Events for Monday, November 24 - Saturday, December 13

Three Visitors conjures ephemerality – the idea that we are all temporarily in this physical realm and that we can visit other equally transient realms through art and music. In this time and space, with improvisation as the constant, the three come together to visit and explore multiple currents and influences that are passing through […]

Get ready for a musical experience that’s electric, virtuosic, and straight from the heart. The Django Festival All Stars bring the legendary Django Reinhardt’s hot jazz legacy roaring into the 21st century — and it’s hotter than ever. On this concert date, the band will be joined by special guest, the sensational and dynamic vocalist […]

Get ready for a musical experience that’s electric, virtuosic, and straight from the heart. The Django Festival All Stars bring the legendary Django Reinhardt’s hot jazz legacy roaring into the 21st century — and it’s hotter than ever. On this concert date, the band will be joined by special guest, the sensational and dynamic vocalist […]

Jacky Terrasson, one of the most widely travelled of all jazz pianists, is the “piano player of happiness” according to Telerama magazine in France. He is an exhilarating musician, one of those who play their public straight to euphoria. This Franco-American national has never stopped dazzling us, either through his prestigious collaborations, with greats such […]

Barbara Higbie, Vicki Randle, and Mia Pixley bring light to the holidays with their Windham Hill Winter Solstice Concert, performing traditional and original music celebrating the season. Higbie is a GRAMMY nominated and award winning pianist/fiddler/singer-songwriter, celebrating the release of her latest album, Solstice. Higbie is known as the first female instrumentalist signed to the […]

Jazz history is filled with stirring torch songs and ballads – brilliant expressions of suffering after love has gone awry. The jazz record shelf even contains some classic album-long explorations of melancholy. But it’s hard to find precedent in pianist Christian Sands’ new Embracing Dawn, his fifth full-length effort for Mack Avenue Records. Sands’ LP […]

The Klezmatics are world-renowned and Grammy-winning superstars of the klezmer world. They erupted out of New York City’s East Village in 1986 and revitalized klezmer for the new century with music that is steeped in Eastern European Jewish tradition and spirituality, while incorporating contemporary themes such as human rights and anti-fundamentalism with eclectic musical influences […]

One of the great jazz guitarists of his generation, Mike Stern has the unique ability to play with the finesse and lyricism of Jim Hall, the driving swing of Wes Montgomery and the turbulent, overdriven attack of Jimi Hendrix. Growing up in the Washington, D.C. area, Stern revered all three of those guitar immortals, along […]

One of the great jazz guitarists of his generation, Mike Stern has the unique ability to play with the finesse and lyricism of Jim Hall, the driving swing of Wes Montgomery and the turbulent, overdriven attack of Jimi Hendrix. Growing up in the Washington, D.C. area, Stern revered all three of those guitar immortals, along […]

We are thrilled to be closing out our landmark year with a truly special Kuumbwa Jazz 50th Anniversary Celebration. This remarkable band, formed solely for this occasion, highlights trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, pianists Billy Childs and Gerald Clayton, drummer Gregory Hutchinson, flautist Elena Pinderhughes, saxophonist Joshua Redman, and bassist Reuben Rogers in an evening that embodies […]