Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the importance of jazz Opening Address to the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival: God has wrought many things out of oppression. He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create—and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope [...]
Table of contents: Music to jazz up your holiday | Members' Connection: Win free tickets | 2018: A year to build community
Table of contents: Support JazzBoston on Giving Tuesday! | Boston Voyager Magazine interviews JazzBoston President Pauline Bilsky | Members' Connection: Win free tickets | No-cost jazz
Boston Voyager asked for a “fun” personal photo. Shown here: Pauline Bilsky, left, with Elynor Walcott, matriarch of the family that owns and manages Boston’s most historic jazz venue, Wally’s Jazz Café. (Jean Hangarter photo) Today we’d like to introduce you to Pauline Bilsky. Pauline, please share your story with us. How did you [...]
Table of contents: Blowing in the Wind with JazzBoston at Beantown | Mandorla Music expands with Dot Jazz Series | Members' Connection: Win free tickets | Discover Jazz III: Learn at your library, local clubs, jazz festivals, on the radio | No-cost jazz Mandorla Music expands with Dot Jazz Series Members' Connection: Win free tickets [...]
Table of contents: The All-Star Fred Taylor Scholarship Fund Benefit Concert is Tuesday! | JazzBoston at Beantown | JazzBird update for iPhones & iPads | Members' Connection: Win free tickets | Leonard Brown reflects on the John Coltrane Memorial Concert at 40 | No-cost jazz
Table of contents: Discover Jazz II – through one song | Summer and fall festivals to explore | Members' Connection: Win free tickets | No-cost jazz
Table of contents: Discover Jazz | Explore Summer Jazz Festivals | Members' Connection: Win free tickets | No-cost jazz
Table of contents: Jazz Week 2017 through a Photographer's Lens | Cambridge River Festival | Jazz Musicians from Boston: Paul Gonsalves | Member's Connection: Win free tickets | No-cost jazz
By Lexi Peery, Globe Correspondent April 22, 2017 Three months after Fred Taylor was fired from his longtime post as artistic director at Scullers Jazz Club, JazzBoston is dedicating its annual Jazz Week celebration to him. Taylor, who helped shape Boston’s jazz scene over several decades by booking such iconic performers as Miles Davis, Duke [...]
