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Boston Jazz Week

Jazz Preview: Radio Host Eric Jackson Anchors Jazz Week 2018

Eric Jackson at the Beantown Jazz Festival

WGBH’s Eric Jackson has truly been the voice of jazz in Boston for more than forty years. This year, Boston Jazz Week centers around a celebration of Eric’s four decades at the heart of the jazz scene in the Boston metro area.

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Preview, Radio Tagged: Boston Jazz Week, Eric Jackson

Jazz Week 2014: Wall-to-Wall Jazz with No Walls

Sax doctor Emilio Lyons at work.

Jazz Week 2014′s theme of “No Walls: A salute to the power of jazz to bring people together” emphasizes the place of jazz on the world stage.

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Preview, World Music Tagged: Berklee College of Music, Berklee Global Jazz Institute, Boston Jazz Week, Boston Public Library, Boston Public Schools, Danilo Perez, Emilio Lyons, Fred Taylor, harvard-university, Herbie Hancock, International Jazz Day, Jazz Appreciation Month, Jazz April, Jazz Journalists Association, JazzBoston, Mark Harvey, MIT, New England Conservatory, Smithsonian Institution, UNESCO

Fuse News: Mercury Falls, and Jazz Is Still in the House

Saxophonist Patrick Cress

The idea of house concerts seems to be getting some legs. The “fabulous world headquarters loft of Accurate Records” again plays host, this time to the eclectic San Francisco band, Mercury Falls.

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Classical Music, Coming Attractions, Fuse News, Jazz, Music, Rock Tagged: Accurate Records, Boston Jazz Week, Mercury Falls, Patrick Cress, Russ Gershon

Coming Attractions: Jazz Week 2012 Update

Swarms in the train station! Improv in the library! Video game hits and poetry! Must be Jazz Week–and there’s plenty more, including a major CD release by Argentinian bassist Fernando Huergo paying tribute to the land of the Albiceleste.

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Books, Coming Attractions, Featured, Jazz, Music, Video Games, Visual Arts Tagged: Boston Jazz Week, Boston Public Library, JazzBoston, Multi-media, Poetry, South Station, Video Games

Coming Attractions: Jazz Week 2012

John Harbison's Gatsby Songs

Jazz songs by composer John Harbison? An ensemble devoted to the music of Björk? A quartet taking over a theatre and breaking the “fourth wall”? Jazz Week 2012 stakes out territory on the permeable boundary where jazz encounters other genres and even other art forms.

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Jazz, Music Tagged: Boston Jazz Week, Jazz, John Harbison

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