Rudy Lu

2022 has been a year of transition. Many openings, closings, creative endeavors, and continuances of events in the performing arts as we gradually emerge from…

As 2019 draws to a close, it is time to take a look back at live music in 2019. It has been quite a year for anniversary shows and reunions. 1969 was the year…

Jazz-rock fusion still lives. The husband-wife team of Omar Hakim and Rachel Z has a new project. The band Ozmosys is a quartet consisting of Omar Hakim…

Review and photographs by Rudy LuJam sessions...Often these are behind-closed-door sessions that are played strictly for fun - or the musicians' own…

Review and photographs by Rudy LuLast weekend, Joey Alexander - the Indonesian-born 12-year-old Grammy-nominated jazz pianist - made his third…

Review and photographs by Rudy LuThe Piano Jazz Queen of Greater Nippertown, Lee Shaw was a mentor and inspiration to so many jazz musicians throughout…

Review by Jeff Nania Photographs by Rudy LuA Place For Jazz finished the 2015 season with saxophonist Chris Potter’s new trio featuring drummer Adam…

Review by Don Wilcock Photographs by Rudy LuOK, I admit it. My expectations for the Mavis Staples/Joan Osborne concert at Proctors last weekend were…

Review by J Hunter Photographs by Rudy LuThe stage set at the Zankel Music Center for tenor master Joshua Redman and jazz provocateurs The Bad Plus…

Review by J Hunter Photographs by Rudy LuIt’s a legitimate event when the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra plays your city. In many ways, it recalls…

Review and photographs by Rudy LuThe Basement Tapes are a series of recordings made in 1967 after Bob Dylan had gone on tour with what was to become the…

Review and photographs by Rudy LuThe party atmosphere of summer track season in Saratoga was carried into the Universal Preservation Hall by Giacomo…