Throughout its history jazz has been in fashion and out of it – but it’s never gone away. Jazz is at its heart Black American ...

He helped turn the Library of Congress into a leading center for research on the history of jazz, and made some surprising ...

A hundred years after The Great Gatsby shone a light on extravagant Long Island mansions and secret speakeasies, the spirit ...

Meanwhile, a host of American jazz greats were serving as cultural ambassadors — Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie among them — ostensibly to promote Yankee goodwill and ...

The legendary jazzman’s compositions are instantly recognizable through decades of samples in hip-hop, R&B, and more.

The music world has lost another legend. Jazz great Roy Ayers, the vibraphonist, composer, and pioneer of jazz-funk, has ...

Having already won eight Grammy Awards — and performed with such illustrious figures as Paul McCartney, McCoy Tyner, James ...

The Saturday jazz tradition resumed the following year ... such a good listener to what the other musicians were playing. He was just really great at supporting players." Ierino "began playing ...

Tigran Hamasyan is no ordinary musician, as anyone who has seen him play can see. The prolific composer and performer lives ...