Hundreds of young musicians flowed into the Mead High School auditorium over the weekend as they competed for best school jazz band honors and picked up tips along the way.

It was only after I left the Bar Bayeux in Brooklyn last Friday night, elated after two riveting sets from the Michael Sarin ...

Spread the loveJazz, with its rich history and diverse styles, has produced countless masterpieces over the decades. This ...

The group’s debut arrives seven years after they teamed up for a John Zorn show. Their inaugural tour launches March 30 ...

Earlier this March, eleven BVHS Concert Band students traveled to Alamosa, Colorado, to attend the Top of the Nation Honor Band at Adam's State University.

There was a telling remark in Wynton Marsalis’s recent interview with Katty Kay for the BBC show “Influential”. Talking about how jazz functions in real time as a democracy, he said: “Our music ...

Nnenna Freelon is one of those jazz singers I can listen to and never tire of feeling the warmth insulated in her every note ...

Thanks to the Luther L. Wright High School Jazz Band, a Theatre North audience on March 14 heard some of jazz icon Duke ...

Originally recorded as a movie soundtrack, the funk band’s sixth album attained a life of its own thanks to its pioneering ...

One can find in Charles Lloyd the intersection of music and spirituality, and Friday night at the Lobero Theater, he issued a heartfelt update from the ...

The composer and saxophonist Yasuaki Shimizu is at home in free jazz, classical and art pop. Finally touring North America, ...

Horton Harris Kellogg Hortie was born on April 28, 1928 in Joliet, IL, and moved with his family to Evanston when he was four. He attended schools in ...