So long, RVA!
Tonight, Roger Carroll and Alan Parker’s saxophone-guitar duo begins a new weekly gig at The Belvidere at Broad, a relatively new restaurant and bar downtown, and Wise & Otherwise — led by saxophonist David Wise — plays Emilio’s. Both are from 7-10pm and free. On Friday night, The CMP Group returns for their second week […]
Tomorrow night, the Richmond Jazz Society’s Guest Educators Series will feature local favorite The Butterbean Jazz Quartet. The group has been perfect Sunday night entertainment for years now at Bottoms Up Pizza and their current roster is a great one, having released a CD in 2009. Says RJS about the group: The Butterbean Jazz Quartet […]
Local jazz writer and host of Freedom Jazz Dance on 90.1 FM WDCE Ken Hohman contributed an essay this week to All About Jazz entitled “The Rebirth of Real Jazz in Richmond.” He describes in detail his experiences seeing and listening to groups like the Jason Scott Quintet and Brian Jones as well as the […]
Rev It Up!, a new coffee shop in the Uptown neighborhood on West Main Street, will be hosting weekly jazz in January starting this Friday. Rev It Up! took over the spot that Main Street Java (and before that, Common Cup) vacated when it closed in August. The CMP Group — Marcus Tenney on tenor sax, […]
Ombak’s long-standing Wednesday night gig at the popular Mediterranean and Moroccan restaurant Cous Cous is being discontinued by restaurant management, confirmed earlier this week by band leader Bryan Hooten. Hooten said management offered to host a farewell show but Ombak will not do it due to a schedule conflict. The venue’s ridding of live music […]
In November, Fight the Big Bull kicked off their new gig at Balliceaux. Lucas Fritz launched the VCU Jazz @ The Camel series that takes place every month and features student-run ensembles. The VCU Jazz Orchestra I put on a concert complete with Johnny Hodges impressions and on-stage sight reading, and it was at this […]
We’re on the home stretch of 2009 with the month when this site launched. October was filled with huge and wonderful events like the 2nd Street Festival, Folk Festival, and Musicircus (covered here in a John Cage exposition and recapped with photos, video, and audio). RVAJazz presented Glenn Wilson Quartet near the end of the […]
School’s back in session and tons of great things are happening. Drummer Brian Jones launched his Third Tuesday music series and spoke to me about his array of new albums that would be released. The Jazz Beyond Festival brought European avant-garde legend Gunter Hampel to The Camel. Another festival, the Armenian Food Festival, got me […]
Balliceaux opened up on sacred ground but soon had people raving about its food. It wouldn’t be long before they began booking music. No BS! Brass and Verbatim took advantage of the summer to take their music on the road. Bryan Hooten wrote recaps of the brass band’s tour (part 1, part 2). At the […]
Halfway through the year, there was no slowing down for jazz in Richmond. One weekend in particular was packed with music to hear. I summed up the scene in the State of Jazz article, and featured Scott Burton, Reggie Pace, and Matt White in Three Richmond Music Moguls. Former VCU student and Chris Potter Underground […]
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