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.
Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival
Fuse Preview: The 2015 Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival
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.
Coming Attractions in Jazz: Festival Preview 2015
Get your maps and open up your calendar app—it’s time to plan your summer of jazz in New England.
Fuse Preview: The 2014 Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival
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.
Coming Attractions in Jazz: Late Summer/Early Autumn Festival Update
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.
Coming Attractions in Jazz: Festival Preview 2014
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.
Fuse Gallery: BeanTown Scenes
As the festival season draws to a close, a look back at the 2013 BeanTown Jazz Festival.
Fuse Preview: The 2013 Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival
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.
Fuse News Autumn 2013 Jazz Festival Update
The 2013 jazz festival season in New England wraps up with events in Lowell, Newton, Boston, Falmouth, Pittsfield and Holyoke.
Coming Attractions in Jazz: Festival Preview 2013
[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.