Vinnie D’Agostino is that this month’s featured performer on the Excessive Museum of Artwork’s Friday Jazz occasion. (Picture courtesy of Vinnie D’Agostino)
Every week, ArtsATL delivers a critic’s quick listing of the exhibits, exhibitions, live shows and occasions we suggest for the approaching weeks inside one self-discipline or venue kind within the kaleidoscope of Atlanta arts and tradition. Each week, we’ll current a unique artwork kind.
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Along with the exhibits listed under, Atlanta boasts a number of venues the place you possibly can hear jazz and blues commonly, a lot of them internet hosting weekly jam classes. Amongst these venues are Fats Matt’s Rib Shack, the Velvet Word, Blind Willie’s, St. James Stay and Northside Tavern. At Napoleon’s in Decatur, Blue Velvet Atlanta leads an open jam each second and fourth Thursday from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Learn our current profile of Blue Velvet Atlanta.
July 10
Jazz pianist and Atlanta native Joe Alterman can also be the chief director of Neranenah, the Atlanta-based live performance collection that celebrates Jewish contributions to music and the humanities. He’ll carry out at Eddie’s Attic at 7 p.m. on July 10. Learn extra about Alterman in our collaborative collection, On a regular basis Heroes, and about his reminiscences of his pal and mentor Les McCann.
July 11
Grammy-winning jazz musician Diana Krall has had eight albums debut on the high of the Billboard Jazz Albums chart, and her 1999 launch of Once I Look in Your Eyes spent an unprecedented 52 weeks within the No. 1 place on Billboard’s Jazz chart. She’ll return to Atlanta for a present at Atlanta Symphony Corridor at 8 p.m. on July 11.
July 12, August 2 and September 6
The Mable Home Barnes Amphitheatre brings a wealth of R&B and jazz fusion to Mableton within the coming months. On July 12, they’ll characteristic Will Downing, Najee and Ken Ford. Subsequent up, Jonathan Butler, Richard Elliot and Rick Braun take the stage on August 2; and Marcus Miller, Avery Sunshine and Vincent Ingala will carry out on September 6. All exhibits start at 7 p.m.
July 18
Atlanta trumpeter and vocalist Joe Gransden brings his 16-piece Massive Band to Eddie’s Attic at 7 p.m. on July 18. Gransden additionally leads a weekly jazz jam each Monday at Napoleon’s in Decatur.
Get pleasure from a cultural double characteristic at the Excessive Museum of Artwork’s Friday Jazz collection, the place you’ll expertise reside music and discover the museum’s galleries. On July 18, Friday Jazz options multi-instrumentalist Vinnie D’Agostino, an Atlanta-based musician proficient in saxes, clarinets and flutes. He’ll play all through the night on April 18. Arising subsequent is KIN on August 15.
July 20
The Atlanta Blues Society’s subsequent Gathering & Jam occurs from 3 p.m. to six p.m. Sunday, July 20, on the Inexperienced Room in Mableton (1391 Veterans Memorial Freeway). The host band shall be Time Crunch, the 2024 Youth Band winners of the Atlanta Blues Problem.
July 29
In between European excursions, worldwide jazz vocalist and educator Lori Williams will carry out at Metropolis Vineyard Atlanta at 8 p.m. on July 29. When she isn’t bringing jazz to the world (with dates scheduled in Austria, Italy, Slovenia and Croatia, amongst others), you’ll discover her internet hosting the Sunday Jazz Lounge at St. James Stay.
August 6
The Jazz Legacy Challenge will current a Tribute to Cannonball Adderley at Eddie Owen Presents on the Pink Clay Music Foundry in downtown Duluth. The present begins at 7 p.m. on August 6. On future dates, they’ll pay tribute to Billy Strayhorn (September 3).
August 10
Head to MadLife Stage & Studios in Woodstock (8722 Principal St.) for The Atlanta Blues Society’s 2025 Blues Problem from 1 p.m. to eight p.m. on August 10. There shall be as much as 12 acts competing, and the winners will signify Atlanta within the Worldwide Blues Problem in Memphis in January 2026.
August 14
Jimmie Vaughan, founding father of the Fabulous Thunderbirds and brother of Stevie Ray Vaughan, has been melding blues and rock for nearly 60 years. He’ll be bringing his Tilt-A-Whirl Band to Metropolis Vineyard for an 8 p.m. present on August 14.
August 16 and 17
The Stockbridge Jazz Competition is going on on the VyStar Amphitheater on the Bridge (4650 N. Henry Blvd., Stockbridge) starting at 8 p.m. on August 16 and August 17. Tommy Davidson hosts a lineup that features David Benoit, Norman Brown, Jennifer Holliday and Chandra Currelley.
September 22
Grammy-nominated saxophonist and vocalist Mindi Abair has recorded with a number of the greatest names in music, together with Gregg Allman, Booker T. Jones, Keb’ Mo’, Dave Koz and Max Weinberg. She’ll be acting at Metropolis Vineyard Atlanta at 8 p.m. on September 22.