I went to see the jazz pianist Jason Moran perform at the Village Vanguard in New York City. Playing the music of Duke ...

Here are the biggest music festivals and concerts for Jazz Appreciation Month, including Lakecia Benjamin, Hiromi, Francine Reed and Stella Cole.

Bill Frisell 2. Rico Jones 3. Erica Brown and the Delta Sonics 4. Colorado Mambo Orchestra 5. Dianne Reeves—plus, a timeline ...

Jazz fans in the Capital Region have been exposed for 40 years to a treat not found in many places: a weekly program of music ...

The Atlanta Jazz Festival will showcase renowned international and local artists this Memorial Day weekend at Piedmont Park.

Even though it’s been more than a century since some of these novels roared onto the literary scene, they all remain classics ...

But when the Mardi Gras floats return to their garages at the end of the celebrations, the festival scene in New Orleans and ...

Carlos Santana, the multi-Grammy Award winning guitarist and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, is coming to Albuquerque’s Isleta ...

NOCCA Jazz Ensemble, Trombone Shorty Music Academy, Black Magic Drumline, Native Nations Intertribal, Treces del Sur – New Orleans Latin Music Band, Beautiful Creole Apaches, Black Seminoles ...

His work in the 1970s as bandleader of the six-piece band Roy Ayers Ubiquity helped spawn the subgenre called acid jazz. “If I didn’t have music, I wouldn’t even want to be here,” Ayers ...

Roy Ayers, who has died aged 84, was a pioneer of jazz-funk in the 1970s, the uplifting groove and messages of his music exemplified by his best-known track, Everybody Loves the Sunshine; although ...

As he studied music theory at Los Angeles City College, he played jazz in nightclubs. The first time Ayers appeared on record was on a session by saxophonist Curtis Amy. By 1963, he had his own ...