Zankel Music Center

The Skidmore Jazz Institute traditionally closes its concert season with a second concert performed by the faculty, featuring some members who were not part of…

The Skidmore Jazz Institute's exploration of the musical genre known as jazz continues with a concert featuring seven members of the faculty, all maestros in…

“Genius!” It’s an overused term, even by music-critic standards. It used to be applied to works of recognizable brilliance, like Kind of Blue or A Love…

SARATOGA SPRINGS - Many feel that jazz’s Golden Age was in the past. Bebop and post-bop of the late 40s through the early 60s, when the music reigned supreme…

SARATOGA SPRINGS - The Skidmore College Music Department is pleased to announce SKIDMANIA '72, playing at the Arthur Zankel Music Center on the Skidmore…

After a two-year absence due to COVID, the much-loved jazz concerts sponsored by the Skidmore Jazz Institute have returned to Zankel Hall. There were no…

The Grammy award-winning Parker Quartet is known for luminous sound and exceptional musicianship. They will perform Shostakovich Quartet No. 9 in E-flat…

“They said I could bring any band I wanted,” drummer Sylvia Cuenca told us, grinning happily as she looked at her band mates – guitarist Paul Bollenback,…

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…

Photographs by Andrzej PilarczykJazz-pop guitarist-vocalist John Pizzarelli and his band - drummer Kevin Kanner, bassist Martin Pizzarelli and pianist…

Review and photographs by J HunterI shouldn’t have been surprised at the half-house that greeted uber-drummer Eric Harland as he led his band Voyager…

Photographs by Andrzej PilarczykBack in 1996, singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik released his self-titled debut album. The album went gold and spawned the…