming EP, The Journey on Earth, Vol. 2, this April. Wu has teamed up with AXS to premiere her first single, “Listen to the Story of Time.” This single fuses Wu’s highly polished jazz vocals with funky bass and piano…

Dr. William Jones, known as Doc Jones, executive director of International Jazz day AZ foundation, musician and music educator, spoke with AXS about the upcoming jazz day festivities recently. The International Jazz Day AZ Foundation is a non-profit organization that was incorporated in 2015 as a…

Whatever happened with the Utah Jazz between the first of February—in which it lost a slew of games—and now is remarkable. Not only did the Jazz—who lost back-to-back games to the Celtics and Clippers in embarrassing fashion—proverbially do what rhymes with spit to their beds, they also set a bad…

<img src="http://d1ya1fm0bicxg1.cloudfront.net/2017/02/26333-optimized_58b0625b121f1.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt=" While saxophonist and vocalist Grace Kelly has performed at Seattle’s Jazz Alley before, this will be her first time headlining with her own band for the new release, Trying To Figure It Out. ” align=”left” border=”0″ /> Everything Grace Kelly, 23, does, she does with her whole heart and soul. […]

<img src="http://d1ya1fm0bicxg1.cloudfront.net/2017/02/26121-optimized_58ade11b440a9.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt=" Kyle Saulnier’s Awakening Orchestra tries to awaken the listening audience to what’s going on within and without for a truly collective live experience. Based on jazz-fusion guitarist Jesse Lewis’ 2008 album, Atticus, Atticus Live! features a 19-piece orchestra and the guest artist himself playing post-modern third stream music. ” align=”left” […]

<img src="http://d1ya1fm0bicxg1.cloudfront.net/2017/02/25718-optimized_58a879d33f09b.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt=" German trumpeter Julian and pianist Roman Wasserfuhr use every jazz asset at their disposal to portray action-packed New York City in the new album, Landed in Brooklyn. ” align=”left” border=”0″ /> German brothers Julian and Roman Wasserfuhr show the action-packed nature of Brooklyn through hard-hitting, horn-and-piano entanglements. Their new album, […]

<img src="http://d1ya1fm0bicxg1.cloudfront.net/2017/02/25698-optimized_58a87ca3e8c12.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt=" On his upcoming Mack Avenue record, guitarist and composer Kevin Eubanks indulges in his Philly-bred R&B roots with his love of the spiritually enhanced abstract. ” align=”left” border=”0″ /> For the longest time, Kevin Eubanks has wanted to stand on his own as an artist — apart from the fame […]