Christian Sands grew up in New England and took up piano when he was six years old. Now 36, he’s recorded with Christian McBride, Gregory Porter, and many others. His latest album is Embracing Dawn ...

Having grown up in Connecticut, jazz pianist Christian Sands definitely values the warmer weather of his current home city of Los Angeles. “Oh yeah, I appreciate that I don’t have to shovel at all out ...

A spare duo becomes an engine—voice and piano reworking Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, theater, and rock into a present-tense argument for hope, empathy and the living tradition of jazz. Elling's ...

The Art of Jazz series is alive and kicking, albeit in a new venue, having left the Albright-Knox Art Gallery's Elmwood campus while it's closed for construction and resurfacing in Kleinhans Music ...

Birdland Theater will present The Anderson Brothers Play Artie Shaw, Pasquale Grasso Quartet w/ Luigi Grasso, Hot Club of Cowtown, and Bria Skonberg. Once a breathtaking piano prodigy employed by the ...

NEW HAVEN >> An early-weather forecast calls for sunny and warm on Saturday with a cool-down in the evening — and the “cool” extends perfectly to the headlining event of the New Haven Jazz Festival on ...

It only happens in December of every year. A sudden flurry of activities. Yes, it's Christmas, the festive season when the world celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. Usually, there is widespread ...