The Ohio State University School of Music presents the 42nd Annual OSU Jazz Festival March 20th through 24th at Weigel Hall on campus. The festival’s strong tradition – I had a wonderful time at last year’s festival – continues with five nights of jazz concerts and a Sunday afternoon ofContinue Reading
This weekend the Columbus Arts Festival, powered by American Electric Power and produced by the Greater Columbus Arts Council, celebrates its 57th year of bringing the best in fine art and fine craft to Columbus. The festival will be held along the Scioto Mile Downtown, including Bicentennial Park and GenoaContinue 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
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