Get to Know Roger Kellaway, Teka & Tom Scott

On Friday, March 2nd and Saturday, March 3rd, 2018 The Roger Kellawy Trio with Special Guests Brazilian Vocalist/ guitarist Téka and saxaphonist Tom Scott with Jay Leonhart on bass and Roni Ben-Hur on guitar will take the JAS Cafe Stage Downstairs at The Little Nell. But who are all these amazing musicians? Roger Kellaway:  Grammy award winner

2025-11-03T13:12:10-07:00July 30th, 2020|JAS Café|

JAS President & CEO on Jazz Bassist Christian McBride

Christian McBride has deep JAS history. He is a member of our musical family going back nearly 20 years. He played many memorable shows and he was the Artistic Director of the JAS Academy Summer Sessions from 1999 – 2008. One of his most memorable shows, highlighted in our new “25 Years of Jazz Aspen Snowmass” coffee table book

2025-11-03T13:12:41-07:00July 30th, 2020|JAS Café|

Listen Up! History of New Orleans Piano

If you purchased tickets to the 7pm JAS Cafe performance on Friday, July 14 featuring Butler Bernstein & the Hot 9, we encourage you to join us at 5:30pm for a pre-concert Listen Up! talk (included in all 7pm tickets). JAS Founder/President Jim Horowitz will be joined by trumpeter Steve Bernstein in an interview that will get inside

2025-11-03T13:12:53-07:00July 29th, 2020|JAS Café|

The Django Influence

When the John Jorgenson Quintet takes the JAS Cafe stage on February 9-10 Cafe regulars will notice a familiar sound and style coming from Jorgenson's guitar. John is the latest Cafe artist to bring the Django style of playing to the Cafe. All About Jazz describes the Quintet's performance as "a mix of soulful romance and rollicking

2025-11-03T13:14:21-07:00July 29th, 2020|JAS Café|

Three Generations of Cuban Pianists

Pianist Chuchito Valdes is heir to a great Cuban jazz tradition which started with his grandfather, Ramon Emilio “Bebo” Valdes, and continued with his father, Dionisio Jesus “Chucho” Valdes. Both musicians have been revered throughout the jazz world for decades: Bebo for creating the batanga rhythm and for serving as the director of Havana’s Tropicana club, and Chucho for

2025-11-03T13:14:54-07:00July 29th, 2020|JAS Café|

Ella & Louis: U.S. “Jazz Ambassadors Program”

In 1968, the U.S. State Department created the Jazz Ambassadors program, hiring leading American Jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, and Duke Ellington to represent the U.S. overseas, particularly to improve the public image of the U.S. in light of criticism from the Soviet Union around racial inequality and racial tension. The

2025-11-03T13:18:27-07:00July 29th, 2020|JAS Café|

Celebrating Women in Jazz: Pioneers and Contemporary Artists

Grace Kelly is taking the jazz world by storm with her "electric charisma on-stage that instantly ignites the room," says band leader Jon Batiste. As we get set to welcome Kelly to the JAS Cafe stage for her first ever Aspen appearance, we wanted to take a look back at the influence other women like Kelly have

2025-11-03T13:18:52-07:00July 29th, 2020|JAS Café|
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