Jimmy Lyons

reduced from last year, as it tries to build up cash reserves. Read More

For the first time in jazz's brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their eighth decade. Read More

The areas hardest hit by February's ice storm are now being cleaned up. Read More

"I looked away and heard Mel Torme. I looked back and saw a high school kid," exclaimed retired management consultant Robert Mulford, sighing deeply after hearing Monterey Jazz Festival's Next Generation Jazz Orchestra vocalist Ben Lusher's luscious ballad "Don't Worry About Me" and furious scatting on "Just Friends." Read More

For Cecil, 33 now, The Take 3 experience will be important for the opportunity its extraordinary duration affords him to develop new ideas and achieve deeper levels of interaction with the two musicians he brings with him, Jimmy Lyons, alto saxophone, and Sunny Murray, drums. Read More

This year's sumptuous offerings are neatly bookended with the Miles/'Trane tributes and the appearance of Brubeck – his 15th appearance at the festivval – honoring the 50th anniversary of Time Out, the recording that catapulted jazz into the mainstream. Read More

The pianist Erroll Garner was one of the great improvisers of all time and not exclusively in his music. Read More