Tagged Jazz

As someone who used to binge watch “The Nanny” on Nick at Nite all the time, I never thought I would be able to see the artist of its theme song live, and love it, but on Saturday Oct. 5, I did. Ann...

If you’ve ever heard the smooth, mellifluous sound of jazz music, then you know how it can make a person feel. A couple of riffs and suddenly it’s as if you’ve been transported to another place, another...

On March 23, the Fairfield University Dance Ensemble returned to the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts stage for yet another unreal performance, this year known as “Can’t Stop Dancin.” After several...

As a member of The Mirror for the last four years, I’ve covered more events than I ever wanted to. However, there has been one exception to this, that being the annual Fairfield University Dance Ensemble...

For a jazz ensemble in the 21st century, transposing this timeless genre is no easy task for a generation brought up on the rhymes and rhythms of rap and pop. Fortunately, Music Director of Jazz and Popular...

A National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Masters Fellow and the first Pulitzer Prize winner in music for jazz musicians, Wynton Marsalis has become somewhat of a modern day Renaissance man. With nine Grammys...

Philadelphia string-trio Time for Three performed last Saturday, Feb. 28, at the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts. The group is comprised of three performers: violinists Zach de Pue and Nick Kendall and...

New Duke is an eight-piece jazz ensemble that reinterprets the sentiment of Duke Ellington’s music with a fusion of rock, hip-hop and reggae grooves. The ensemble performs mashups of other music giants such...