Sharon stressed that Mr. Bowks, who also directed the Rochester Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra and the Gateswingers Big Band and played in several groups as well, was just a terrific guy with the ...

This Friday August 5, the Rochester Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra will play in Gazebo Park from 7-9 pm. This 22-piece big band is a Webster favorite and one of the few bands invited back every year.

More specifically, "the compositions are influenced by the personas, powers and stories, and what I think would best represent them in the jazz orchestra format," said the 2010 Rochester High grad ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Rochester International Jazz Festival has announced its first headliner for 2025. Grammy-winning trumpeter Wynton Marsalis will take the stage with the Jazz at Lincoln ...

The New Energy Jazz Orchestra, led by Rochester Institute of Technology music faculty Carl Atkins and Jon Kruger, will present a concert of original compositions and classical jazz repertory at 6 p.m.