The Weekend is Here and This Is Jazz Week!

By

Doug Ruffin

President,

Boston Music Coalition

Jazz week ’11 is happening now through Sunday May 8^th. Free events at the library, all ages music events inside and out. Jazz is playing throughout greater Boston. Find the traditional, the not so traditional and the unexpected. Not just in the variety of jazz music but the amazing venues to see and hear jazz greats a long side with new talent.

So as to not miss a single blue note; we are providing you with a link to this weekends schedule for Jazz week ’11.  Click HERE for the Schedule.

Resources

Music

This Week's Number 1 Billboard Jazz Song

                                                                Boney James

                                                                  "Contact"

Click HERE for the latest Billboard Jazz Chart

Venues

Here are a few of the Boston area Jazz spots

Ryles Jazz Club

http://www.rylesjazz.com/

212 Hampshire St.
Cambridge, MA  02135

617-876-9330

Scullers Jazz Club

http://www.scullersjazz.com/

400 Soldiers Field Road
Boston, MA

617 562-4111

Slades Bar & Grill

958 Tremont St.
Roxbury, MA

(617) 442-4600

The Beehive

http://www.beehiveboston.com/

541 Tremont Street, Boston

Center for the Arts
Boston, MA  02116
617-423-0069

Click HERE for a complete list of area venues

Jazz Radio

WBRS 100.1

http://www.wbrs.org/

"Jazz Cafeteria"
Mon-Thu: 12PM-1:30PM

WERS 88.9

http://www.wers.org/

"Music for the Independent Mind"
Mon-Fri: 2AM-7PM; Sat: 2-10AM; Sun: 3-6AM

WGBH 89.7

http://www.wgbh.org/

Eric Jackson - "Jazz with Eric in the Evening"
Mon-Thu: 8PM-12AM

Steve Schwartz - "Jazz at Studio Four"
Fri: 8PM-12AM

Bob Parlocha - "Jazz with Bob Parlocha"
Mon-Thu: 12AM-5AM

Dee Dee Bridgewater - "Jazz Set"
Fri: 12AM-1AM; Sun: 9PM-10PM

Ray Smith - "Jazz Decades"
Sun: 7PM-8PM

"Riverwalk Jazz"
Sun 8PM-9PM

WHRB 95.3

http://www.whrb.org/

"Jazz Spectrum"
Mon-Fri: 5AM-1PM; Sat: 5-9AM

WICN 90.5 (Worcester)

http://www.wicn.org/programs

Jazz seven days a week.

Links

Boston Jazz Society:                www.bostonjazzsociety.org

Jazz Composers Alliance:        http://jazzcomposersalliance.org/

Marblehead Jazz Associates:   http://www.marbleheadjazz.org/

New England Jazz Alliance:    http://www.nejazz.org/