Jazz House Kids' Summer Workshop

On Saturday, Aug. 10, Montclair Jazz Festival celebrates 10 years. It's come a long way since the 2010 festival, which took place on a grassy stage.

Montclair won eight awards in the annual People's Choice Awards sponsored by JerseyArts.com and ArtPride, out of 115 nominees.

By Gwen Orel orel@montclairlocal.news The tune of “Zamru l’Adonai” has been in my head all week. That’s because I recently played violin with the band that plays music sometimes for Friday night services at my synagogue (before sundown, when we all have to hustle to put the instruments and amps away and carry them out of the building before the “no carrying” rule on shabbos applies). The melody by

By GWEN OREL orel@montclairlocal.news Dee Dee Bridgewater and Memphis Soulphony will tear off the roof at the Montclair Jazz Festival on Saturday, Aug. 12, Melissa Walker says. Only there is no roof. The free festival takes place outdoors, in Nishuane Park, from noon to 9 p...

By GWEN OREL orel@montclairlocal.news The hall is filled with middle schoolers and high schoolers. And none of them are playing with their phones. At Leshowitz Hall in the Cali School of Music at MSU, the kids lean forward, snap, or nod their heads as Ted Chubb blows out a trumpet solo...