Common performs during the Black Radio Experience at Meritage Resort & Spa in Napa on Aug. 30, 2024. He will headline the San Jose Jazz Summer Fest in August. Martin Lacey/STAFF. Rapper and actor Common, gospel and soul music icon Mavis Staples and New Orleans pop and jazz pianist PJ…

Herbie Hancock performs at The Greek Theatre in Berkeley on Aug. 23, 2019. The jazz icon will perform at San Jose Jazz Summer Fest in August. Sean Liming/STAFF. Fourteen-time Grammy-winning jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, soul and funk group Maze honoring Frankie Beverly (who will pass the microphone to Tony…

La Santa Cecilia will perform at the 2022 San Jose Jazz Winter Fest in February. San Jose Jazz has announced the return of its annual winter music festival, Winter Fest, which will take place from Feb. 11 to 27 at various venues throughout the South Bay. The lineup for…

San Jose Jazz, which has had to cancel its annual summer and winter concert festivals in 2020, has pivoted to a new concept of live performances, with a “pop-up” filming and performing studio inside its San Jose headquarters that would be both streamed online and projection-mapped onto screens outside…

Miguel Zenón will perform with his quartet at the 2020 San Jose Jazz Winter Fest. Courtesy. More than 20 world-renowned jazz and jazz-adjacent acts will take the stage next month during the annual San Jose Jazz Winter Fest, which will be held in numerous Silicon Valley performance halls and…