Birdland Jazz Club was packed on Monday night, June 30, for Amanda Green & Friends, a sensational evening of song and ...

Last week, Amanda McBroom unveiled highlights from her forthcoming album WINTERSONG at Birdland, a collection of mostly new songs on a holiday theme. It feels strangely incongruous on a sultry ...

Florida Studio Theatre brings back singer Carole J. Bufford for her fourth show in Sarasota, a new cabaret that touches on ...

Jazz bands rarely had occasion to tour like rock stars, but Weather Report hit the road with a light show, lasers and film projections, between 1978-81 as part of what was arguably the jazz-fusion ...

"The Birdland [club] needed a theme song for a six-hour disc-jockey show that they had in the early '50s," Shearing said. "So I wrote this thing. I heard it in my head.

Combining Birdland (fusion jazz) and Long Distance Runaround (progressive rock) into a seamless medley is a fitting way to begin this high energy album, Prestidigitation". It could be the best ...

She’s sung just about everything, yet she keeps finding new songs to sing. At Birdland, her band — billed as “the Guitar Heroes” — consists of two French guitarists, Michael Valeanu playing electric ...

By the mid-eighties, Valenti recalled, everything had calmed down but also turned upside down. “By 1965, when the first Birdland club closed, most of the musicians had moved to Europe and Asia.

Kurt Elling’s Latest Run at Birdland Features the Singer at His Most Accessible. Yet the program is hardly a concession to commercialism: The main program’s songs are mostly by cutting edge jazz ...

An engagement – gig, that is – at Birdland goes right to the top of any musician’s résumé; on March 7 it landed on Norwood-Tiger’s. Her Birdland debut was a smashing success.