Summer is usually a dormant season for South Florida musicians. Especially jazz musicians, who frequently perform in establishments that sometimes eliminate live entertainment during summers because most tourists have left for cooler climates. Which means that area fans of one of America’s greatest audio art forms are also figuratively left out in the cold while bearing … [Read more...]
Local piano legend Copeland Davis holds court at West Palm café
When it comes to Florida natives who are still performing in the Sunshine State 50-plus years after starting their careers here, the list is very short. Unlike West Palm Beach-born jazz/fusion guitarist Scott Henderson — who wowed area crowds with the bands Pure Hell and Paradise before moving to Los Angeles; touring and recording with Chick Corea, Jean-Luc Ponty, and Joe … [Read more...]
Season Preview 2024-25: Stalwarts keep the flame alive for jazz fans
If all music forms encompassed a herd of prey animals, jazz might be the unfortunate member struggling to keep up at its rear flank. It’s unfortunate, and not the way it should be, but sadly the way it is in the modern music biz. South Florida has numerous music schools producing quality jazz musicians, yet many need to go into teaching, perform and record popular music, and/or … [Read more...]
Northwood’s Café Centro becomes a haven for live jazz
Jazz is dead: Take it from a popular touring jam band launched in 1998, or a popular recording label founded in 2017. It's the name of both. The same doomsday outlook has recently been assumed — with some validity depending on the geographic market and especially locally — regarding the chances of finding either affordable or quality live music in general. And especially … [Read more...]