NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Smooth jazz legends Jonathan Butler and Gerald Albright will headline the 42nd Annual Norfolk Waterfront Jazz Festival on Aug. 21 and 22, 2026, at Town Point Park in Norfolk, Va.

Supervisor Tim Hubbard and Jazz Loft President Thomas Manuel sign the contract of sale for the Vail-Leavitt Music Hall on Dec. 16, 2025. RiverheadLOCAL/Emil Breitenbach Jr. Riverhead Town on Tuesday ...

Smooth jazz violinist Michael Ward, a fixture at festivals, nightclubs and special events in New Orleans and beyond for decades, died suddenly Monday after collapsing. He was 60. A cause of death has ...

In a faded photograph on his desk at Stony Brook University, Thomas Manuel smiles alongside jazz legends Lee Konitz and Percy Brice after a 2007 performance at the Vail-Leavitt Music Hall in Riverhead ...

The Riverhead Town Board approved The Jazz Loft as the qualified and eligible operator of the historic Vail-Leavitt Music Hall on Tuesday night, setting the stage for the 144-year-old downtown theater ...

Founder Tom Manuel and other colleagues made their case for The Jazz Loft in a qualified and eligible hearing on Oct. 16, where they proved to the Riverhead Town Board the Stony Brook-based nonprofit ...

Ah, the 80s, when a band with a quizzical name could emerge from absolutely nowhere with a captivating single that captured the world. And, just as often, such a band would retreat to anonymity. That ...

The Jazz Loft's 10th Annual Harbor Jazz Festival, which ran from Wednesday, September 17 through Saturday, September 20, 2025, offered high-caliber hits to please both jazz neophytes and the fully ...

CAIRO, Ill. (KFVS) - The 6th annual Smooth Jazz Festival returns to Cairo at the end of August. Presented by the Harold S. Jones Fine Arts Center, the free community event starts at noon on August 31.

SCRANTON, Pa. — There are a lot of people in the world who believe the genre of jazz is dead. Those people probably haven't been to Scranton. "I think it's awesome, I don't typically listen to jazz ...

Jazz musician Chuck Mangione, who had one of the biggest pop-jazz instrumental crossover hits of all time with “Feels So Good” in the 1970s, died Tuesday at age 84. The death was reported by multiple ...

Chuck Mangione, the fedora-sporting flugelhorn and trumpet player whose 1977 smooth jazz hit “Feels So Good” left an indelible mark on American pop culture, has died. In a statement reported by ...