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Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival

Jazz Preview: The 2016 Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival

This year’s theme, “Jazz: A Peace Supreme,” is a bit diffuse—and so is the roster of performers, headlined by drummer Billy Hart and vocalist Al Jarreau.

By: J.R. Carroll Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Preview Tagged: Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival

Fuse Preview: The 2015 Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival

Ambrose Akinmusire at BeanTown 2014.

From noon to six on Saturday, September 26, Boston’s premier outdoor jazz event, the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival, returns to Boston’s South End for a fifteenth year.

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Preview Tagged: Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival, John-Coltrane, Terri Lyne Carrington

Coming Attractions in Jazz: Festival Preview 2015

Burlington Discover Jazz Festival 2015

Get your maps and open up your calendar app—it’s time to plan your summer of jazz in New England.

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Dance, Featured, Film, Jazz, Music, Preview, World Music Tagged: Bang on a Can Music Festival, Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival, Berkshire Gateway Jazz Weekend, Boston Summer Arts Weekend, Bread and Roses Heritage Festival, Burlington Discover Jazz Festival, Cambridge Jazz Festival, Cambridge River Festival, Carnaval at SomerStreets, Deer Isle Jazz Festival, Django in June, Festival Betances, Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz, Green River Festival, Honk! Festival, Hyde Park Jazz Festival, International Festival of Arts and Ideas, Joe's Jazz and Blues Fest, Lincoln Arts Festival, Litchfield Jazz Festival, New Bedford JazzFest, New Hampshire Bass Fest, New Haven Jazz Festival, Newport Jazz Festival, Newton Jazz and Wine Festival, Northampton Jazz Festival, Outside the Box festival, Paulie's NOLA Jazz and Blues Festival, Provincetown Jazz Festival, Rockport Jazz Festival, Salem Jazz & Soul Festival, Solid Sound Festival, Somerville ArtBeat

Jazz Preview: The 2014 Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival

A BeanTown Panorama

Boston’s premier outdoor jazz event, the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival, returns to Boston’s South End for a fourteenth year this Saturday, with drummer Terri Lyne Carrington back at the helm again as the artistic director.

By: J.R. Carroll Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Preview, World Music Tagged: Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival

Coming Attractions in Jazz: Late Summer/Early Autumn Festival Update

Northampton Jazz Festival logo

The Hyde Park Jazz Festival is back, and from Northampton to Falmouth jazz festivals abound throughout the waning days of summer and the arrival of autumn.

By: Arts Fuse Server Administrator Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Jazz, Music, Preview, World Music Tagged: Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival, Bread and Roses Heritage Festival, Honk! Festival, Hyde Park Jazz Festival, JazzFest Falmouth, Newton Jazz and Wine Festival, Newtonville Village Day and Jazz Festival, Northampton Jazz Festival, Pittsfield CityJazz Festival

Coming Attractions in Jazz: Festival Preview 2014

The Discover Jazz Festival on Lake Champlain.

The big “destination” jazz festivals are major events, but aficionados making vacation plans will be missing out if they don’t at least take a look at the musical offerings of the smaller festivals.

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Jazz, Music, Preview Tagged: Bang on a Can Music Festival, Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival, Berkshire Gateway Jazz Weekend, Boston Summer Arts Weekend, Bread and Roses Heritage Festival, Burlington Discover Jazz Festival, Cambridge River Festival, Deer Isle Jazz Festival, Festival Betances, Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz, Green River Festival, Hot Steamed Jazz Festival, International Festival of Arts and Ideas, JazzFest Falmouth, Joe's Jazz and Blues Fest, Litchfield Jazz Festival, New Bedford JazzFest, New Hampshire Bass Fest, New Haven Jazz Festival, Newport Jazz Festival, Newton Jazz and Wine Festival, Northampton Jazz Festival, Onset Beach Jazz Festival, Paulie's NOLA Jazz and Blues Festival, Plymouth Rock Assurance Jazz Festival, Provincetown Jazz Festival, Rockport Jazz Festival, Salem Jazz & Soul Festival, SomerStreets, Somerville ArtBeat

Fuse Gallery: BeanTown Scenes

Will Calhoun Trio

As the festival season draws to a close, a look back at the 2013 BeanTown Jazz Festival.

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Fuse News, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival, Bloco AfroBrazil, Christian Scott, JazzBoston, Meshell Ndgeocello, Mike Tucker, Rick DiMuzio, Warren Wolf, Will Calhoun

Fuse Preview: The 2013 Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival

Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival 2013

Boston’s biggest outdoor jazz event has more of a local focus his year—hardly a problem, given the wealth of talent connected to Berklee, NEC and other institutions.

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Fuse News, Jazz, Music, Preview Tagged: Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival, Christian Scott, Mike Tucker, Rick DiMuzio, Simon Moullier, Warren Wolf, Will Calhoun

Fuse News Autumn 2013 Jazz Festival Update

JazzFest Falmouth logo

The 2013 jazz festival season in New England wraps up with events in Lowell, Newton, Boston, Falmouth, Pittsfield and Holyoke.

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Fuse News, Jazz, Music, Preview Tagged: Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival, Holyoke Latin Jazz Festival, JazzFest Falmouth, Merrimack Valley Jazz Festival, Newton Jazz and Wine Festival, Newtonville Village Day and Jazz Festival, Pittsfield CityJazz Festival

Coming Attractions in Jazz: Festival Preview 2013

Under the Waterfront Tent at the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival

[Updated June 21] Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start to summer. Beaches reopen, and the jazz festival season follows close on their heels. Indeed, the first major festival kicks off this Friday, before June has even begun.

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Dance, Featured, Film, Jazz, Music, World Music Tagged: Bang on a Can Music Festival, Bar Harbor Jazz Festival, Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival, Berkshire Gateway Jazz Weekend, Burlington Discover Jazz Festival, Cambridge River Festival, Deer Isle Jazz Festival, Festival Betances, Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz, Green River Festival, Holyoke Latin Jazz Festival, Hot Steamed Jazz Festival, International Festival of Arts and Ideas, JazzFest Falmouth, Joe's Jazz and Blues Fest, Lincoln Arts Festival, Litchfield Jazz Festival, Merrimack Valley Jazz Festival, New Bedford JazzFest, New Hampshire Bass Fest, New Haven Jazz Festival, Newport Jazz Festival, Newton Jazz and Wine Festival, Northampton Jazz Festival, Onset Beach Jazz Festival, Paulie's NOLA Jazz and Blues Festival, Pittsfield CityJazz Festival, Provincetown Jazz Festival, Rockport Jazz Festival, Salem Jazz & Soul Festival, Solid Sound Festival, Somerville ArtBeat, Summer Arts Weekend

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