Category: Festivals

It was the best of times for devotees of jazz. It was a time for bebop and a time for inventive improvisation, a chance to hear swing and even a chance to swing your partner.  There were times for youth and times for veterans. There was jazz in the urban park, music in the baseball […]

The banners draping the Carhartt Amphitheater and Hart Plaza gateways read “Choose Detroit.” Every Labor Day weekend for the past eight years, I have done just that. I’ve chosen to spend four days in the heart of one of the nation’s most challenged cities to challenge myself to sift through schedules for approximately 70 sets […]