Kim Kelley
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…
March 17, 2025
Our Take: How the History of Jazz has Become the Journey of Jazz
It is one thing to talk about the History of Jazz. It is quite another thing to make that story live with music. For years, Marcus Miller has presented a…
March 8, 2025
Our Take: Countdown to Berks Jazz Fest
One of the longest standing relationships that we at Signature Cruise Experiences have is our partnership with Berks Jazz Fest. In part, this is due to the broad array of…
March 5, 2025
Jazz Notes: 3.5.25
Jazz Notes is Back! As we shared a few weeks ago, editions of Jazz Notes were paused while Signature Cruise Experiences was “at sea” with The Jazz Cruise ’25, Botti…
March 1, 2025
Our Take: Cruise Musings
Our final cruise program, The Smooth Jazz Cruise ’25.2, ended on Tuesday. Since then, we have pressed forward to address Journey of Jazz ’25, which sails this Fall, and to…
February 22, 2025
Our Take: Honoring David Sanborn
Today is Day five of The Smooth Jazz Cruise ’25.2, the final program of our run of four cruises this Winter Season. Our last Our Take was on Day five…
February 15, 2025
Our Take: From Botti to Smooth
Botti at Sea ’25 ended on Tuesday morning and The Smooth Jazz Cruise ’25.1 was ready to go by noon that same day. Watching the transformation of the ship, the…
February 8, 2025
Our Take: From “Straight Ahead” to Showtime
Tuesday marked the last day of The Jazz Cruise ’25 and the first day of Chris Botti at Sea II (’25). Musically, we moved from a week of 100 of…
February 1, 2025
Our Take: The Jazz Cruise & More
Reporting from The Jazz Cruise ’25. Today is day five of the cruise and I am thrilled to report that the week thus far has been wonderful. The ship is…