Follow this page for live updates from the Rochester International Jazz Festival on Sunday, June 21. Make sure to check out Jazz Festival Day 3: Daily Festival Guide (below) for reviews from last night and recommendations for tonight.
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Saturday was an unexpectedly strong night of shows and might end up as one of the most memorable ones of the festival for me for the high quality of music I heard. Some were older masters, others were the next generation of greats, but all were class acts. I’ll review…
Rochester never ceases to surprise when it comes to weather, so when the rains and clouds finally parted, we were greeted with gorgeous weather for the first night of the festival. The setting sun blanketed downtown Rochester with a golden sheen, and the temperatures were as mild and comfortable as…
We wait all year for this moment in Rochester: the start of the Rochester International Jazz Festival in June. The festival began 25 years ago and has been going strong ever since, despite the two years off due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Between 2002 and 2026, the festival has grown…
Like a Jedi master, Hiromi is an uncompromising and musically unrestrained force at the piano. She brings her latest creative project, Sonicwonder, to the Rochester International Jazz Festival on Tuesday, June 23.
Alexa Tarantino, an Eastman School of Music alum, performed at last year's Rochester International Jazz Festival as the first full-time female member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. She returns to the festival on Saturday in Kilbourn Hall for two sets, but this time leading her quartet and playing works from her latest album, The Roar and the Whisper.