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Jazz All Ways presents Mark Zaleski March 7th at Regattabar

JazzBoston Jazz Jams now at Oggi in Harvard Sq starting March 14th

JazzBoston Hot Club Listening Sessions free and online!

JazzBoston helps GBH curate weekly jazz concerts at Boston Public Library

JazzNOW with South African vocalist NALEDI now online, series continues in April and June

Discount tix for JazzBoston members for Miho Mazama 3/16 at Berklee

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Jazz All Ways series continues with Mark Zaleski March 7th at Regattabar

Can you imagine what Creep by Radiohead or Billie Jean by Michael Jackson can sound like in the hands of master jazz musicians and a visionary leader?
JazzBoston presents the Premiere of Mark Zaleski’s “Portrait of the 90s”  Thursday March 7th at Regattabar in Harvard Square.
Instrumental re-imaginations of music that was the soundtrack to a generation, including Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Michael and Janet Jackson, Aaliyah, and more hit-makers!
Mark says “The band features some of my favorite musicians on the planet.  Sometimes, I have to pinch myself to make sure this isn’t a dream!… “
Jason Palmer – trumpet
Glenn Zaleski – piano
Cecil Alexander – guitar
Matt Dwonszyk – bass
Mark Whitfield Jr – drums
There will even be a special guest SO HUGE, that we’ve been told by their management that we’re not supposed to say who it is…
Advanced Ticket Purchase is recommended:  https://www.regattabarjazz.com/event/portrait-90s-mark-zaleski-jason-palmer-march-7-2024/
This special jazz performance is part of JazzBoston’s award-winning Jazz All Ways series, which is made possible in part with support from Massachusetts Cultural Council, Cambridge Arts Council, and Cambridge Community Foundation.

JazzBoston Free Jam Sessions return at a new venue in Harvard Square!

FREE, open to the public ALL-AGES jazz jams are moving to a great new venue:  Oggi, 30 Dunster St, Harvard Square, Cambridge, on 2nd & 4th Thursdays from 7-10pm.  We’ll kick this off on March 14th!  Bring your instrument, come to play, come to hang, come to listen, come to have dinner and drinks!  The house band will play a set at 7pm, and the open jam will follow.

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Boston jazz historian Richard Vacca’s Boston Jazz Chronicles is an amazing and valuable resource.  We encourage jazz musicians and fans to check it out.

Vacca’s beautifully maintained and researched blog includes regular features about noted people & places that helped shape the Boston-area jazz scene.  The current entry is about the the recording of the Joe Zawinul composition “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” by the Buddy Rich Big Band in 1968, and the connections of the band and that recording to Boston, and to Boston legend Phil Wilson.  You can read about it here!

Music Museum of New England:

Serge Chaloff

Child prodigy Serge Chaloff was born in Boston on November 24, 1923.  He became “the most expressive and openly emotive baritone saxophonist jazz has ever witnessed,” according to critic Brian Davis in his liner notes for Chaloff’s classic LP Boston Blow-Up!  Read a fascinating short biography of Serge Chaloff by D.S. Monahan in this entry on the website of the Music Museum of New England.

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