Triple threat talent Katie Thiroux is bringing in even more talent to accompany her on the piano at her JAS Cafe shows Friday, February 2nd and Saturday, February 3rd. Justin Kauflin is a 31 year old piano prodigy and one half of the unlikely duo featured in the acclaimed documentary: Keep On Keepin' On.    The

  I'd heard Bria's name last year for the first time, as she was pitched to me for the JAS Cafe by the same agent who first told me about Cyrille Aimee, the French jazz singer who had a great debut here in January 2012. With our "Jazz Spoken Globally" themed series at the JAS

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

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

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

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

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

GET TO KNOW HALIE LOREN - PERFORMING AT THE JAS CAFE MARCH 3-4 JAS had a chance to connect with Halie Loren last week to learn a little bit more about this amazing vocalist headed to the JAS Cafe this weekend. Get to know Halie and be sure to check her out the Cooking School

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