All the things you'd want to do this Monday through Thursday. On the schedule this week: Shanghai PRIDE is in full swing, Briccocafe turns three, some movies about Burning Man, and Shanghai Tag Heuer Jazz Week! Read on for details, or check out our calendar for more! more ›

Over a hundred acts from a variety of genres will play at the 6th JZ Music Festival Green Note this weekend, including jazz-hands Tower of Power, Roy Ayers, Jojo Mayer, local rastafari Lions of Puxi, Mongolian Steppe-rockers Hanggai, and DJ's Ben Huang, Siesta, and V-Nutz, one of our personal favorites. more ›

Wowee it's looking sparse this week! Shanghai summers straight up kill the music. Anyway, there are at least a few things going on, including Mongolian band Ajinai at Mao, some Chinese Brit pop in the form of Convenience Store, and a metal night at Yuyintang. Read on for highlights, or check out our calendar for everything else! more ›

Don Dworkin is the bassist for Reggie's Red Hot Feetwarmers, that are about to finish their 3-month residency at the House of Blues and Jazz (60 Fuzhou Rd.). The Dixieland band hails originally from Albany, New York. They were joined in Shanghai by Juli Aymi, a clarinet player from Barcelona and Mako Ruan, who danced alongside the band until last week when she went back to Vancouver. They'll be putting out a live album in the future with her on the cover. In the meantime, they play every night from now until Sunday starting at 9:30pm. We sat down to talk to Dworkin about Shanghai, jazz and everything else.

Pictures of the JZ Festival, which ended on Sunday with a rousing set from Branford Marsalis, by Jeremy Breningstall. more ›

This week's a jazz fantasy world, thanks to the JZ Music Festival. But that's not to say there isn't plenty of everybody else. While lots of jazz headliners are going to fill up the schedule this week, there are plenty of bands just ready to blow your mind - that is...if you're ready. more ›

All the things you want to do this Monday to Thursday in Shanghai. On the schedule this week: Candian Thanksgiving, Dave Chappelle, and the World Photography Festival. Read on (or check out our calendar) for more! more ›

As you can tell by the title, the big news this week is international superstars Panic! At the Disco's first ever performance in Shanghai this Saturday. Panic! At the Disco is an American band from Las Vegas famous for their stylish outfits and odd use of exclamation points. Shows in the States have included circus performers and crazy goth outfits - it'll be interesting to see what they bring to Mao Livehouse this Saturday. more ›

Shanghaiist lists all the live music performances you might want to check out from now to Sunday this week. For fun things that aren't live music, take a look at Pencil This In (posted every Monday) and check our calendar. more ›

Rock is the name of the game this weekend, with King Khan & BBQ Show heading to our shores. Known as one of the wildest live acts to not have died from their coke habit yet, King Khan and Mark Sultan (BBQ Show) will be playing at Yuyintang on Friday night. If you're into loud funky garage rock and watching some guy trip on acid (or in case you like their music - featured on SmartShanghai), you know where to be. more ›

Indie is In this week with the TransmitCHINA conference coming to Shanghai. Plenty of FREE rock concerts out there as well with a dash of mellow music for good measure. Warning further reading may produce shockingly good musical results. more ›

The SILF sure knows how to speak to our sordid history lovin' hearts. This time, the juicy tidbits comes from Andrew Field, who gave chatted Saturday morning about his book, "Shanghai’s Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1919-1954." more ›

JQ Whitcomb has been deep in Shanghai's jazz scene since arriving in 2003, performing regularly all over town as well as teaching at the JZ School and directing the music side of things at China's biggest foreign-owned radio broadcaster, Soulfire. Today, he writes about the best jazz acts that hit Shanghai this year. more ›

Coco Zhao is a veteran jazz musician, and a great one at that - he has earned world renown for his smooth blend of Chinese tunes and Western elements, and is a fixture in international jazz festivals. more ›

Shanghaiist lists all the live music performances you might want to check out from now until Sunday this week. For fun things that aren't live music, take a peek at our Pencil This In (out every Monday!) more ›

Dee Dee Bridgewater, the illustrious Jazz singer, has been one of the premier artists in Jazz for the past forty years. From her early days performing with major Jazz legends and winning Tony Awards on Broadway to her more recent work on Billy Holiday, NPR and beyond, Dee Dee has been shaping and defining the way people all over the world understand and appreciate Jazz. To kick off this weekend's JZ Jazz festival, Dee Dee will be gracing Shanghai with a performance this Friday at the Yunfeng theater, sharing the stage with a big band of both local and international musicians. We had the chance to chat about her accomplishments both on and off the stage, her views on Jazz from the past to the present, and her unbeknown love of Chinese art. more ›

2 days…3 stages…37 bands…20 DJs….What better than the hard facts to advertise an event as noteworthy as the upcoming JZ Shanghai Music Festival? From October 16th to the 18th, Pudong Century Park will play host to a constant stream of artists set to fill the city with music. Don’t be fooled by the festival’s name- one might be quick to assume that a jazz festival would be monopolized by the baritone sax and Louis Armstrong tribute performances, but each of the three stages actually specializes in a subset of music. more ›

This week: Chill out with some live jazz, rock out with some funky beats at Shelter, then cheer on Shanghai Shenhua before eating some good ol' American grub at the Bulldog. more ›

Earnshaw Books, your favorite purveyor of China-related reading material, is pleased to announce that it will host an evening of conversation, books and live jazz to celebrate the release this month of two new tomes - Shanghai Story Walks by Yvette Ho Madany and I Sailed with Chinese Pirates by Aleko Lilius, featuring a new foreword by Paul French. more ›

What does Shanghai have in store for you this week? You can chill out at the Shanghaiist Happy Hour on Tuesday, watch Optimus Prime and Megan Fox battle for your attention on Wednesday, prove your smarts at Thursday's quiz night, then end the week listening to Spanish jazz. more ›

Earnshaw Books will host an evening of conversation, books and live jazz featuring Graham Earnshaw to celebrate the release of Tales of Old Peking, authored by Shanghaiist contributor Derek Sandhaus! more ›

Ray Harris "an exceptionally talented keyboard player who pushes Jazz into the electronic slip stream with an experimental fusion of jazz, funk and soul" (Will Page, Straight No Chaser) is performing at Jz Club, Shanghai this Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night. more ›

JZ Club has started hosting concerts at the Shanghai Center Theater (the one in the Portman Ritz-Carlton building) and the next one is tomorrow (Friday, that is). This show is featuring Bob James, the smooth jazz pianist who recently recorded his album "Angels of Shanghai" here in town with a number of local traditional intrumentalists. There's more information about the project on Bob James' website. more ›

At: 4/F, 3 Zhongshan Dong Yi Lu, near Guangdong Lu, 广东路17号, 近中山东一路, 4楼. more ›

These three fantastic jazz vocalists will do a unique performance this Saturday night at a venue we haven't been to yet, called Lounge 18 (18 on the bund, 4F, 18 Zhongshan Dong Lu, near Nanjing Lu). Coco says it's a fantastic space, which means it should be perfect for the magical evening the group has planned for Saturday. Joining the three singers will be Tinho Pereira, the extraordinary Brazilian bass player who joined Coco and Heidi for their recent show at the Oriental Arts Center, as well as Willow Neilson, an Australian saxophonist who is not playing sax at this show but instead playing Mbira, which is the Zimbabwean thumb piano. It's quite a unique set of sounds to mix together, and a fantastic set of musicians, so expect an amazing night. more ›

Friday night was the first of five nights of racy burlesque performances by the Atomic Bombshells at the Glamour Bar. It was the perfect cure for those "boring Olympic opening ceremony blues", at least until China's own Olympic team paraded onto the screen--at which point nothing could draw the crowd's attention away from the big screen. Luckily that won't be an issue for the remaining 4 nights of shows. more ›

Is there anything that won't work in China? This latest video from Arnaud Kamphuis of Daedalum Films explores Shanghai's growing jazz scene and China's exploding demand for jazz. Interesting was the refrain echoed by several of the foreign musicians interviewed that there was no way they could be doing the same thing back home without having to do music that they can't stand. Here, they're in a position to select gigs, travel lots for work, do music on a full-time basis and not have to worry about having another day job — and most importantly, make a comfortable living for themselves. more ›

In March we introduced you to the "mother" of Chinese opera, Kunqu. This weekend Shanghai residents will have a chance to see if this ancient performing art can be transformed into something — how shall we put it — easier on the ears by blending in a touch of Jazz. more ›

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These concerts keep getting better and better. The twocities in tune concerts have traditionally featured Steve Sweeting on piano joined by a vocalist, and the last one we heard with Jasmine Chen on vocals was off the hook. This time, Steve is going all-out and bringing in bass and drums to join him and vocalist Coco Zhao to make the final concert in the spring series a show-stopper. Playing bass will be Scott Dodd and on drums will be Charlie Foldesh. more ›