San Jose Jazz Summer Fest, returns to Plaza de César Chávez, turning the heart of downtown San Jose into an immersive cultural mecca. With indoor and outdoor venues featuring artists representing the ...

Summer in Boston usually abounds with opportunities to hear live music that draws on new and old traditions from across Latin America. The future of some of these opportunities is uncertain. Many of ...

Submitted photo The bluesy Gordon Bonham, well known to local audiences, is part of the The Blue Side jazz ensemble performing downtown today. A big boost of jazz gets a dose of the blues today as the ...

Longtime South Bay music fans might remember when San Jose Jazz’s Summer Fest boasted of being the nation’s largest free jazz festival. Those days are long gone, but Summer Fest still offers a bigger ...

There’s no better pulse-pounding three days in downtown than San Jose Jazz Summer Fest weekend, and Friday’s opening night was a perfect example of why. Music just flooded downtown all night — from ...

Steve Alcala, a music teacher and trumpet player, fell in love with Latin Jazz, but very little sheet music was available to help his students learn. So he started a sheet music publishing company.