Jazz News

Photographer W. Eugene Smith moved into a loft at 821 Sixth Avenue, in the heart of New Yorka TMs Flower District, in 1957.

New Orleans may be best known for its jazz traditions, but it also developed its own distinctive brand of rhythm and blues via artists including Fats Domino, Professor Longhair and the Meters.

For a mild-mannered man whose music was always easy on the ear, Nat King Cole managed to be a figure of considerable controversy during his 30 years as a professional musician.

Andrew A. High, Jr., a retired Whitmer High School teacher who loved jazz and Shakespeare, died in his West Toledo home Tuesday of complications of Parkinson's disease.

The Last Waltz Ensemble The Last Waltz Ensemble will celebrate rock-n-roll history, The Band , and the music of Bob Dylan when they perform their Sixth Annual Thanksgiving Holiday Concert Celebration at Smith's Old Bar in Atlanta on November 28.

Imagine an unlikely marriage of a dignified and seemingly somber Latin Mass with somebody like tenor jazz saxophonist Coleman Hawkins playing free-wheeling riffs at the breaks.

Central Wisconsin Hub will occasionally post stories from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point's student newspaper The Pointer.

Kenny G has long been the musician many jazz listeners love to hate. A phenomenally successful instrumentalist whose recordings make the pop charts, Kenny G's sound has been a staple on adult contemporary and smooth jazz radio stations since the mid-'80s, making him a household name.

Jazz lovers in the capital have an exciting weekend in store. The 100 Pipers Jazz Utsav 2009 Saturday and Sunday will feature some of the biggest names in international jazz.

Jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis is 75. Writer P.J. O'Rourke is 62. Pianist Yanni is 55.

Nominally, the Police were punk rock, but that's only in the loosest sense of the term.

Brazilian Romero Britto has created the 2010 edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival's poster, adding to a long list of striking images by famous artists that have made the posters desirable objects among collectors.

Norah Jones' first album sounded effortless, almost serene. The second leaned toward careful, flirting with sleepy.

After two successful shows, the Live@theLibrary mus ic series wraps up with a jazz concert Saturday night.

Pianist-composer Michel Camilo laughs as he recalls one particular performance of his Piano Concerto, several years ago at Royal Albert Hall in London with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Leonard Slatkin conducting.

German director Werner Herzog says it's a mistake he'll have to live with. He never wanted to call his upcoming film "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," but says he was forced to by producers who had their eye on building a franchise based on the 1992 dark morality tale, "Bad Lieutenant," starring Harvey Keitel.

ALMOST 40 years after she sang the soaring theme tune to the classic James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, Dame Shirley Bassey is teaming up with Sean Connery once again.

Hulu, the well-know site for TV and other programming is getting into the music video arena, the New York Times' Bits blog reports.

Norah Jones ditches her old band, and most of her trademark piano playing, for her latest release 'The Fall.' Jones sounds more confident and stretches her songwriting muscle on her fourth solo record and the second in a row where she wrote or co-wrote all of the songs.

There are some musicians who are great soloists, and there are others who excel as accompanists or in sections but aren't quite as spectacular in the spotlight.