Kim Kelley
August 16, 2025
Our Take: Four Weeks Until Journey of Jazz ’25 Sails
Journey of Jazz ’25, Signature Cruise Experiences first Fall sailing in nearly two decades, sails in four weeks. For those with great memories, The Jazz Cruise began as a Fall…
August 9, 2025
Our Take: Producing Music – Then and Now
Using technology in the production of music is hardly new. Much of it enhances the music, reduces the cost and improves the quality of the product. Much of it, however,…
August 6, 2025
Jazz Notes: 8.6.25
Our Tribute to the Newport Jazz Festival The year was 1954. Elaine and Louis Lorillard hired pianist George Wein to create a “family-friendly seaside jazz event.” Reacting to their disdain…
August 2, 2025
Our Take: How Do You Get To Birdland?
Most of you know the iconic, and likely apocryphal, story of the tourist walking down Broadway seeking directions to a famous destination. The tourist bumps into someone that we used…
July 30, 2025
Jazz Notes: 7.30.25
It May Not Be Jazz, But It Sure Is Cool! Both David Foster and Michael McDonald have performed on a Signature Cruise Experiences jazz program.
July 26, 2025
Our Take: 48 Days Before Journey of Jazz ’25
Years ago, we produced a jazz tour of New York. It was a glorious few days. We visited the Apollo Theater, Birdland, Blue Note, Dizzy’s Club and more. Marcus Miller…
July 23, 2025
Jazz Notes: 7.23.25
The Weather is “Hot”….So is Jazz! They say that you cannot change the weather. That is true if you stay in one place and do not move. Part of the…
July 19, 2025
Our Take: Polls
In this week’s edition of Jazz Notes, our jazz guru, Lee Mergner, analyzed the recent DownBeat Critics’ Poll which ranked jazz musicians, vocalists, bands, festivals and more. Highly subjective and…
July 17, 2025
Jazz Notes: 7.16.25
No Sports Today…Jazz is Every Day! Today is the day after Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game, which, for the first time in years was fun to watch. MLB’s All-Star Game…
July 12, 2025
Our Take: The Jazz Vocalist
While each of us can name our favorite jazz vocalists, and there would be significant agreement on many of them, I doubt that we could articulate, and certainly not agree…