CLASSICAL/ JAZZ/ BLUES

The Flagstar Strand Theatre will host the Oakland University jazz and world music programs, which will include student and faculty ensembles with OU artist-in-residence Regina Carter, from March 30 to April 2. The Oakland University School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, in cooperation with the OU-Pontiac Initiative, is hosting these…

Don Braden performing with the Big Fun’k in New Jersey in 2011. By Courtesy of Adam Zyto Don Braden ’85, a composer, world-class saxophonist, and jazz performer, supervised The Harvard Jazz Combo Initiative’s Jazz & Java Cafe concert in Leverett House in early December last year. Many in the audience were unaware…

Note from the editor: This article is part of the On the Ground Edison series from Southwest Michigan Second Wave. It’s about to become jazzy in the Edison neighborhood. In September, Kalamazoo’s most populous neighborhood plans to launch a first-of-its-kind jazz festival, involving local musicians as well as talented jazz…

The event, which will take place on March 13 at the Cockpit Theatre in London’s Marylebone, will collect donations for individuals affected by the war in Ukraine. Alina Bzhezhinska, a Ukrainian-born jazz harpist and Jazz FM Award nominee, created Concert for Ukraine. She has spent the last decade in the…

The Orleans Parish School Board unanimously agreed to lift a prohibition on jazz music and dancing in public schools on Thursday. According to school authorities, the decision comes exactly 100 years after the resolution was passed. At a committee meeting this week, school board president Olin Parker remarked, “I’m really…

Barbara Morrison performs onstage at the 4th annual Black History Month Festival at Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center on February 20, 2021 in Los Angeles.Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images Barbara Morrison, a great jazz and blues singer from Los Angeles, has passed away. She was 72 years old at the time. According…