Tenor saxophonist Don Aliquo is based in Nashville, Tennessee, but his sound on Jazz Folk sounds very East Coast mainstream. His smooth, clean tenor tone and seemingly fluid and intricately articulate ...

Having been commissioned by Swedish Radio in the early 1960s, Jazz på Svenska (Jazz in Swedish) (Megafon Records, 1964) became—and remains—the best-selling jazz recording in that country. The spare ...

The year began with the overwhelming cornucopia of Celtic Connections, opening in triumphant form with its 25th anniversary concert. A crammed concert bill included celebrated names from Scotland, ...

“It’s going to be a family reunion,” Jay Sweet, Newport Folk Festival’s executive producer, says. “This isn’t going to be the Newport Folk Festival, that’s going to be next year. This is going to be ...

Eclectic global talent take to the festival stages this summer as Nashville’s finest hit Edinburgh and African retro-pop comes to Wiltshire. Here are our picks Bath international music festival has ...

Newport Folk Festival and Newport Jazz Festival have officially announced their return for summer 2021. The Folk festival will occur on July 23-27, while the Jazz festival will occur July 30-Aug. 1.

George Wein, the pianist, producer, and promoter who founded the Newport Folk & Jazz Festivals and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, died Monday (September 13) at his home in Manhattan. At ...

Jay Sweet was shell-shocked. On Monday (March 30), the producer of the Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals scrolled through the list of names, all of them familiar, of artists who had applied for the Newp ...

George Wein, who set the standard for what outdoor music gatherings would become with his leadership of the Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals from the 1950s into the 21st century, died Monday at his ...