The bustling October Columbus Jazz Calendar inspired a handful of great Jazz Nights (& Days) Out this week, so let’s get into it! My parents and I saw the Tony Hagood Quartet play The Music of Dave Brubeck at the McConnell Arts Center on Thursday the 12th. The program focusingContinue Reading
The Columbus Jazz Orchestra opens its “Swingin’ with the CJO” 2017-2018 season October 12 – 15 with a truly special event - A CJO 45th Anniversary Extravaganza! Tickets are available here, at the CAPA Ticket Office, or by phone at (614) 469-0939. These four concerts present the high-powered CJO withContinue Reading
The Jazz Arts Group recently announced its upcoming season, and it’s indeed a special one. JAG will be celebrating the 45th anniversary of its inaugural 1973-74 season with a jam-packed and star-studded lineup of performances for jazz fans of all ages and interests. Byron Stripling and the Columbus Jazz OrchestraContinue Reading
For the penultimate installment of the Columbus Jazz Orchestra’s 2016-17 “Swingin’ with the CJO” Series, Artistic Director Byron Stripling and the band are honoring a pair of the top bandleaders of the Big Band era with an internationally recognized lineup. Jazz Arts Group presents “Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton & TheContinue Reading
Steve Lippia pulls his audience back in time with a remarkable combination of his own musical interpretation and the influence of the greatest singers of an incredible era in American music. In Simply Sinatra, he expertly delivers standards permanently engraved in music history including “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,”Continue Reading
The preeminent classical tabla virtuoso of our time, Zakir Hussain delivers brilliant performances that have established him as a national treasure in his native India and as one of the world’s most esteemed and influential musicians, renowned for his genre-defying collaborations. His playing is marked by uncanny intuition and masterfulContinue Reading
The Jazz Arts Group’s Swingin’ with the CJO series returns to the historic Southern Theatre to celebrate a different venue – the world famous Cotton Club. The Columbus Jazz Orchestra will salute the unforgettable talent and musical legacy of this legendary club in “A Night at the Cotton Club” (MarchContinue Reading
For more than 40 years, Ladysmith Black Mambazo has married the intricate rhythms and harmonies of their native South African musical traditions to the sounds and sentiment of Christian gospel music. The result is a musical and spiritual alchemy that has touched a worldwide audience representing every corner of theContinue Reading
There are a plethora of Holiday jazz performances lined up over the next month and a half or so in Columbus including Helen Welch and the CJO. The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) returns to the historic Southern Theatre to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year inContinue Reading
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