Due to being out of town at a funeral (and now on a short vacation with my wife's family, I'm afraid I'm a little late with the listings and apologize to those of you with gigs on Thursday. In addition to fireworks and BBQ, why don't you take your out-of-town guests out to see some of the fine jazz around town during the next seven (holi)days.  Here are the listings: Thursday, July 3rd Matt Va...

While walking around the Rochester jazz festival, you may have seen José DaCosta, the man behind the excellent Exodus to Jazz series of jazz concerts in Rochester over the past few years, as he handed out postcards with the third season's artists. José is bringing in some amazing artists for the third season. In case you didn't get a postcard during the RIJF, here is the press release...

I'm going to try something new and provide my readers another way to voice their thoughts.  So what do you think about the Rochester International Jazz Festival and our coverage here.  I have created a questionnaire for you to fill out and let us know what you thought after attending the festival. Your answers will be recorded and I'll compile them and share them with the readers of this...

You may be thinking...haven't we heard enough jazz?  There's always more music in Rochester and one of the great things about this town is that the RIJF is not the only time you can hear jazz in town.  Here are the listings for the next seven days. Thursday, June 26th Matt Valerio @ The Grill at Strathallan, 6:30 pm Jazz Dawgs @ Bistro 135, 7:00 pm Trio East @ Little Theatre Café, 7:30 p...

Took me awhile to recover enough from nine days of too much beer and street meat, and too little sleep. Now that those are all digested, I might be able to look back on the Seventh Rochester International Jazz Festival with clearer eyes.  This may be one of several posts recapping 2008's RIJF and looking toward 2009.  Although not doubling like it did in previous years, the Rochester Inte...