Jazz
Foo Fighters, Lizzo, Ludacris to play New Orleans Jazz Fest

By Chevel Johnson Jun. 24, 2021 04:11 PM EDT
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Foo Fighters, Lizzo, Demi Lovato, Ludacris, The Isley Brothers, Melissa Etheridge and Trombone Shorty are among the acts slated to take the...

FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2005 file photo, Violinist Midori performs with New York Philharmonic conducted by Marin Alsop at Lincoln Center in New York. This year’s Kennedy Center Honors will be a slimmed-down affair as the nation emerges from the coronavirus pandemic. The 43rd class of honorees includes country music legend Garth Brooks, dancer and choreographer Debbie Allen, actor Dick Van Dyke, singer-songwriter Joan Baez and violinist Midori. (AP Photo/Osamu Honda)
New York Philharmonic to resume performances Sept. 17

By Ronald Blum Jun. 15, 2021 12:00 PM EDT

Virus memorial unveiled; Jazz, Puerto Rican fests return

Jun. 05, 2021 09:27 AM EDT
BOSTON (AP) — A look at coronavirus developments around New England: __ CONNECTICUT Hartford’s...

Estonian guitarist Jaak Sooaar performs in the Narva Castle on the Russian-Estonian border in Narva, Estonia, Friday, April 30, 2021. Musicians on the Estonian-Russian border held an unusual concert on Friday, with Estonian guitarist Jaak Sooaar and Russian saxophonist Alexey Kruglov performing from the castles on the opposing banks of the Narva river that marks the border between the two countries. The concert was held on the International Jazz Day by the two musicians as an act of friendship despite the deteriorating relations between the two countries and as cross-border contacts have been limited due to the corona-virus pandemic. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Musicians blend jazz rhythms across Estonia-Russia border

By Maris Hellrand Apr. 30, 2021 12:27 PM EDT

Peter Fuchs plays the piano at his home in Aventura Fla., Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. Fuchs and his wife Veronica host a Facebook Live show called "Stump the Maestro". At the start of the show Fuchs plays tunes that viewers try to guess. Then viewers request songs, mostly Broadway show tunes, '50s classics, movie soundtracks, jazz standards and some Beatles music, and Fuchs is a former Broadway composer, conductor and Holocaust survivor. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Former composer, wife invite viewers to 'Stump the Maestro'

By Freida Frisaro And Cody Jackson Mar. 25, 2021 10:20 AM EDT

In this video grab provided by CBS and the Recording Academy, Lionel Richie performs during the In Memoriam as Kenny Rogers is pictured on screen at the 63rd annual Grammy Awards at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Sunday, March 14, 2021. (CBS/Recording Academy via AP)
Grammys' in memoriam especially long, grim in pandemic year

By Andrew Dalton Mar. 15, 2021 01:09 AM EDT

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2017, file photo, various Grammy Awards are displayed at the Grammy Museum Experience at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. The Recording Academy is partnering with Berklee College of Music and Arizona State University to complete a study focused on women's representation in the music industry.. The academy, which puts on the annual Grammy Awards, said the lack of female creators in music is “one of the most urgent issues in the industry today." (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
The Latest: Billie Eilish wins record of the year at Grammys

By The Associated Press Mar. 14, 2021 09:05 PM EDT

In this photo provided by TOKYO FM, Japanese author Haruki Murakami, left, talks with guitarist Kaori Muraji during a show in Tokyo Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. Murakami has a remedy for those who need relaxation from stress and worries in time of a pandemic - Brazilian Bossa nova music. During the approximately two-hour show, he recited his 1982 short story “The1963/1982 Girl from Ipanema,” in which a narrator details his memory of his meeting with a metaphysical girl from the song, with live guitar performed by his guest Muraji. (TOKYO FM via AP)
Author Murakami hosts live jam for relaxation amid pandemic

By Mari Yamaguchi Feb. 14, 2021 10:53 AM EST

This Monday, Jan. 4, 2020 photo provided by Saint Peter's Lutheran Church shows flood damage in the music room of their church in the Manhattan borough of New York after a water main break. The Lutheran church was already reeling from the COVID-19 deaths of more than 60 congregation members during the pandemic. (Saint Peter's Lutheran Church via AP)
Flooding brings new woes to NYC church hard-hit by COVID-19

By David Crary Jan. 05, 2021 06:20 PM EST

FILE - In this July 19, 2020, file photo, people gather at a makeshift memorial near the home of Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., in Atlanta. Lewis, who died Friday at age 80, was the youngest and last survivor of the Big Six civil rights activists who organized the 1963 March on Washington, and spoke shortly before the group's leader, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., gave his "I Have a Dream" speech to a vast sea of people. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2020

By Bernard Mcghee Dec. 07, 2020 12:13 PM EST

Pandemic prompts 'pivot' at UNI performing arts center

By Melody Parker Sep. 26, 2020 01:01 AM EDT
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — Many performing arts centers in Iowa have been temporarily shuttered during the COVID-19 pandemic, including Hancher Auditorium at the...

In this Tuesday, June 16, 2020, photo, a young girl dances with her mother to the music of Alegba and Friends, a Haitian jazz and roots band performing nightly free concerts at Prospect Park's landmark boathouse in New York. The band's leader, Alegba Jahyile, who is Haitian, says, "When people come here, they come to have a little good time, to have a picnic with their family, their friends, their lovers. And then the music takes them to another level." Jahyile says he's seen people respond to his music, so he intends to continue the concerts "until the next snowflakes fall." (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Band's pandemic diversion leads to every-night gig in park

By Kathy Willens And Emily Leshner Jun. 29, 2020 10:44 AM EDT

FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2018, file photo, Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami signs his autograph on his novel "Killing Commendatore" during a press conference at Waseda University in Tokyo. The acclaimed Japanese novelist Murakami, hosting a special radio show from home, painted a brighter side of the world with his favorite music, and said Friday, May 22, 2020, the fight against the coronavirus is a challenge to human wisdom in figuring out ways to help and care each other. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
Author Murakami DJs 'Stay Home' radio show to lift spirits

By Mari Yamaguchi May. 23, 2020 01:24 AM EDT

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May. 22, 2020 03:05 AM EDT
ROGER DALTREY: WHO HELPING TEENS WITH CANCER NEW YORK (AP) — Roger Daltrey worries that the coronavirus pandemic will have a devastating...

FILE - This May 15, 2005 file photo shows Jazz great Wynton Marsalis performing with the New World School of the Arts Jazz Band of Miami, Fla. during the 10th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival in New York. The coronavirus pandemic has altered the annual competition and festival but it will still go on. The event will take place from June 8-12 on Jazz at Lincoln Center’s website, social media accounts and also through Zoom. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the program. (AP Photo/Gina Gayle, File)
Jazz competition for high school students goes virtual

By The Associated Press May. 21, 2020 09:19 AM EDT

Healthcare workers at New Orleans East Hospital wave handkerchiefs and dance to a jazz serenade, as a tribute for their care of COVID-19 patients, by the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, outside the hospital in New Orleans, Friday, May 15, 2020. A New York woman collaborated with the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra to put on what she calls a stimulus serenade to give moral support to front-line hospital workers and COVID-19 patients in New Orleans (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Donation brings a bit of Mardi Gras to hospital workers

By Stacey Plaisance May. 19, 2020 02:18 PM EDT

Anais St. John reacts after conducting a front porch concert at her home in New Orleans, Saturday, April 11, 2020. With New Orleans music venues shuttered for more than a month now because of the coronavirus outbreak, musicians and fans are finding new places to connect – porches, living rooms, studios and lawns – and reaching their largest audiences online, many streaming performances live on social media platforms. But for the city's club owners awaiting the green light to reopen there's concern about all the uncertainties, like how long it may take tourists to return, how soon the music scene will rebound and when it does, what it will look like. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
New Orleans musicians find way to soothe the city with music

By Stacey Plaisance Apr. 30, 2020 04:26 PM EDT

In this Thursday, April 23, 2020, photo dancers and choreographer Netta Yerushalmy warms up during a zoom dance rehearsal in her living room on the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York. Yerushalmy has built a career in movement and community but since the coronavirus pandemic both are gone now. Many artists like Yerushalmy have turned to social media to get their work out, posting music and artwork on Instagram. “We’re trying to figure out what are the things that preserve that sense that we’re all here now together doing something together,” she said. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Virus leaves New York City artists in a 'tailspin'

By Mark Kennedy Apr. 29, 2020 01:23 PM EDT

Stop the music: 2020 Newport folk, jazz festivals canceled

Apr. 29, 2020 09:54 AM EDT
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The 2020 Newport Folk and Newport Jazz festivals were canceled by organizers Wednesday, the same day Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo...

FILE - In this Jan. 30, 2014 file photo, Musician Wynton Marsalis speaks during a lecture performance at Harvard University's Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, Mass. The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation has launched a $1 million emergency fund to support freelance New York City-area jazz musicians during the coronavirus pandemic. The fund will give one-time grants of $1,000 to jazz musicians that live in the New York City region and work regularly in the five boroughs of New York City. Marsalis, the Grammy-winning jazz icon is president of The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
Louis Armstrong org starts COVID-19 fund for jazz musicians

By The Associated Press Apr. 16, 2020 02:23 PM EDT