Jazz Jennings, a 20-year-old trans woman, LGBT activist, and social media influencer, has kept a low profile during much of the COVID-19 crisis. Since the sixth season of TLC’s I Am Jazz wrapped in ...

Folks don't often think of North Carolina as a jazz mecca, but a remarkable number of jazz masters hail from the Tar Heel State. John Coltrane was born in Hamlet. Thelonious Monk was born in Rocky ...

Memo to Myron Martin of the Smith Center for the Performing Arts: If you’re looking for a resident orchestra when the center opens in 2012, the Las Vegas Jazz Connection is available. “We think we’re ...

Of all the folk songsters from the 1960s, Mitchell has proven to have the strongest influence on jazz singers. Joni's Jazz features her collaborations with stars like Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock.

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The Hill District in Pittsburgh felt a little bit more like the New Orleans French Quarter on Friday. Dozens of senior citizens gathered along Roberts Street in the Hill District ...

MinnPost’s reporting is free every single day, but it isn’t free to produce. Join 4,800 members with a donation right now. Each year the Schubert Club hosts a Summer Song Festival. One of Minnesota’s ...

Jazz music favors life experience. “The more you live, the better it gets,” says Karrin Allyson by phone from her home in New York, where she’s lived since 2000. “You’re expressing your life ...

The first beverage that comes to mind when thinking about jazz is not coffee, but alcohol. The two have been served in taverns, bars, juke joints, night clubs and dance halls since jazz’s inception in ...

This 2008 Jazz quintet owns a repertoire of compositions: an inventive, melodic jazz that is, above all, eclectic. Charley Rose: sax Baptiste Techer: trombone Willy Muñoz: piano, Eric Oxandaburu: ...

Poetry and jazz make a natural combination, as the history of experimental music has borne out over and over again. In this case, the Po/Jazz Connection features music by the Arpeggio Jazz and Music ...

Where is jazz in the District these days? On a recent sunny Sunday afternoon, a Georgetown street corner was throbbing with it. Travis Gardner, 32, wailed on his trombone while his godbrother, Bill ...