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Fresh live jazz around Rochester, October 2-8, 2025 … and beyond – JazzRochester
Ready for some fresh live jazz in and around Rochester, NY? Each week, these posts gather the listings for live jazz to hear around Rochester for the next seven days immediately below. After the "fold" (a link at the end of this week's listings) you'll find live jazz through the rest of October and a…
The “new” JazzRochester: While much is the same, I hope you like the changes . . . – JazzRochester
As I've mentioned in recent posts, the platform that JazzRochester has been published on since 2006, Typepad, announced at the end of August that I had just over 30 days to "get the hell outta here...!" I have obliged and moved the site to WordPress. We went live yesterday and while it was a lot…
Fresh live jazz around Rochester, August 21-27, 2025 … and beyond – JazzRochester
Ready for some fresh live jazz in and around Rochester, NY? Each week, these posts gather the listings for live jazz to hear around Rochester for the next seven days immediately below. After the "fold" (a link at the end of this week's listings) you'll find live jazz through the rest of August and September…
Fresh live jazz around Rochester, September 18-24, 2025 … and beyond – JazzRochester
Ready for some fresh live jazz in and around Rochester, NY? Each week, these posts gather the listings for live jazz to hear around Rochester for the next seven days immediately below. After the "fold" (a link at the end of this week's listings) you'll find live jazz through the rest of September, October, and…
Fresh live jazz around Rochester, September 4-10, 2025 … and beyond – JazzRochester
Ready for some fresh live jazz in and around Rochester, NY? Each week, these posts gather the listings for live jazz to hear around Rochester for the next seven days immediately below. After the "fold" (a link at the end of this week's listings) you'll find live jazz through the rest of September and October…
Fresh live jazz around Rochester, September 11-17, 2025 … and beyond – JazzRochester
Ready for some fresh live jazz in and around Rochester, NY? Each week, these posts gather the listings for live jazz to hear around Rochester for the next seven days immediately below. After the "fold" (a link at the end of this week's listings) you'll find live jazz through the rest of September and October…
Fresh live jazz around Rochester, August 14-20, 2025 … and beyond – JazzRochester
While there is a lot out there this coming week, you may want to check out the Webster Jazz Festival on Friday and Saturday. The shows are listed individually below. Each week, these posts gather the listings for live jazz to hear around Rochester for the next seven days immediately below. After the "fold" (a link…
Fresh live jazz around Rochester, August 7-13, 2025 … and beyond – JazzRochester
Did you check out our rebooted series on new sounds from local jazz artists? If not check it out below. This post gathers listings for live jazz to hear over the next seven days immediately below. After the "fold" (a link at the end of this week's listings) you'll find live jazz through the rest…
Fresh live jazz around Rochester, August 28 to September 3, 2025 … and beyond – JazzRochester
Ready for some fresh live jazz in and around Rochester, NY? Each week, these posts gather the listings for live jazz to hear around Rochester for the next seven days immediately below. After the "fold" (a link at the end of this week's listings) you'll find live jazz through the the last few days of…
Fresh live jazz around Rochester, July 31 through August 6, 2025 … and beyond – JazzRochester
We've gathered listings for live jazz to hear over the next seven days immediately below. After the "fold" (a link at the end of this week's listings) you'll find gigs for tomorrow and through August and some in September (plus some items of special interest beyond that....). If you're out at a venue hearing some…
New Jazz Sounds from Rochester: Jacobo Vega-Albela’s Un-Belonging – JazzRochester
While I wouldn't call it a "series" just yet, I wanted to restart the posts that I began a while back profiling new recording projects by local jazz musicians (the last one was in 2023) and decided to do it with an exciting young jazz musician and composer on the Rochester scene, Jacobo Vega-Albela. Based…
Fresh live jazz around Rochester, September 25 to October 1, 2025 … and beyond – JazzRochester
Ready for some fresh live jazz in and around Rochester, NY? Each week, these posts gather the listings for live jazz to hear around Rochester for the next seven days immediately below. After the "fold" (a link at the end of this week's listings) you'll find live jazz through the rest of October and a…
Get outta the heat and into the cool ... Live jazz around Rochester, September 7-13 - JazzRochester
It's hot outside, but there's some cool jazz on the inside if you look. It won't last long... After the fold you will find the listings I've gathered for live jazz in and around Rochester for the next seven days,...
If you look (here) you can find some ... Live jazz around ROC, August 31st to September 6th - JazzRochester
I'm afraid it's a bit light this week as I expect a number of our local jazz musicians are spending time with family and friends as the summer starts to move into our rear view mirror. But the jazz goes...
Wondering what to do with your time, why not try some of our ... Live jazz in and around ROC, August 24-30? - JazzRochester
Will have to get the post done early next Wednesday so I can get out for The Bad Plus at The Little. Maybe will see some of you there? After the fold you will find the listings I've gathered for...
Singing scat in the rain and looking for ... Live jazz around Rochester, August 17-23 - JazzRochester
I'm looking a bit further out. Had the time to start putting some October gigs in, so went ahead and did it. Check out the Webster Jazz Festival on Friday and Saturday. Hopefully, it'll stop raining for the Saturday version...
Not hot enough for you? Perhaps try a different kind of heat with some of the ... Live jazz being played around Rochester, August 10-16, 2023 - JazzRochester
I'm posting this just before I go out to check out some music in town. After the fold you will find the listings for live jazz gigs in and around Rochester for the next seven days, plus listings through the...
Summertime and the ... Live jazz around Rochester is easy, July 27 to August 2 - JazzRochester
Feeling better and hoping to get out to hear some music soon. After the fold you will find the listings for live jazz gigs in and around Rochester for the next seven days, plus listings through the rest of July...
Get out of post-RIJF doldrums and get out to hear some ... Live jazz around ROC, July 6-12, 2023 - JazzRochester
Well, Jazz in June is over and heat in July has begun. While I didn't cover the RIJF in these pages, you can hit the socials at the top of the column to the right (and our Instagram widget a...
Believe it or not, there is ... Live jazz going on all around ROC and beyond the RIJF, June 29-July 5, 2023 - JazzRochester
While I like some of you will be running around downtown soaking up the sounds, there is a lot of live jazz going on elsewhere in our fair city and beyond, through the rest of the Rochester International Jazz Festival...
JazzRochester at the 2023 RIJF: My picks for July 1, 2023 - JazzRochester
Yes, it is the end of the 20th Anniversary Edition of the Rochester International Jazz Festival. This night offered me a choice to make. Either get out and hear something new from artists whom I've never heard before, or kick...
JazzRochester at the 2023 RIJF: My picks for June 30th - JazzRochester
The penultimate night of the 2023 Rochester International Jazz Festival is going to be artists who are all new to me, although there are some alternatives who are well-known to RIJF listeners. I write this after the first night, where...
And away we go! JazzRochester during the RIJF - JazzRochester
The Rochester International Jazz Festival begins this afternoon! Nine days of music, seeing old friends and meeting new ones, and listening to an unparalleled smorgasbord of music. During the festival, while I don't completely stop posting to this site, it...
For those who can't get enough live jazz at the fest there is ... Live jazz around Rochester, June 22-28 - JazzRochester
Here we go! I hope to see you out on Jazz Street and in lines around the Rochester International Jazz Festival, which starts on Friday. I will be taking it a bit easier this year due to a health issue,...
JazzRochester at the 2023 RIJF: My picks for June 29th - JazzRochester
As the Rochester International Jazz Festival nears its frenetic last couple of days, with the accompanying crowds for the free shows on Parcel 5 and elsewhere, in the Club Pass venues there will be some great choices to wrap your...
JazzRochester at the 2023 RIJF: My picks for June 27th - JazzRochester
There are a lot of good choices on Tuesday of the Rochester International Jazz Festival. From one of the elders of jazz combined with fly fishing, they are an eclectic bunch (although admittedly lousy with saxophonists...). You do you, but...
JazzRochester at the 2023 RIJF: My picks for June 26th - JazzRochester
The fourth night of the Rochester International Jazz Festival seems to have become the "night of the guitar" as my picks are predominantly lead by pickers (or guitar is featured) . . . oh, and vocalists. However, despite the uniformity...
JazzRochester at the 2023 RIJF: My picks for Day 2 of the festival - JazzRochester
If I can make it all the way through, the second night of the Rochester International Jazz Festival will follow a familiar pattern for me--start at Kilbourn Hall, head over to the Global Jazz Now, and then to Max of...
Yes, you can hear them the other 365 days of the year, but these local musicians will also be at the 2023 RIJF! - JazzRochester
While who I choose to get out to hear during the Rochester International Jazz Festival tends to be those coming from outside Rochester, there are so many great local jazz and other musicians who gig around Rochester the other 356...
It's Wednesday, so this much be a post about ... Live jazz around Rochester, June 8-14 (and beyond...) - JazzRochester
After the fold you will find the listings for live jazz gigs in and around Rochester for the next seven days, plus listings through the rest of June and July. Please note that the regular listings posts I do on...
Asking That Perennial Question, Drummer Rich Thompson Releases New Album “Who Do You Have to Know?” - JazzRochester
Welcome to the first in what I hope will be a growing series of posts about new albums being put out by one of the talented jazz musicians or groups in and around Rochester, NY. The first is by local...
Even though the RIJF is coming, there is still some ... Live jazz around ROC, June 1-7 - JazzRochester
After the fold you will find the listings for live jazz gigs in and around Rochester for the next seven days, plus listings through the rest of June and now into July. Please note that the regular listings posts I...