via Eurweb Gardena Jazz Festival Draws Thousands of Fans *The 22nd Annual Gardena Jazz Festival lit up Rowley Park on August 24, 2025, with over 7,000 jazz lovers in attendance. Blessed with perfect Sunday weather, fans gathered to enjoy food vendors, local merchants,…
via Louder Stories Issue #344 Walter Trout This Walter Trout x Classic Rock bundle comes with an exclusive, limited-edition Guitarwrist bracelet, made from guitar strings played by Walter Trout himself. Walter Trout returns with Sign Of The Times, a brand…
Musical guest Pedrito Martínez Group performs “Ilusión Óptica” featuring Bill Murray for The Tonight Show. Watch the video here Pedrito Martínez on TKA
All of us at The Kurland Agency are saddened to announce the passing of Eddie Palmieri. Eddie was a legendary pianist whose innovative fusion of Afro-Caribbean rhythms with jazz harmony revolutionized Latin music. A career spanning over 60 years, a…
via Uk Jazz News The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and pianist and composer Gonzalo Rubalcaba. His new album, First Meeting: Live at Dizzy’s Club, a collaboration with saxophonist Chris Potter, bassist Larry Grenadier, and drummer Eric Harland, was released 11 July via 5Passion Records.…
From Was Not Was to Bonnie Raitt to the Rolling Stones AND MORE! You’ll dig this! Don Was on TKA Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on iHeart Podcasts Listen on Amazon Podcasts
via Downbeat Magazine When Red Baraat hits the stage and starts pumping out its ecstatic melange of genre-busting music that fuses 18th century Indian ensembles with Bollywood, Bhangra, Jain devotional songs, New Orleans brass bands and hip-hop born in Brooklyn,…
via UK Jazz News The following is jazz journalist Morgan Enos’s interview with harpist, composer, and bandleader Brandee Younger. Her new album, Gadabout Season, featuring bassist-producer Rashaan Carter and drummer Allan Mednard, as well as guests Shabaka, Courtney Bryan, Niia, and Josh Johnson, was released 13 June via…
via The Wall Street Journal On an exuberantly original new album, the singer and pianist reimagine jazz standards from Duke Ellington, George Gershwin and others. The songs that constitute the Great American Songbook will bend, but they won’t break. This body…
via Guitarist Electric guitar virtuoso Matteo Mancuso is the latest guitarist to link up with Jason Becker, with the pair sharing a moment “that beautifully bridged generations of guitar greatness”. Becker was one of the hottest guitarists in the world in the late 1980s,…