T he inaugural 1959 Playboy Jazz Festival in Chicago was headlined by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, and the ...

Roy Haynes, one of the most towering figures in the history of jazz, has died at 99 years old. A jazz drummer who helped to ...

The Louisiana Music & Heritage Experience (LMHE), is a comprehensive, immersive music museum designed to preserve and ...

Tye is the first to admit that he's no music expert. But he is a very good reporter ... This was when he began to see the ...

music theory, jazz history, and jazz improvisation. Over the years, program instructors included Dr. Frank Adams and Dr.

When young Donaldson was about nine years old, his mother noticed his innate music ability and got him a clarinet from the ...

The Jackson Street Jazz Trail launched on October 19 during the Earshot Jazz Festival, providing a self-guided tour of ...

"He opened so many doors and provided such a road map for so many people," says Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr.

Quite simply, Jazzmeia Horn is jazz’s most virtuosic singer ... It is interesting what has been selectively mined from history to tell the story this play wants to tell. The original circle ...

Quincy Jones, the musician-producer whose work was on several of the biggest pop LPs of the century, has died at 91.

Laura Mvula and Corinne Bailey Rae are among the artists taking part in a joint partnership between London’s Southbank Centre ...

For Jones, Hargrove’s band was a North Star he eagerly set his sights on when he embarked on his professional journey in 1997 ...