Celebrated pianist and composer Donald Vega receives a GRAMMY nomination in the category of Best Latin Jazz Album for his 2023 recording of As I Travel, an autobiographical suite of compositions ...

When you hear Nicole Zuraitis for the first time, it takes only a few seconds to notice that her approach to making music doesn’t hew very closely to jazz ... standards, too—but everything she ...

Music is everywhere ... on the next crop of jazz musicians in Lebanon, regularly holding vocal jazz and improvisation workshops. Humility, honesty and risk, these are her calling cards—hard to imagine ...

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9, the jazz world lost a legend with the passing of Lou Donaldson ... Outside of the classroom, he continued to refine his ...

In music, a standard is a musical composition ... often with different arrangements. In addition, standards are extensively quoted by other works and commonly serve as the basis for musical ...

We’re playing like we’re the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but it’s jazz. I think it makes a gigantic difference that we’re a real ...

While it’s clear that both the trumpet and saxophone have been integral to jazz music’s development, the former instrument has arguably been the more important of the two. That’s because in ...

This list doesn’t claim to be definitive, but it nevertheless spotlights some of the best jazz soundtracks out there. No surprises that a collection of John Coltrane music amounts to one of the ...

US actress Rashida Jones has remembered her late father, revered record producer Quincy Jones, as a “culture shifter” and a ...

RENO, Nev. (KOLO) - The Reno Jazz Orchestra (RJO) is starting a new type of theme of reimagined classics. This weekend starts off with swing music from the 30s and 40s reimaged in rock ...

Parks and Recs Rashida Jones has remembered her late father, revered record producer Quincy Jones, as a “culture shifter” and ...