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Discover These Highlights in the March 2023 Issue of Jersey Jazz:
• Jazz History: Wes Montgomery’s Centennial
• Jazz History: Thad Jones’ Centennial
• Women in Jazz: Brianna Thomas
• Sarasota Jazz Festival Preview
The March issue is available to everyone. Just click on the image to your left. Please support NJJS and help us to continue promoting jazz at our Jersey Jazz LIVE! concerts and in the pages of our magazine.
News
Dizzy’s Club first opened in 2004, which for a jazz club is an impressively long time ago to still be around. Soon after it opened, Sherrie Maricle brought her big
As a bassist, Kenny Davis has played and recorded with some jazz giants such as vocalist Cassandra Wilson, pianist Geri Allen, and flugelhornist Art Farmer. He performed on Wilson’s 1993
NEA Jazz Master Wayne Shorter died March 2, 2023, in Los Angeles at the age 89. A member of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers in the 1950s and Miles Davis’ quintet
Stanley Clarke transformed the electric bass from its accompanying role and showed the world its possibilities as a solo instrument. He is also a virtuosic double bass player and an
There are lots of familiar names among the local winners in the 15th annual Charles Mingus High School Competition & Festival, held February 18-19 at The New School of Jazz
There are certain performers who take themed shows to a special level thanks to their assiduous research about and emotional involvement with their subject. Melissa Errico attained that with her
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