Jazz's popularity grows, and as it attracts a wider audience, so do campaigns to censor this "devil's music." Early detractors like Thomas Edison, inventor of the phonograph, ridicule jazz ...

Michael Brecker was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and exposed to jazz at an early age by his father, an amateur jazz pianist. Among the generation of jazz musicians that saw rock music not as the ...

Roberta Flack, the iconic singer whose soulful voice and timeless hits captivated audiences worldwide, passed away on ...

Early on, Morris' “Water Fountain Of Youth" and “The Imitation Game" are up-tempo ... The story is old, predictable and often exasperating. A virtually unknown jazz musician distinguishes himself or ...

Explore the Windy City through tracks by Ramsey Lewis, Ahmad Jamal, Lester Bowie and the contemporary artists at the ...

Roy Ayers, the jazz-funk vibraphonist known for Everybody Loves The Sunshine and sampled ’round the music world, has died. He ...

IN FACT, IN 1985, CONGRESS MADE IT THAT SUCH BY PASSING A RESOLUTION STATED THAT FACT SINCE THE EARLY 1900S, JAZZ HAS CAUGHT THE EAR OF MILLIONS ACROSS THE WORLD. THE FACT IS, IS IMPROVISED. IT’S ...

In early 2018, a quartet of well-known area jazz musicians came together, as jazz musicians do, and formed an ensemble they called Pulse to explore, they say, “melodic shape, harmonic subtlety, ...