Left for dead long ago, the Utah Jazz are suddenly the hottest team in the NBA. The Jazz have won 10 straight games and sit just 1.5 games in back of the New Orleans Pelicans for the eighth and final seed in the Western Conference. Despite losing Gordon Hayward in the offseason, the addition of…

Washington, D.C. based jazz band Veronneau have released their new album Love & Surrender, and firmed up plans for a spring 2018 concert tour. You can watch a live performance of their new song “The Road” by playing the video above, and download the complete record now on iTunes. This is the…

Arcade Fire is gearing up for their Krewe du Kanaval festival on Tuesday with a new song. The fun, upbeat “Ann Ale! (Let’s Go!)” will serve as the theme song for the festival. It also features the Preservation Hall Horns and Haitian group RAM, and all will perform as part of the festival, along with…

<img src="https://i.axs.com/2018/02/50000-optimized_5a73804ba9492.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt=" Elizabeth Bougerol of The Hot Sardines ” align=”left” border=”0″ /> The Hot Sardines was conceptualized and started by Elizabeth Bougerol and Evan Palasso. The two met at a jam session in New York City after answering an ad on Craigslist. Bougerol is the singer for the band and Palasso is […]

Spyro Gyra performed at Tucson’s Rialto Theatre for the first time in 30 years on Jan. 20. The band formed in the mid-1970s and it has been one of jazz’s most commercially successful bands ever. Much of that success can be attributed to their stimulating live performances with many danceable…

Tucson got a double dose of delicious jazz at the Fox Theatre with vocalist, Diane Schuur, and the Bill Charlap Trio on Jan.18. This was another sold-out show for the festival. Schuur is well known to Tucson since she lived in the ‘Old Pueblo’ from 1976-1980. The Bill Charlap Trio is from New York…

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, (HBE), set the bar for the rest of Jazz Festival artists during their show at the Rialto Theatre on Jan.11. HBE hails from Chicago, but they have become citizens of the world as they have toured. They recently finished a tour opening for Gorillaz. The band consists of seven…

The Jazz in the Gardens 2018 music festival will be held at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens on March 17-18. Comedian and radio personality Rickey Smiley will host the popular music fest, which will return for its 13th year.  The two-day festival will feature a stellar line-up of jazz, R&B…

The 2018 Tucson Jazz Festival will be held at multiple venues from Jan. 11 through January 21. This is the fourth year for the 11-day Festival with a different headliner everyday. This is the only major jazz festival in the United States in January and it takes advantage of the great weather that…

Already an in-demand Nashville-based musician, Micah Wilshire’s contributions to music include session work for artists like Darius Rucker, Dierks Bentley and Jake Owen. As a writer, he’s scored big with television and film placements as well as songs for orchestrally dark-pop artists like Katie…