Jazz News

The TD Bank Summer Concert Series will stop in 8 towns across the Cape during the 2013 season.

This year's NJC Foundation Gala, to benefit the HOPE Scholarship, will provide new entertainment for those who attend the June event.

You know her fine taste from the outstanding line of musicians she's brought to Mill Bay through the Jazz Vespers series, and Crofton through the Sunday afternoon jazz series.

Virgil Thompson, an American composer and critic, said, " Jazz is the most astounding spontaneous musical event to take place anywhere since the Reformation." That is quite the statement: the most astounding spontaneous musical event since the Reformation.

Welcome to Episode # 100 of the freezingprocess.net podcast!! In this episode we sat down with the members of Portland based Jazz Trio, Acronym .

Singer-songwriter Gwyneth Herbert is set to headline with her new quintet, in what will be her second appearance at the annual festival, along with Martin Taylor and Alan Barnes, and The Two Minds Big Band, featuring Dave O'Higgins and Pete Wraight.

Centreville High School will be filled with the strains of cool jazz May 31, as school's cafeteria becomes the setting for the JazzCats Cafe.

A Loyola University of New Orleans faculty member is among educators and musicians who teamed this week to use elements of jazz to teach the concept of democracy.

On spring evenings, the Temecula air seems a just a bit more magical. The warmth of the sun is tempered by gentle breezes that carry the sounds and smells of wine country.

With music institutions - especially those in less commercial genres - struggling musicians and fans have had to get social and entrepreneurial, increasingly relying on grassroots funding and informal venues.

Randall Childs, 52, and his girlfriend, Karen Young, left their apartment on Detroit's west side one day in June 2011.

Sibongile Mngoma performs at the announcement of the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz line-up in Sandton yesterday.

Jazz star JAMIE CULLUM treated commuters to a show-stopping performance at one of London's busiest railway stations on Tuesday .

Billed as "Modern Speakeasy Music," the Tumbledown House musicians, Gillian Howe and Tyler Ryan Miller, are traveling to Alaska from their home in San Francisco again this month for their fifth Alaskan tour, with four performances booked in Homer.

Zoe Saldana wants Nina Simone fans to give her a chance. The actress will play the jazz legend in a new biopic and fans were up in arms since Saldana isn't a singer.

There's a wide variety of jazz and creative music performances coming up this Memorial Day weekend in St.

Eclectic, outrageous, sometimes mystifying but always imbued with a powerful jazz consciousness, the music of Sun Ra has withstood its skeptics and detractors for nearly three generations.

The music never stops in the Twin Cities. Third Man Records' Pokey LaFarge makes a trip to the Cedar Cultural Center while singer/songwriter Lissie plays a sold out show at the Varsity Theater.

About 19 million words have been written about post-astral-jazz-hop producer Flying Lotus , including some by The Stranger 's Charles Mudede, in this issue's Stranger Suggests.

A former U.S. vice president is indicted for treason, the most powerful earthquake ever recorded hits Chile, "Pac-Man" makes his debut, Johnny Carson signs off, and a deadly tornado devastates Joplin, Mo., all on this day.