<img src="https://i.axs.com/2017/04/31772-optimized_5902867b68dff.png" width="150" height="150" alt=" Jazz Fest is back with another sick lineup in 2017 ” align=”left” border=”0″ /> Though it’s known colloquially as Jazz Fest, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival really is a more fitting title, as the seven-day event celebrates not just jazz music, but the rich cultural heritage of the […]

The Billboard chart-topping, Verve Salt breakout artist, Lizz Wright, shines the brightest covering jazz standards in her own careful way. The way she vocally strolls under the moonlight toward an unseen lover in her latest cover gone viral, “The Nearness Of You,” enchanted several full houses at…

The Rolling Stones made a rare personal appearance at the prestigious 2017 Jazz FM Awards gala, held on April 25 in London at Shoreditch Hall. The legendary British rockers scored two big wins, picking up Album of the Year, as well Blues Artists of the Year and Stones drummer Charlie Watts was…

For more than 20 years Jazz Aspen Snowmass has been helping to keep music education in schools through programs like JAS Academy and JAS In-Schools. In that time JAS has raised and donated over $7 million to a wide variety of music education programs, often to schools where the annual music…

Rick Braun decided to do things a little differently for his most recent album Around The Horn. For his first record with new label Shanachie and his 17th studio album overall, the enduring jazz star brought some pop to his already special sound. AXS conducted a phone interview with Braun to discuss…

<img src="http://i.axs.com/2017/04/30000-optimized_58e7bda904a4c.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt=" In a world of comping copycats, saxophonist Ravi Coltrane stands out for his mesmerizing, transformative, soul-boring play. He’s live at Jazz Alley, April 11-12. ” align=”left” border=”0″ /> Melodic and true, 2017 Grammy-nominated, post-bop jazz saxophonist Ravi Coltrane comes to Seattle’s Jazz Alley Tuesday and Wednesday with a world of […]

In a Feb. 2 AXS interview, jazz pianist Bill Anschell considered his chances of winning another Golden Ear Award from Earshot Jazz, after receiving two nominations — “NW Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year” and “Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame.” The five-time Golden Ear winner had already won the “Jazz…

After laying a proverbial egg in their first game in the merry month of March in a 27-point loss to Minnesota, the Utah Jazz proceeded to win their next five games behind Herculean efforts from Gordon Hayward. In that span Hayward held strong, scoring about 22 points per game—showing you why he was…

The prestigious New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is right around the corner. April 28-May 7 will see the world’s best musicians and thousands of fans descend upon the Crescent City for what is one of the most anticipated music festivals of the year. With the festival a month out, Jazz Fest…

<img src="http://i.axs.com/2017/03/28503-optimized_58cc1ac44bb1a.png" width="150" height="150" alt=" A musically-talented fan of the show It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia has taken the term superfan to a new level.  ” align=”left” border=”0″ /> In the age of on-demand programming, the casual fan has been able to evolve into that of a superfan. Entertainment-based content can now be watched, or listened to, […]