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 year. If you owe money – you owe money. Nothing you can do but write the check and move on. Whichever your outcome, at least […]

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 festival. Though the weather outside is frightening, the music inside is amazing. Proof that good music overcomes bad weather. That is not the message you […]

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 some thoughts, opinions and ideas about how JAM should be celebrated, what it means and why this music is so important. Jazz Notes is received […]

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 game. Bring your money and something comfortable upon which to sit. JAM reminds me of the Star Trek Cruise we produced for years. Though our […]

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 dedicate the next few editions of Jazz Notes to various topics of interest related to jazz and to share how many of our cruise programs […]

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 April Fool’s Day is curious at best, disappointing at worst. If there was ever any music genre that we would not joke about or play […]

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 been the month selected for this celebration of a true American music genre and each year April 30th has been named International Jazz Day, a […]

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 all time by many. I own virtually every recording Oscar Peterson made. At work, often, I will start playing his music from the time I arrive until […]

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 swoon.  It is no coincidence that Gregory Porter is the first and only vocalist to serve as a host (Co-Host of Journey of Jazz) of […]

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 60 – 75 minute show which traces the history of jazz from the early days in New Orleans through the end of BeBop and the […]