On May 11, the Count Basie Center for the Arts will present “Shore To Rock Hunger,” a benefit for the Fulfill Food Bank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties.

Kenny Vance of Jay & The Americans will be honored with the “Spirit Of New Jersey” Award at the Garden State Film Festival on March 25 in Asbury Park.

“Live Jazz Every Night” proclaims its website. Open 5:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m., Brvsh Cul7ur3 (pronounced Brush Culture), 482 Cedar Lane in Teaneck, will offer dinner, drinks and more affordable prices than Manhattan clubs.

Free shows are rare. But the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel will be presenting British Invasion act Herman’s Hermits and Tommy Roe on June 8. The Soundtrack of Our Lives with Deborah Rennard and Al Sapienza will open. Legendary disc jockey Cousin Brucie will host.

Halsey, Demi Lovato, Santana, Alanis Morisette, Stephen Colbert, Jim Gaffigan, Bill Burr, Marisa Monte, Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, Brian Fallon, The Smithereens, The B-52s, Natalie Merchant and Jay Wheeler are among the attractions.

The history of music in New Jersey traverses an unusually long and circuitous path. And it starts with the Lenni-Lanape tribe, known as the “ancient ones” as their lineage dates back almost 10,000 years.

The day after the first leg of the Bruce Springsteen tour ends in Newark April 14 at the Prudential Center, Stevie Van Zandt, Darlene Love, Steve Earle and Sam Moore will be honored by the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music at Monmouth University.

Ricky Byrd’s latest single—“Glamdemic Blues” with the hippest cover of a Four Tops song you’ll ever hear (“Reach Out”) on the flip side—spent a week as the “Coolest Song In The World” on Little Steven’s Underground Garage (Sirius XM).

For his 29th album, recorded in Middletown, Little Falls and Paramus, vibraphonist/keyboardist/arranger/composer/producer Joe Locke, 63, leads his quartet—with pianist Jim Ridl, bassist Lorin Cohen and drummer Samvel Sarkisyan—through some acrobatic arrangements, challenging in their complexity.

He charged out of Newark to change the face of modern jazz. Tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter, over the course of seven decades, was one of the most influential musicians in history. He died March 2 in Los Angeles.

Van Gelder Studios in Englewood Cliffs continues to be the place where great jazz is born…and Time Bandits, by trumpeter/composer John Bailey, is no exception. In this one legendary studio, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Freddie Hubbard, Thelonious Monk, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Memphis Slim and hundreds of other greats made their best recordings.

New Orleans is a state-of-mind. Every year around this time of year, Mardi Gras is an explosion of joyousness. You don’t have to travel down to Louisiana to feel it. Its spirit resides in Mercer County, in a little town called Ewing, where Joe Grillo leads The Gumbo Gumbas on a Cajun holiday all year round.

Our Jersey Festival Line-up: Bamboozle, Adjacent Music Festival, Atlantic City Beer and Music Festival, Barefoot Country Music Festival, Tidalwave Music Festival, Sea. Hear. Now.

“Bruce? That’s a tough one, because I like the guy. But the music…I don’t know. I’m the toughest taskmaster of all time. I’m going to annoy a lot of people. Bruce? To me, it’s pretentious.”

It’s going to be a long loud summer in Holmdel. The PNC Bank Arts Center (a great place to see a show), has announced its 2023 summer schedule.

Stevie Van Zandt has signed a multi-million dollar deal with Primary Wave Music. PWM will now manage his publishing/recording catalog as well as owning the rights to his “name and likeness.”

Eighteen North American cities will host the 22 added shows to the current tour of Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band.

Al Di Meola, the legendary jazz-rock fusion guitarist with Return To Forever, will be part of Director Fulvio Cecere's "The Jersey Sound" documentary.

On Time Capsule, Bill Warfield’s fourth CD with the Hell’s Kitchen Funk Orchestra, he unloads 12 tracks with, as he says, a “fervent emphasis on the power of the horns. My interests are so varied,” he continues, “I love classical. I love commercial. With this band and these horns, I can do anything!” And that’s exactly what he does.

Guitarist Stevie Van Zandt and violinist Soozie Tyrell of the E Street Band tested positive for COVID prior to the February 10 American Airlines Center show in Dallas.