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Les Davis, who died June 20, 2024, in Ocala, FL, one day shy of his 93rd birthday, was a New

The New Jersey Jazz Society occasionally receives donations of musical instruments, and we give them to the Paterson Music Project,

The transition from ragtime to stride . . . from collective improvisation to soloing . . . from the New

At the recent Rochester International Jazz Festival, trumpeter Jim Rotondi led his own quintet on June 28 and played with

When trumpeter Wallace Roney, Jr. performed at The Falcon in Marlboro, NY, in October 2022, Rudy Lu of nippertown.com, the

There was a special connection between tap dancer Maurice Hines and the DIVA Jazz Orchestra. Hines’ longstanding manager, the late

Tenor saxophonist Paul Gonsalves’ 27-chorus solo on “Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue” with the Duke Ellington Orchestra at the 1956

The New Jersey Jazz Society is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Juried Scholarship Competition. They are: $1,000

Vocalist Dani Assis’ bio points out that he was born into a musical family. That is an understatement. “When I

The Newark Academy jazz band, Chameleon (photo above), took first place in this year’s Essentially Ellington competition, sponsored by Jazz