"Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called…

"Jazz has such great feeling and emotional content; it really doesn't require technical understanding." Dave Holland – English double bassist, composer, and bandleader Here’s what’s happening this week on the jazz…

"Jazz is in the moment, and it’s non-judgmental; when you’re playing on the stage you’re not judging what the other musician plays. What you have in mind is to enhance…

"The first time I heard Bird play it hit me right between the eyes. Through Dizzy & Bird I began to learn about musical structures & the more theoretical aspects…

"Some players get very philosophical & cerebral about jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play." Oscar Peterson - Canadian jazz pianist and composer. Called the "Maharaja of the…

"It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz."Art Blakey - American Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer and bandleader and one of the inventors of the modern bebop style of drumming.   Here’s…

Here’s what’s happening this week on the jazz scene don’t miss . . . Saxophonist Andre Woodvine - ‘One Night Only’ Saturday January 26 at Divi Southwinds. This evening ispresented by…

"One of the things I like about Jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?" Bix Beiderbecke –one of the great jazz musicians of the…

"Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz." - Stan Getz, jazz saxophonist Here’s what’s happening this week on the jazz scene Friday…

“Life is a lot like Jazz ... its best when you improvise." George Gershwin – pianist & composer Here’s what’s happening this week on the jazz scene Friday January 4 CiCi…