Last Saturday, Grammy Award-winning keyboardist Gregg Karukas stepped out of his smooth jazz comfort zone for an evening of heart-pumping jazz-funk fusion with a splash of playful Bossa nova at ...

Gregg Karukas was sitting in his car, waiting to meet someone, watching the afternoon Grammy awards ceremony stream on his iPhone for about 10 minutes, when he found out he won. Karukas, a Maryland ...

Laguna Beach’s Festival of Arts presented a concert Saturday afternoon featuring musicians Gregg Karukas and Michael Paulo in the first of four Jazz on the Green shows set during the festival. All ...

It's not smooth jazz musicians that deserve the disrespect they often receive from fans and critics. Smooth jazz is not the enemy. It's smooth jazz radio programmers who clown their own formats by ...

To follow the trajectory of Gregg Karukas’ career as a jazz pianist is to track the rise of the smooth jazz genre itself. Karukas found himself in Los Angeles during the 1980s, the time when smooth ...

Gregg Karukas, one of the most superb keyboardists in Smooth Jazz, will be playing live at The Redstone Room in Davenport, Iowa on February 9th, 2007. 'People say my music sounds romantic and ...

It's not smooth jazz musicians that deserve the disrespect they often receive from fans and critics. Smooth jazz is not the enemy. It's smooth jazz radio programmers who clown their own formats by ...

A column in a recent Pulse edition touching on the state of jazz in Hampton Roads brought some great responses from readers about upcoming events. One of them is the Church Street Jazz Series, which ...