It’s the season for icons: Motown legend Diana Ross and a much slimmer Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin bring their talents to the Fox (foxtheatre.org) on March 1 and March 5 respectively…
The Freddy Cole Quartet and the Marcus Roberts Trio honor the music of Freddy Cole’s brother, Nat “King” Cole, and the equally genius Cole Porter; and Georgia native and master trombonist Wycliffe Gordon and friends pay homage to the incomparable Louis Armstrong at the Savannah Music Festival (savannahmusicfestival.org ) March 22 to April 7…
Should waiting until Cirque du Soleil’s Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour (cirquedusoleil.com/michaeljackson) at Philips Arena on June 29 and June 30 prove too hard, know that from March 2 until March 14, there are shows not too far away in Florida (Miami and Jacksonville) and North Carolina (Charlotte and Raleigh).
Above: Nat ‘King’ Cole records at Capitol Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California. (1963)