Five accomplished jazz musicians and band leaders from St. Tammany Parish and New Orleans all come together for the first ...

Inside the mythic Studio A exhibit at the Motown Museum, you can see an actual Gibson 335 guitar and wah-wah pedal Dennis Coffey would use in recording “Cloud Nine,” “Just My Imagination,” and ...

Join us for an extraordinary evening of jazz music that celebrates the art of original composition and showcases the remarkable talent of the Gulf Coast Jazz Collective. Hosted at the Music & Arts ...

Nathan Tokunaga, who graduated from Belmont’s Carlmont High School this year, recently received the YoungArts Award. Past recipients include musicians Jon Batiste and Terence Blanchard. Courtesy High ...

It’s a regular every-other-Tuesday night set for Gregg Stafford, playing traditional jazz at Mahogany Jazz Hall with Joe Lastie’s New Orleans Sound — except then it isn’t regular at all. Three ...

Trumpeter Daniel José Carr doesn’t speak much on stage during the Tuesday jazz jams at True Story Brewing. But one evening in April, after the opening song, he had a few words for the audience.

Feb. 13—For Mardi Gras-style, traditional jazz music, look no further than Preservation Hall Jazz Band as they make their way to KiMo Theatre on Friday, Feb. 21. Hailing from the heart of New Orleans, ...

In 2020, I published A Map of Jazz: Crossroads of Music and Human Rights (WS Publishing), a book that looks at the culture of jazz on a timeline with cultures of the world. At more than 500 pages, the ...

Jazz guitar has always been a dynamic art form, adapting to new styles while staying rooted in tradition. From the early swing and bebop pioneers to today’s fusion innovators, guitarists have expanded ...

Since forming in 1975, the Spokane Jazz Orchestra has provided a space for the improvisational and complex genre of jazz music to be appreciated by musicians and music lovers alike. The Spokane Jazz ...

The special performance is for the 50th-anniversary edition of the Vossa Jazz festival, held in the small lakeside Norwegian town of Vossevangen – Voss is the county; the name of the region is ...