NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Smooth jazz legends Jonathan Butler and Gerald Albright will headline the 42nd Annual Norfolk Waterfront Jazz Festival on Aug. 21 and 22, 2026, at Town Point Park in Norfolk, Va.

Just one night after taking down the best team in the Eastern Conference in the Detroit Pistons, the Utah Jazz would wind up getting a second-straight win on the calendar vs. the San Antonio Spurs in ...

Smooth jazz violinist Michael Ward, a fixture at festivals, nightclubs and special events in New Orleans and beyond for decades, died suddenly Monday after collapsing. He was 60. A cause of death has ...

Ah, the 80s, when a band with a quizzical name could emerge from absolutely nowhere with a captivating single that captured the world. And, just as often, such a band would retreat to anonymity. That ...

Is Joni Mitchell a jazz artist? Short answer: No. Long answer: No, but... Nevertheless, there's a new box set, 61 tracks and just under five hours long, called Joni's Jazz that pulls tracks from ...

I’M JENNIFER BAILEYS, OUR FRIENDS WITH DESTINATION SMOOTH JAZZ ARE HERE TO TELL US ABOUT THE EVENT. FIRST, INTRODUCE YOURSELVES AND LET’S TALK ABOUT THIS AMAZING EVENT. I’M MARK BURTON, EXECUTIVE ...

CAIRO, Ill. (KFVS) - The 6th annual Smooth Jazz Festival returns to Cairo at the end of August. Presented by the Harold S. Jones Fine Arts Center, the free community event starts at noon on August 31.

In 1998, the idea that Vancouver could offer an appropriately prestigious stage for jazz royalty — and draw appropriately sizable audiences to a run-down downtown — seemed like a stretch. Looking back ...

SCRANTON, Pa. — There are a lot of people in the world who believe the genre of jazz is dead. Those people probably haven't been to Scranton. "I think it's awesome, I don't typically listen to jazz ...

Jazz musician Chuck Mangione, who had one of the biggest pop-jazz instrumental crossover hits of all time with “Feels So Good” in the 1970s, died Tuesday at age 84. The death was reported by multiple ...