A little more than five years ago, on Sept. 19, 2007, a crowd of local luminaries, fight fans and boxing celebrities gathered at the Onondaga County Convention Center in Syracuse to celebrate wh

Joe Sample’s two most recent CDs, Live (PRA) with vocalist Randy Crawford, and the reissue Did You Feel That (Warner Jazz), both serve as reminders of the lengthy legacy that the veteran pianis

If there was any takeaway from the fight card at Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Verona Saturday night it must have been that, in boxing, the more things change, the more they stay the same. The Ev

A unique combination of mountains, forests, lakes and rivers, the Adirondack Park is a land of superlatives. At 6 million acres, the park is larger than...

Anyone passing through Old Forge on the third weekend in May could hardly have missed the event. The entire town beach on Old Forge Pond...

Swinging singer Catherine Russell continues to honor her family’s musical legacy

In spite of a short summer season and an often cool, wet climate, the Adirondack Park, a wilderness larger than Vermont, offers myriad recreational and cultural options for its annual influx of 10 m

For veteran saxophonist and composer David Liebman, his upcoming weekend date with the Central New York Jazz Orchestra might seem like just another stop on a very busy schedule, were it not for the special opportunity that awaits him.

Percussionist Benny Jones, the founder and leader of the Treme Brass Band, has been performing in New Orleans for most of his life. His band, a celebrated vestige of authentic Americana, has toured extensively in the United States, Europe and Japan, exposing other cultures to traditional New Orleans band music.

Jorma Kaukonen is not a musician content to sit on his laurels. A founding member of the Jefferson Airplane, the guitarist was part of the San Francisco psychedelic rock movement of the 1960s before forming the acoustic/electric synthesis Hot Tuna with longtime partner, bassist Jack Casady, in 1969.