11/24/21
This year’s Summit theme, Awakening, was tailor-made for the moment
Don’t miss out on the fantastic advice and beautiful reflections of your community
8/12/21
Norman Connors
Today, the 70-something-year-old marvels at the path his life took from living in tenement housing doors away from famed comic Bill Cosby to headlining across the globe alongside jazz, R&B, and soul music legends.
5/20/21
Tony Miceli
Tony Miceli is one of those characters who, if they didn’t exist, he would have had to create: a musician as deeply into big rock as he is intimate jazz, a man who built a funky foundation upon the least likely of soulful instruments—vibraphone and marimba, and a serious leader and sideman with a rich sense of humor whose finicky focus has jumped from Monk and Mingus to Mozart and Bach in the past, leaving room for so much more in the future.
5/6/21
Suzanne Cloud
4/8/21
Yesseh Furaha-Ali
4/2/21
Uri Caine
4/1/21
Ernest Stuart
3/31/21
Monnette Sudler
In 1992, Jack Lloyd, entertainment writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, wrote, “A funny thing happened to Monnette Sudler on her way to becoming a folk singer.” That “funny thing” was her immediate induction in the early 1970s into the cutting-edge, free-jazz funky group “Sounds of Liberation” with fellow Germantownians vibist Khan Jamal and saxophonist Byard Lancaster...
3/24/21
Alonzo Demetrius
3/18/21
Kendrah Butler-Waters
Kendrah Butler-Waters' affinity for Philadelphia's historic musical roots has served as the muse for her creative output as a skilled and imaginative pianist, composer, violinist, and vocalist.
3/3/21
Nick Lombardelli
2/25/21
Jimmy Bruno
2/18/21
Diane Monroe
Diane Monroe is a rare gem of a musician whose original compositions and arrangements have garnered accolades from both the classical and jazz worlds, and she continues to bridge the divide.
2/3/21
Justin Faulkner
1/27/21
Sumi Tonooka
Awarded a New Jazz Works grant from Chamber Music America in 2019, pianist/composer Sumi Tonooka found herself inspired by the root systems of trees.
1/20/21