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The 2019 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition – The SASSY Awards!

March 1, 2020 •

2019 SASSY Awards Finalists © Kevin R. Mason On Sunday, November 24, 2019, the 8th annual contest named after the legendary Sarah Vaughan, “The Divine One,” gave […]

David Amram’s 89th Birthday at Jazz Forum

February 9, 2020 •

Jazz Forum Celebrates David Amram at 89 © Kevin R. Mason On November 16, 2019, multi-instrumentalist/composer David Amram celebrated his 89th birthday at the beautiful, intimate, […]

Jesse Simon: Ambassador of Hard Bop

February 2, 2020 •

The Minnesota Hard Bop Collective (L-R, Dale Alexander, Jesse Simon, Ted Olsen, Omar AbdulKarim, Jeff Rinear © Mn Hard Bop Collective 2020) Good things have a way of sticking around. […]

Veronica Swift and The Emmet Cohen Trio – On Stage at Kingsborough

January 19, 2020 •

Veronica Swift and The Emmet Cohen Trio © Kevin R. Mason On Friday, October 11, 2019, On Stage at Kingsborough’s “Jazz at the Lighthouse” series presented Veronica Swift & The […]

Review: JC Sanford Quartet, Keratoconus

January 13, 2020 •

Review:JC Sanford QuartetKeratoconus(Shifting Paradigm Records) I had to learn a couple of things about JC Sanford before I could fully appreciate his 2019 release Keratoconus. For starters, Sanford is a […]

No Surprise: Luke Peterson Curates “Our Own Festival” at Studio Z, December 26-28

December 15, 2019 •

Luke Peterson Something about drummer Luke Peterson impressed me long before he completed his degree in math and physics at Northwestern, long before he started graduate studies in Aerospace Engineering […]