Kim Kelley
April 19, 2025
Our Take: A (Jazzy) Easter Basket For You
No matter what your religious beliefs may be, sometime in your life you either gave or received an Easter Basket. Though inextricably tied to Easter, over the years Easter baskets…
April 16, 2025
Jazz Notes: 4.16.25
Tax Day +1: Let’s Celebrate! Every year April 15 looms as a day of reckoning for taxpayers. If you are receiving a refund, you probably paid too much during the…
April 12, 2025
Our Take: Hanging at Berks Jazz Fest
This edition is coming to you from the Berks Jazz Fest. The calendar says it is Spring. That message did not make it to Reading, Pennsylvania, home of this amazing…
April 10, 2025
Jazz Notes: 4.10.25
Celebrating Jazz Appreciation Month ’25 Thus far, we have been directing the various conversations about Jazz Appreciation Month. We love doing so, for sure, but we know that others have…
April 5, 2025
Our Take: JAM is Our Jam
For those who bet on this week’s Our Take being a commentary on Jazz Appreciation Month, you win. For those who felt otherwise, you are invited to our weekly poker…
April 2, 2025
Jazz Notes: 4.2.25
Celebrating Jazz Appreciation Month ’25 As promised in earlier editions of Jazz Notes, and in the recent edition of The Weekender, to commemorate JAM this year, Signature Cruise Experiences will…
March 29, 2025
Our Take: Almost Jazz Appreciation Month
Earlier this week, we highlighted the soon-to-be beginning of Jazz Appreciation Month. Well, we are still not there, but we are getting very close! That JAM starts each year on…
March 26, 2025
Jazz Notes: 3.26.25
Celebrating Jazz Appreciation Month ’25 Since 2001, the National Museum of American History has curated a month-long tribute to the history of jazz called Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM). April has…
March 24, 2025
Our Take: Oscar Peterson at 100
Oscar Peterson celebrates his Centennial Birthday in 2025. The Canadian born jazz pianist is considered one of the top pianists of all time by most fans and the greatest of…
March 19, 2025
Jazz Notes: 3.19.25
Though instrumentalists dominate the world of jazz and our cruise programs, jazz fans have always cherished those few, very talented jazz vocalists who can take a tune and make you…