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 ...

and served as the organist at the Eastern Star Baptist Church in Memphis for six years early in his career. He attended Memphis State University, where he began playing jazz. In 1973 he became a ...

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

At 84, the drummer whose discography includes credits on more than 600 albums is releasing another by his long-running ...

Its early coverage of jazz reflected both tendencies, signaling an openness to the emerging form even as it offered a rather patronizing take on the music’s significance. “There are times ...

Jazz and blues are types of music that can trace their roots back to the early 20th Century, in the southern United States. Jazz was very popular as it was a fresh, new sound. Different styles of ...