The last major weekend for Outdoor Jazz this year is upon us, courtesy of the 2019 Columbus Italian Festival! “Celebrating Italian Heritage since 1980,” this annual festival continues its tradition of a strong jazz element on its entertainment stages on Friday evening, October 11th; all day Saturday, October 12th; andContinue Reading
Before roundups of Outdoor Jazz and your strong indoor and outdoor 4th of July jazz options plus the return of Kelly Delaveris, there is news of a new Columbus jazz jam session getting started in July! Saxophonist Korey Black and The Brewtet, with Will Ash on drums, Julian Dittmer onContinue Reading
I had a fun Jazz Night Out when I attended the Jazz 98.5 FM, WSAX-LP Homegrown Jazz Brew Fundraising Concert at Whitehall Yearling High School on Saturday, April 28th. The well-appointed Walter Armes Learning Center Auditorium was a great setting for some of the area’s finest musicians. I arrived inContinue Reading
Our Holiday Jazz Guide continues to offer jazzy ways to celebrate the season this week, in addition to Friday, Saturday, and Saturday options previously covered and more below! On Friday, December 8th at 6pm, The Liz Woolley Band plays a free Christmas Concert of their warm and buoyant jazz-pop atContinue Reading
There is news this week of the latest round of a modern tradition in Columbus jazz that helps wrap up the outdoor music season in style. The fifth annual Harrison West Jazz Stage will take place at the Harrison Park Gazebo, 575 West 1st Avenue, each Sunday afternoon from SeptemberContinue Reading
Jazz Arts Group recently announced the schedule for the 12th annual JazZoo, taking place on four Fridays over the course of five weeks this summer at the Columbus Zoo. Held in the lovely outdoor setting of the zoo’s Water’s Edge Events Park along the O’Shaughnessy Reservoir, these concerts will pairContinue Reading
I had a wonderful Jazz Night Out when Richard Sanford and I saw Dave Douglas’ Dada People at the Wexner Center on Tuesday the 11th. With a world-class lineup of pianist Frank Woeste, bassist Yasushi Nakamura and drummer Clarence Penn, trumpeter Douglas led a set of his and Woeste’s tunesContinue Reading
I had a wonderful Jazz Night Out when Rick Sanford and I saw Mark Lomax lead an all-star band in tribute to Ohio tenor saxophonist and theorist Logan Rollins at Notes. Rollins, a relative of the great Sonny Rollins, was an inmate in the Ohio Penitentiary who was allowed toContinue Reading
The Bungalow jazz concerts return this weekend after a Winter hiatus. Vocalist Kelly Delaveris with Brasileira bring the sounds of Brazil to the “Bungalow” to perform this Sunday, March 3rd starting at 6pm. The Bungalow Jazz Series is an occasional series of combo jazz performances in the intimacy and warmthContinue Reading