UConn Jazz Combos transformed von der Mehden Recital Hall into a New York-style jazz club and brought listeners back to the “Swingin’ Sixties” Thursday night. Several student-run jazz ensembles ...

Jazz music has soared across the globe, and these cities are the ultimate spots to experience just how diverse this ...

There is a legal adage that hard cases make bad law. Extreme circumstances make it difficult to accommodate less fraught or complex situations. Histories of jazz in the United States can be a bit like ...

The Newport Jazz Festival was in full, glorious stride during the 1960s, featuring top-shelf talent not only from jazz but also the realms of soul, rock and more. That's the backdrop for The Stars ...

Khalil Shaheed, a trumpet player who served as one of the Bay Area's most prominent jazz music educators and performed for several years with the drummer Buddy Miles, died Friday in Oakland. He was 63 ...

Log in to check out a list — a roster that’s far from comprehensive — of 10 Indianapolis jazz icons (featuring eight graduates of Crispus Attucks High School ...

If you asked jazz firebrand Ornette Coleman about his music and philosophy, he probably would have referred you to an obscure music book, “The Harmolodic Theory.” First cited in his own liner notes to ...

It’s Alex Toth, the trumpet-playing founder of Rubblebucket on the phone. He’s just finishing breakfast in Columbus, Missouri, a long way from home in Brooklyn. His band is touring in support of their ...

“Black Radio” is a sonic journey into black American music traditions from the 1970s forward, with shades of jazz delight via fleeting improvisations by leader Robert Glasper on keyboards and Casey ...

These forgotten songs from 1968 may not be super popular today, but they'll start spinning in your brain after hearing them ...

Longtime jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette, who played with greats like Miles Davis and Chick Corea, died on Sunday.

The musical legacy of Wes Montgomery, Freddie Hubbard and J.J. Johnson factored significantly in the founding of Indy Jazz Fest in 1999. Guitarist Montgomery, trumpet player Hubbard and trombone ...