The soul-funk pioneer had one of the greatest hot streaks in music. Then came a spectacular downfall. Our critic picks his five best songs ...

But throughout what could be both a wild and unpredictable offseason ahead for Utah, in the eyes of Bleacher Report's Dan Favale, the Jazz need to have one offseason priority at the top of their mind: ...

Healdsburg Jazz Festival Executive Director Gayle Okumura Sullivan enthusiastically shares what Downbeat magazine said about ...

Country music and jazz music share a lot more common ground than one might think. Here are three jazz standards that became country hits.

The Jazz Central theater serves as their rehearsal headquarters and the venue for the upcoming “CNY Jazz Central Presents: ...

In 1919, a jazz-loving killer known as the "Axeman" terrorized New Orleans — but a century later, one local historian ...

Johnson, a pioneering Black musician born in Philadelphia in 1792, was the first African American composer to publish sheet ...

Finneas started writing the music and brought on composer David Campbell “to notate and write what I had written and then ...

The tribute to Williams represents mission accomplished by local jazz musician and composer ... photo of the artist seated at the piano; sheet music for “Mary Lou Williams Blues”; a Decca ...

Irma Thomas performs on the Shell Gentilly Stage during the third day of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival ... themselves to mastering rocksteady music, a sort of 1960s Jamaican music ...

While jazz remains a focal point of the establishment’s live music, with international artists like Chick Corea, Jojo Mayer, and Ivan Santos having played here, the club also hosts musicians ...

“In the Soviet Union, jazz was seen as a symbol of Western ... Instead of bringing sheet music or demos, they decided to interact with soldiers and the community and make music inspired by ...