The 10th annual Skywards Dubai International Jazz Festival in Dubai will open with James Blunt Thursday night local time. Check out the live feed from the festival on our page if you want to live vicariously, and we'll be sure to keep you posted when they announce the details for next year's festival.
Mayor Cory Booker of Newark confirmed that the city is not arranging to hold a public memorial at the city's Prudential Center arena at the request of her family. Whitney's picture remains emblazoned across the front of the arena as of tonight. The family will, however, allow the private funeral to be held at [...]
Some of our favorite artists were nominated! Jazz singer and America's Got Talent winner Landau Eugene Murphy was nominated for Outstanding New Artist; Anthony Hamilton and Cee Lo Green were among the nominees for Outstanding Male Artist; Jill Scott and Ledisi were nominated alongside Jennifer Hudson, Beyoncé, and Mary J. Blige for Outstanding Female [...]
Last night JazzTonic was among the throngs who ventured to B.B.King in the rain to see the fabulous Mint Condition play. If any of you have seen Mint, you'll know why they titled one of their albums Definition of a Band. Everyone in the group had an instrument in their hands, including frontman Stockly Williams, [...]
The latest edition to our concert and festival calendar, the tenth annual Skywards Dubai International Jazz Festival, will be kicking off in what is probably the most well-known of United Arab Emirates. The festival, which has previously hosted Incognito, Macy Gray, the Brand New Heavies, John Legend, and Boney James, will feature a diverse set [...]
Billed as "Africa's Grandest Gathering" – the 13th annual Capetown Jazz Festival will be held March 30 & 31. The 2012 festival is expected to be well attended and the list of artists that will be performing is being finalized. The artists that have been confirmed include: Dave Koz, Patti Austin and James Ingram – [...]
Great opening day reviews all around. From USA Today: Not a bad start for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, which opened Friday with mild weather, miles of smiles and the usual staggering surplus of sound that had fans darting across the fair grounds to snatch an earful of everything (or a [...]
I visited New Orleans for the first time two months ago, and was completely swept up by the music scene (tip: touch down on Bourbon Street to quickly witness the tourist spectacle since you’re there, but Frenchman Street is where the music is). Jazztonic couldn’t make it to the festival this year, but if you’re [...]
