Sun coverage: Paetec Jazz Festival

Paetec festival returns with a broader focus

Baltimore will host a Paetec music festival again this summer, but jazz is noticeably absent from the name.

Music Review

Legends' tunes: some old, new, borrowed and blues

Closing out the Paetec Jazz Festival, headliners Al Green, Little Richard and B.B. King delivered casual performances Saturday night that sought to establish intimacy with the audience at the Pier Six Concert Pavilion rather than showcase the skills that made them legends.

Jazz festival already singing reprise

Even before the inaugural Paetec Jazz Festival ended yesterday, organizers said they planned to bring it back for a second year.

Music Review

Jazz shows up a little late, but mostly great

The second day of Baltimore's first Paetec Jazz Festival offered exuberant, danceable music loosely based on jazz -- highlighted by a nearly sold-out Earth, Wind & Fire set at Pier Six Concert Pavilion.

Music Review

Jazz festival sounds its opening notes

Outside on the plaza at Power Plant Live on Thursday night, the Paetec Jazz Festival got off to a blah start. Kicking off the inaugural night of free concerts at the Market Street complex, the Repeatos, an eccentric sextet of long-haired, middle-age musicians from Europe, Canada and upstate New York, earnestly performed a curious musical mix of ambient acoustic folk sounds, blues and rambling poetry.

Sounds of music in city

Rain was a mixed blessing last night at the opening of the city's Paetec Jazz Festival, as it sent crowds scattering from one outdoor venue but added moody atmospherics to performances at the Pier Six Pavilion.

Butler's return to gospel

Jonathan Butler doesn't think of it as new musical direction.

All what jazz? Not at this fest

The Paetec Jazz Festival, coming to Baltimore this week, has its bases covered.

Paetec Jazz Festival schedule

Check out the line-up for this year's festival.