Jazz News

A day after being feted as the MusiCares Person of the Year, Paul McCartney received a boisterous standing ovation - for practising.

Even sitting with Thara Memory in the same room -- the sparse but spacious rehearsal area in the back of the Musicians Union -- you're left to accept that he's hearing something different than you.

Jaleel Shaw, alto saxophonist, is currently a member of the Roy Haynes Quartet, Charles Mingus Big Band, and performs in various clubs in New York City and abroad with various groups, including the Jaleel Shaw Quintet.

The newest inductees into New Jersey's Hall of Fame include late `Superman' actor Christopher Reeve, Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band and New York Giants owner Wellington Mara.

Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition winner Kris Bowers, a pianist, was one of the first musicians to appear on Piano Jazz Rising Stars .

What songs will be the soundtrack to President Barack Obama 's re-election campaign? Well, you can actually hear them all now online -- the president announced them Thursday via his official Twitter feed.

Tony Bennett performed on the very first Grammy Awards, and as he returns for the 54th show this Sunday, the singer says it never gets old.

In the untouchable repertoire of the Great American Songbook for jazz, there's one tune that will be played at nearly every concert on or around Feb.

Havana Heat: The title characters meet cute and swing hard in Chico and Rita, an animated love story with an infectious Latin groove.

San Francisco is honoring legendary crooner Tony Bennett, whose famous song, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," was recorded 50 years ago.

Michael Jefferson and Jay Byars, during the first episode of SURVIVOR: ONE WORLD when the twenty-fourth installment of the Emmy Award-winning reality series premieres Wednesday, February 15 on the CBS Television Network.

Remember to visit iTunes at 10 p.m. ET on Thursday to watch Paul McCartney performing selections from his new standards album, Kisses on the Bottom .

Tierney Sutton is the vocal department chair at the Los Angeles Music Academy in Pasadena.

"I think solo piano is always the loneliest art form," Taylor Eigsti says. "It's fun, but I think it takes a while for it to become fun at times." "I think solo piano is always the loneliest art form," Taylor Eigsti says.

Angry musicians will protest outside Sunday's Grammy Awards ceremony over a decision to cut 31 ethnic and minority musical categories from the music industry's top awards.

Stevie Wonder has been added to the star-studded lineup of the Keep Memory Alive organization's 16th annual Power of Love Gala , which is scheduled to take place February 18 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

On a warm summer's day in 1958, a musical miracle happened in Harlem. Fifty-eight jazz greats, including Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus and Thelonius Monk, came together to pose for a black-and-white photo known as "A Great Day in Harlem." In honor of Black History month, the Southfield Public Library ... (more)

Reba joins Lady Antebellum and Dierks Bentley among the presenters at this Sunday's Grammy Awards.

Shakespeare described music as "the food of love." If you agree, plan a trip to the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts on Tuesday as the downtown arts school presents "Valentine for Singles " The program is a kind of wedding: one that brings together top improvisers and some of the city's best classical musicians.

Gray Mayfield / Mark Whitfield Quartet Festival Tent June 13 Gray Mayfield-alto sax; Mark Whitfield-guitar; Ryan Kotler-bass; Ted Poor-drums. The Festival Tent is probably the least attractive venue of the festival.