In 1968, a 16-year-old kid booked the jazz legend to perform at his high school. More than five decades later, a forgotten recording of the show set off a fight with Monk's label that almost derailed

MOJO’s long-running Jazz Jambalaya series has always had a broad palette, ranging from blues and bebop to R&B and contemporary jazz, so it’s not exactly a stretch for Stuff to be chosen as the ...

Cancer survivors walk by the main stage Saturday, July 16, 2022, taking the first lap of the night for Relay For Life of the Big Island 2022 at Francis Wong Stadium in Hilo. This year’s annual fundraiser event for the American Cancer Society and fight against cancer is July 19. (Photo File: Nathan Christophel/Big Island Now)

Fresh from its performances at the district music contest, Tekamah-Herman’s music department will host its annual Jazz ‘N’ Stuff concert Tuesday night. The event is set for 7 p.m. in

Stuff to do: Fillmore Jazz Fest, SFDanceworks, ‘Top Gun’ in the Presidio by Sid Goldfader-Dufty June 29, 2023, 6:37 pm June 21, 2025, 11:41 pm. ... 2023 Fillmore Jazz Festival (July 1-2) The Fillmore Jazz Festival is this weekend, and it is back in-person for the first time since 2019.

Jazz aficionados constitute a left-leaning community and always have. Thus, the literature tends to treat the jazz-heroin epidemic mainly as a story of racism (then still highly prevalent in American society), of musicians’ desperate efforts to self-medicate the associated trauma with narcotics, and of senselessly harsh drug laws.