The excellent Jazz Defenders (pictured above) are celebrating their first decade this month with a gig at the Fringe (Wed 27), the venue that housed their earliest appearances. Since those first sets ...

As you may have gleaned from the ol' headline above, I'll be in New Jersey (by choice) from Thursday through Wednesday. But that won't affect your showgoing. What are you looking forward to this week?

Like the Mississippi River, jazz flows with unpredictability and grace, carrying stories from one generation to the next. On ...