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A new recording features pianist McCoy Tyner and saxophonist Joe Henderson in a concert taped in New York City in 1966. The music here is a prelude to later iconic records by each leader.

What led to the teaming of Beyoncé and jazz trumpet great Terence Blanchard for an operatically inspired Pepsi TV commercial in 2002? That was just two months before the release of her first solo ...

Mayo instrumentalist and composer Alannah Thornburgh has released her new single, Away With the Fairies, from her debut solo album Shapeshifter, which is out on 12 February. We asked her the BIG ...

Brian and Pamela Hughes’s place in Eaton Canyon was their refuge for more than 20 years. After the Eaton fire ripped through ...

A selection of the best recorded examples of the otherwise mostly undocumented music heard in jazz clubs like Slugs’.

Julia Keefe is a jazz singer, composer, arranger and big band leader currently ... because it is a huge part of who I am. I ...

Jazz in the Desert is back for 2025 and will feature middle and high school jazz bands from up and down the I-19 corridor.

From stars who got a little help from a Seattle singer to critically acclaimed indie rockers, here are a few highlights from ...

Saxophonist/Composer Javon Jackson And Poet Nikki Giovanni Nominated For NAACP Image Award In 'Outstanding Jazz Album' ...

But the headline act was not the ship, it was the Mississippi itself. Dubbed “the great artery of America” by Civil War ...

The MacArthur Award-winning composer and pianist Vijay Iyer has never found a boundary that he hasn’t instinctively attempted to cross. He is possibly the only jazz pioneer ever to receive a master’s ...