Year: 2016

The eleventh edition of the Dakota Combo – an elite ensemble of up to eight area youth jazz artists—will be selected following auditions on September 10th. A program of the MacPhail Center for Music and sponsored by the Dakota Foundation for Jazz Education, the Combo will rehearse bi-weekly from late September through May under the […]

Labor Day Weekend — and I will be making my (9th) annual trek to Detroit for the largest free jazz festival in the world, with the legendary Ron Carter appearing in four configurations as this year’s Artist in Residence. Another nearly as big (and free) jazz festival takes place this weekend in Chicago. But you […]