When singer and trumpeter Anne Linders moved from St. Louis to Boston in 2020, she wanted to put together a new version of her lively traditional jazz band Annie and the Fur Trappers. That proved to ...
The lineup for this year’s Tucson Jazz Festival, as has become the norm, is blessed with a fine balance of well-known names and some that are waiting to be discovered, some traditional jazz bands and ...
For years, purist fans of traditional New Orleans jazz have worried their favorite music is a dying art form. Oh, sure, something like trad jazz, loud and frenetic with a side helping of street funk, ...
For the past couple of months, OffBeat has posted a survey on our website, just to get an idea of what our readers like, their opinions on political matters related to music, how they use information ...
He is a 10-time Grammy winner, recipient of the Latin Grammys' Lifetime Achievement Award, and was honored at the Kennedy ...
The Austin Traditional Jazz Society will close out its 2021-22 season with a concert by the Silver Creek Jazz Band. Silver Creek has been together since 2007 and recently represented the Society at a ...
Sorry to return to the Mercury prize for a second week, but this is only a passing spin-off from that much-discussed event. Observer music critic Kitty Empire, one of the Mercury judges, described the ...
Bolton’s Eagley Jazz Club is one of the six places in the North West you can hear live traditional or trad jazz. The ...
Annie Linders fell in love with traditional jazz while riding a boat down the Mississippi River. There are other ways, other places to fall in love with traditional jazz, but none of them are nearly ...
The Austin Traditional Jazz Society presents the Dirty River Jazz Band, started by music students at Texas Lutheran University in Seguin. They now play in the Greater San Antonio area, and are one of ...