Tag: jazz
North Philly’s New Barber’s Hall hosts ‘Matinee Jams,’ celebrating the city’s jazz legacy
Aqueelah Jamal hosts live jazz jams in North Philly every 2nd Saturday, 3-7 p.m.
2 months ago
Funds will go towards its $1.2 million capital improvement campaign, as well as replacing the roof and HVAC systems.
6 months ago
Listen 1:08Legendary jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown honored at 36th annual Wilmington music festival
The downtown Wilmington festival features multi-day performances of a variety of jazz styles including straight, fusion, R&B-influenced, and Latin jazz.
10 months ago
Philly kicks off Jazz Appreciation Month with a show of hands
Philly attempted to set a world record for jazz hands to launch Philly Celebrates Jazz 2023, featuring over 100 jazz-related events in April.
1 year ago
‘A yin and yang’: Alice and John Coltrane honored with a festival at Penn Live
A week-long festival at Penn Live honors the legacy of the husband and wife team who developed spiritual jazz.
2 years ago
Trailblazing jazz guitarist Monnette Sudler has died at 70
The Queen of Philly Jazz played with the greats, and was a champion of female guitarists.
2 years ago
Meet the Old City saxophonist bringing music and ‘good vibrations’ to Market Street
David Puryear is the iconic saxophonist who plays on the corner of 4th and Market in Old City, Philadelphia. He brings music and joy to the community.
2 years ago
Listen 1:52Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Philly Theater Week, Prince Tribute in Delaware among weekend highlights in the Delaware Valley.
2 years ago
Listen 5:14Benjamin L. Bynum Sr., Philly jazz and blues scene legend, dies at 98
Benjamin L. Bynum Sr. was a longtime Philadelphia entrepreneur and patriarch of a family associated with popular restaurants and jazz and blues venues in the city.
3 years ago
After online detour last year, live jazz returns to Wilmington for annual downtown festival
The annual Wilmington festival honoring jazz great Clifford Brown is back in person after taking a virtual detour last year.
3 years ago
Jazz legend, after house partially collapses, gets help from philanthropist, neighbors
The bottom literally fell out from the terrestrial headquarters of the intergalactic jazz ensemble. Ninety-six-year-old bandleader Marshall Allen lives inside.
3 years ago
Listen 2:11The great pumpkin fest, Germantown jazz and Dracula’s back in this week’s ‘Things to Do’
This week includes both a look at history and a chance to share your own as fall moves in with a wide variety of socially distanced and virtual events.
4 years ago
Listen 5:08Hard-hat harmonies: Music returns to (and above) the Avenue of the Arts
With its theaters closed for six months and counting, the avenue will ring out with music again as performers perch high up in a half-finished building.
4 years ago
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