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 ...

There is a new category for the 58th annual Grammy awards, #31: Best improvised jazz solo. Nominees include the boy wunderkind Joey Alexander on “Giant Steps”, “Cherokee” from bassist Christian ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hear tracks by Perfume Genius, Lucy Dacus, Bartees Strange and others. By Jon Pareles Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new tracks. Listen to the ...

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 ...

Welcome to the Thompson Jazz Studies Program at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music! CU Boulder jazz ensembles offer students exposure to a variety of jazz styles through the rehearsal ...

Music Soup is a mainstay on the Greek jazz scene where they perform in all types of venues, from festivals and concert halls to jazz clubs, bars, and cafes. Evgenia and Nestor first met in 1998 when ...

Live jazz music is set to return to Old Sacramento on Saturday as A-List Party Experience, a regional entertainment group, debuts its inaugural Capital City Jazz Festival at the Old Sacramento State ...