Had we prayed to the sun gods for good weather, it’s unlikely they could’ve produced a day as perfect as the final one of the Rochester International Jazz Festival on Saturday. With a high of 77, minimal humidity, and barely a cloud in the sky, it was the perfect backdrop…
Posts published in June 2026
11:03 PM Two sides of New Orleans tonight on the free stages. It was a sweet night of music. I’m headed to the Hyatt late night jam to close out the festival. Keep an eye on our socials for updates on any big names who get up to jam. 9:08…
A hypnotic beat, clings and clangs on the drums, and an urgent voice in a parlando of social calls all came from the voice of Brittany Davis, the blind, non-binary Seattle singer, at Montage Music Hall on Friday night. The first stop on my daily jazz festival trek was an…
10:15 PM Kyle Roussel can shift on a dime between second-line marches and Beethoven sonatas, which is exactly what he did in Kilbourn Hall with his trio. Then, as a quartet with a guest singer, the band launched into soul/R&B, always with a touch of New Orleans bluesy licks. I’m…
“There’s no boundaries to music,” Camila Meza said in her early set in Kilbourn Hall last night. The Chilean singer-songwriter/guitarist said she was attracted to the New York jazz scene and, from there, all the beats, harmonies, and languages of Latin-American music and jazz tumbled together to create Meza, the…