Jazz Police

Thursday Night Jazz at Reverie will be the scene of significantly jazzy commotion this week (June 2) when the Rodney Ruckus Trio takes the stage at 9 pm. To say that the young drummer has been creating a “ruckus” would be an understatement. His cohorts on this gig are equally capable of raising the roof– […]

Ed. note: Not intended to be exhaustive, just some subjective highlights of the coming month June 1. dVRG Redefined at Jazz Central, 8:30 pm. One of the Renaissance men of jazz, deVon R. Gray is a prolific composer and multi-instrumentalist, teaming up in this ensemble with guitarist James Everest and percussionist Davu Seru on Jazz […]

When Crooners Lounge launched a Tuesday Night Instrumental Jazz series last fall, one of the first performers was octogenarian saxman Dave Karr and his quartet. A few months later when Crooners opened its intimate listening space, the Dunsmore Room, the Dave Karr Quartet was on the Tuesday night schedule during the first month. Now Dave […]

For a number of years, Steve Kenny led a band dubbed The Bastids (aka Bebop Bastids) for a weekly (Wednesday) early evening gig at the Artists Quarter. In summer 2013, Kenny decided it was time for a change-up, and for the remainder of the AQ’s run (through December 2013),  the early Wednesday time slot featured […]