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Jackson served as the festival's artistic director for 32 years. He will continue to run the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz.
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For the first time in its history, the Monterey Jazz Festival will be completely virtual this year. It won’t be live. Instead, it will be appointment…
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Batiste, the band leader for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, demonstrates his "everything in the pot" style of piano. Fulks and Lewis share songs from their new album, Wild! Wild! Wild!
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When the Monterey Jazz Festival kicks off tomorrow, it will be celebrating 60 years of the event. I recently spoke with Tim Jackson, the artistic director…
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The Monterey Jazz Festival, which supports KAZU, is one of the most iconic annual jazz events in the world. But despite making its home in Monterey, this…
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The late journalist Herb Wong covered the Monterey Jazz Festival since its start in 1958. Known for his encyclopedic knowledge of jazz, Wong was also a…
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The dark auditorium inside the Museum of Monterey is so small that the jazz music roars. It’s almost overpowering, and yet, the people in the audience are…