For Donna Grantis, the three-day Monterey Jazz Festival was more like a three-hour event.
Founded in 1971 as the California High School Jazz Competition and re-named the Next Generation Jazz Festival in 2004, this event has become o…
Jazz was America’s most popular music beginning in the Roaring ’20s, and like the universe itself, hasn’t stopped expanding. It is acoustic, e…
The pioneering jazz drummer/composer brings a boatload of chops to the Monterey Jazz Festival.
YettiFest 6pm-midnight Friday, noon-midnight Saturday and Sunday; Sept. 3-4 at the Bull and Bear Whiskey Bar and Taphouse, 479 Alvarado St., Monterey. $12-$40 (ages 21+). Free/Thursday kick-off party and free/Monday closing party. 655-3021, www.BullandBearCA.com.
They haven't released an official announcement yet, but National Steinbeck Center co-directors Elizabeth Welden-Smith and Lori Wood, who have …
If you've ever been out on the town on the Peninsula, especially in the proximity of live music, you might have encountered a big, sunny dispo…
Colleen Bailey talks about her leaving the National Steinbeck Center for the Monterey Jazz Festival.
It was announced yesterday, by the leak of a confidential email, that Colleen Bailey, after six years on the job, will be stepping down as exe…
If 75-year-old Monterey Jazz Festival Founder Jimmy Lyons is the king of local jazz, then 38-year-old Tm Jackson is its crown prince.