There’s a new bar boasting a nice selection of jazzy live music.  It’s not a dedicated jazz venue but there’s a lot of jazzy tunes being thrown down here.  Have a look at their site to see the current schedule.  It’s a great mix of live music from quality local artists. Well, we’re not actually [...]

The following is a letter sent in by a reader. Please leave a comment if you have information for my friend and I’ll be sure to get you in touch. Hi there, I am new in Chiang Mai. I am a music teacher at the german school and a studied guitar player. I would love [...]

This video was made by the good people over at Open Chiang Mai and it features some very talented farangs (foreigners) from the Chiang Mai jazz scene.  They love what they do and it shoes in their music.  This isn’t your average video session.  There’s some Q&A with the featured musicians which bring a little [...]

This is more of a placeholder of things to come here at Jazz in Chiang Mai.  I’ll be back in Chiang Mai tomorrow and will be systematically (ok, more like randomly, sporadically and conveniently) seeking out each and every jazz club, spot, event or hole in the wall to experience.   I will give an unbiased, [...]

If you look a good impromptu jazz jam session with all the bells and whistles, you’re in for a treat.  Check out the saxophone player going nuts, absolutely rockin’!  The background saxophone player, Por, is known as a killer horn player and does well to fuse the flow from everyone involved.  If this isn’t true [...]

Some sweet amateur shot footage of a jazz jam session in Chiang Mai.

Thailand’s H.M. King Bhumibol can be credited with bringing jazz music to the minds and hearts of the Thai people many years ago.  While I am not an expert on jazz history especially as it relates to Thailand I provide you with a passage from a Wikipedia article on His Majesty’s jazz accomplishments followed by [...]

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I envision this site becoming an entire virtual jazz community catering specifically to the jazz enthusiasts of northern Thailand’s Chiang Mai.  We’ll start things off slowly with some candid jazz club reviews then on to musicians and club owners of note then the sky’s the limit.  Perhaps we’ll throw in a forum where we can [...]