One of the more adventurous and transformative eras in jazz happened amid the societal turbulence of the mid- to late-1960s, and Miles Davis and John Coltrane were leading the way. In his new book ...

Tom Roberts plays keyboards at a dinner and jazz evening at Jackson's Restaurant in Southpointe. When you think of jazz in Southwestern Pennsylvania, you might think of Pittsburgh’s blossoming jazz ...

If you deliberately try to cross a line, it becomes a boundary. But if you approach everything in an integrated way, those boundaries naturally disappear, and something new and unique to you emerges.

The 31st annual Vail Jazz Festival returns Labor Day weekend with 26 internationally-renowned artists for three immersive days of music in a beautiful outdoor venue at the Manor Vail Lodge. The ...

On Wednesday night, Carolina Public Humanities held “Music of Hope and Healing with Rahsaan Barber” as a part of the Flyleaf Bookstore’s Fall Music Series. In light of the recent election cycle, ...

The Jazz Age was a time of excess, creativity, and passion that lunged jazz music into the mainstream. It produced music icons like Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, whose innovative sounds advanced ...

Joni Mitchell, Canadian-American icon of folk music and champion of the singer-songwriter genre, released “Joni’s Jazz,” a four-part collection of new and old music, on Friday, Sept. 5. The ...

It was cold and snowy in New York City 100 years ago today, and Aeolian Hall, across from Bryant Park, was packed. Composers Sergei Rachmaninov and John Philip Sousa were in the audience, along with ...

The instrument hasn’t always been a central player in jazz, but the best guitarists have taken up the challenge of finding their own way. Fourteen musicians and writers share their favorites. Credit..

Justin Vellucci Friday, Feb. 23, 2024 10:01 a.m. | Friday, Feb. 23, 2024 10:01 a.m. Shawn Purcell doesn’t remember the precise moment he decided to become a professional musician. He does know that it ...

This article was originally published on Moment Magazine. Music, at its core, is freedom. It cannot be caged by ideology or controlled by propaganda. The Nazis understood that, which is why they tried ...