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The keyboardist and harpist Alice Coltrane has the disadvantage of bearing the last name of her husband, John Coltrane. He was already world-famous in the mid-sixties, when they married and started ...

Musicians both established and up-and-coming stretched themselves in fresh ways over the last year, creating poignant moments of collaboration and challenge. By Hank Shteamer In 2024, jazz continued ...

Cutty and Zutty were there. So were Peanuts, Woody, Yank, Wingy, Red, Pee Wee and Willie the Lion.* Sammy Davis Jr. was supposed to come, but he pleaded “fatigue” at the last minute and didn’t show.

The Columbus Jazz Orchestra (CJO) will kick off their 52nd season with The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World Oct. 10-13 at the Southern Theatre. Led by Bandleader Byron Stripling, the four concerts ...

An old saxophone rests in its balding velvet-lined case. The worn keys seems fragile, the screws maybe loose, the metal tarnished. It’s on loan from local jazz musician Tom Hall, in an exhibit case at ...