Last week, the Montreux Jazz Festival Miami celebrated the Miles Davis Centennial, a milestone tribute honoring one of the most dynamic figures in music history. In commemoration of what would ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Thurston Moore is obsessed with jazz. Not the mellow, easy-listening variety that serves as background music in ...

The Bloomington community filled IU Cinema’s auditorium Saturday night for a screening of “ The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit ,” followed by a post-show Q&A with producer and writer Mark Stryker ...

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Alexander is an acclaimed poet, scholar, and cultural advocate. She is the president of the Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest funder of the arts and humanities, which recently launched a $35 ...

DANBURY -- Think of some of the greatest jazz musicians of the past half century -- Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan, ...

It was nice to finally, after all these years, have the opportunity to sit down with the celebrated jazz pianist Jan Lundgren and talk about what it actually is that we do as jazz musicians when we ...

Charles McPherson is an American alto saxophonist and composer with a career spanning eight decades. He has worked closely with a host of artists, among whom are some considered to be originators and ...

The instrument hasn’t always been a central player in jazz, but the best guitarists have taken up the challenge of finding their own way. Fourteen musicians and writers share their favorites. Credit..

The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit explores the landmark influence of Detroit’s innovative jazz musicians. Framed by Detroit’s dramatic rise and fall as an industrial power and its dynamic Black ...