Jazz Reviews

Don Aliquo Presents “Tribute to Stan Getz” at the Frist

A temperate spring day drew Nashville locals and tourists to mill about downtown, filling the streets with party buses, pedal taverns, strolling pedestrians, and others riding motorized scooters. As always, the Frist Art Museum was a popular destination for the public who were entreated to another installment of the Nashville Jazz Workshop’s Jazz on the Move series on April 14. The presentation, titled “Tribute to Stan Getz” was led by saxophonist Don Aliquo who is Professor of Saxophone and Jazz Studies at Middle Tennessee State University. This was the final installment of the series for 2019, and it featured pianist Read More

Fiddler on the Roof at TPAC

Fiddler on the Roof at TPAC On Tuesday, I took a short step away from the classical music world, and enjoyed a magical night of Broadway! TPAC is currently rounding Read More

At the Schermerhorn and then Rudy’s: A Saturday Night Out in Music City

On April 13, on a day where the rain just wouldn’t seem to stop, the Nashville Symphony presented a concert which featured Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s epic Fourth Symphony “Fate” Opus Read More

Oracle Blue Brings Swank Pop to Rudy’s

Inclement weather did not stop the turnout to Rudy’s Jazz Room Saturday night, March 30 to see regional favorites Oracle Blue perform their own brand of neo-soul. Combining original songs Read More

Jeff “Tain” Watts Dazzles Alongside Performers at the 2019 MTSU Illinois Jacquet Jazz Festival

By Derek Volkmann The weekend of March 16, 2019 proved to be a bustling time for the Middle Tennessee State University School of Music. The School of Music held its Read More

Christian McBride and Edgar Meyer Delight at the Blair School of Music

On Thursday evening, March 14, 2019, the Ingram Hall of Performing Arts at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music was filled with campus students, alumni, and other members of the Read More

Dara Tucker and Friends Inspire and Illuminate at the Frist

A sunny day in Music City welcomed a brief respite from the spring rains that had been saturating Nashville during the several weeks prior. As such, the community turned out Read More

The Gypsy Hombres Revive a Lost Art

The warm atmosphere of Rudy’s Jazz Room welcomed me from the unexpectedly cold evening of February 28. I let the hostess know I was there, and took a seat at Read More

Ben Rosenblum Trio Impresses at Rudy’s

It was a cold February evening in Nashville, Tennessee yet from down the block you could hear the burning fast up-tempo swing of a piano trio emanating from the confines Read More

Intersection presents its third ‘Upon these Shoulders’ event with Hannibal Lokumbe’s ‘Crucifixion Resurrection.’

On February 9, 2019 Intersection and Choral Arts Link presented its third Upon These Shoulders concert at Fisk University. This annual concert series seeks to highlight “the voices of civil Read More