From the blissfully ignorant months before the pandemic to Brat Summer, here are the greatest songs that moved culture, ...

Written and sung by bassist Peter Cetera, "If You Leave Me Now" was Chicago's very first No. 1 hit, topping the charts for ...

Mercury Prize winning jazz outfit Ezra Collective have returned with an incredible third album, 'Dance, No One's Watching', alongside various collaborators.

“Dance Moderno,” which mingled Brazilian songs and American jazz standards. It opens with “Oba-là-là” by João Gilberto, an upbeat bossa nova with Mendes’s piano plinking out crisp ...

On their third album, the five-piece pivot their style of jazz into hard funk ... ‘Have Patience’ sees a beautiful piano solo from Joe-Armon Jones that builds into the euphoric, celebratory ...

Still, with great writing, jazz orchestras can also be fun to hear up close on recordings. At this point, it’s been over half a century since most big bands made actual dance music, anyway.

Jazz bands from middle schools and high schools across the Midwest will converge on Purdue University on January 25, 2025 for the 35rd annual Purdue Jazz Festival. Registration will open on October ...

October 1, 2024 • How Women Made Music, a new book out now from NPR, considers what the canon of popular music would look like without men.

September 27, 2024 • As NPR Music's Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Ann Powers discuss on this week's episode, there's a thread of loss running through some of the most notable, thrilling albums out on ...

By Sarah Daniels, Staff Writer On Friday, Sept. 27, the Sunderman Conservatory Wind Symphony Band and the Gettysburg College ...

David Bowie, David Byrne and U2 all paid their respects, either in walk-on music or guest ... vocal line for the upbeat coda to “Wake Up” and jamming out the drum and piano parts for ...