Each Wednesday, WTTW News producer Josh Terry presents must-see live music shows from indie rock to jazz, country, hip-hop ...

Revelers two-step at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Zack Smith Can you dance to jazz? The crowds at this year’s New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival thought so, twirling in the aisles of ...

When the Harlem Renaissance was in full swing, so was swing dance. A century later, “Swing!” celebrates the music and the moves of this era of jazz. The musical, featuring well-known songs by artists ...

In a recent study at Johns Hopkins, jazz musicians improvised with each other while sitting in MRI machines. No doubt many of them were used to playing in tight spaces, but this was, all the same, odd ...

Join host and choreographer Frank Soares for a 20-minute jazz dance workout, joined by Lilian Gonzalez and Suzie Elias. Get ready to channel your inner Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, or Avril Lavigne with ...

The American musical art form jazz emerges in New Orleans around the advent of the 20th century. Jazz blends elements from varied traditions, including African and African American, religious, brass ...

In the mid-1960s, as Miles Davis’s band rose to its place in the pantheon of jazz greats, the trumpeter boasted that he paid his musicians not to practice. The statement was typically provocative, but ...