The Tashkent International Jazz Festival brought together artists from Europe, the Americas and Central Asia through a series ...

In postwar America, an epidemic of heroin addiction swept the world of jazz. Greats who developed a habit included John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Miles Davis, and Charlie Parker. Nowadays, jazz has an ...

Raoul Jerome was honored by the University of Southern Mississippi for founding its Jazz Studies Program. Jerome built the university's jazz program from scratch, a process compared to launching a ...

PITTSFIELD — Cacophony ruled in the library of Pittsfield High School on Tuesday evening. Six drummers, rotating on three drum sets trading fours, while an equal number of keyboardists practiced ...

In this jazz tutorial, we reframe a common question: “How do I get into the changes?” The real goal isn’t to focus more on the changes—it’s to internalize the tune so deeply that the changes become ...

The origin of the OU Jazz Program, in its current form, can be traced back to the late 1980’s when the bass professor, John Williams, agreed to direct the jazz band. Williams built the library, ...

The Utah Jazz had a chance to evaluate themselves and their young core against the top two teams in the Eastern Conference this past weekend—facing the Boston Celtics on Friday and the Cleveland ...

In 2013, the Thompson Jazz Studies Endowment transformed the future of CU Boulder’s jazz program. A little over a decade later, the program has gained national recognition, drawing world-renowned ...

This article was first published as the Jazz Insiders newsletter. Sign up to receive the newsletter in your inbox each Friday. KJ Martin has only been in the NBA for five years, but because of all the ...

Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand the present. So this week Alt.Latino shares a reissue by the iconic Chilean folksinger Violeta Parra as a way to understand the current movement of ...

This week we balance our passion for new discoveries with reissued music from an iconic Latin American songwriter. New Music: Something Old, Something New, Something Found... and Jazz Sometimes you ...