For nearly 120 years, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery served as the beacon of Buffalo’s arts appreciation. But in the summer of 2023—after a dramatic $230 million renovation that remade an already beautiful expanse into a new kind of spectacular—it was reborn as Buffalo AKG Art Museum. This glistening campus is now home to more gallery space, more displays, and more opportunities to showcase the power of creation and improvisation in the heart of the Queen City.

One of these opportunities is the annual Art of Jazz series, set to perform inside Buffalo AKG’s Stanford and Judith Lipsey Auditorium, starting on February 2 of 2025. In this episode of Hear Here, we’ll talk about the relationship between Buffalo AKG and the Art of Jazz series with the museum’s manager of marketing and media relations, Andrew Mayer; discuss what the space and series means to musicians with celebrated jazz keyboardist, George Caldwell; and learn about why the series is so special to fans with jazz enthusiasts Jack Nossavage and Krishnan Kartha.

Hear Here is a production of Buffalo Toronto Public Media for Visit Buffalo Niagara