Jazz News

May 20, 2013 - NEW YORK -- A mysterious ring of light appears in Kevin's bedroom.

Much of it has to do with the inauguration of a new Steinway Concert Grand , but for those attending, if they buy into the different shows, the range is wide-reaching. As a Steinway artist, Charl du Plessis, who teaches both classical music and jazz at the UP music department, thought it was time to lobby for a new Steinway for the university and ... (more)

Vocalist and guitar player Jonathan Butler has been labelled as many different things during his musical career; contemporary jazz musician, R&B songwriter, lyricist and vocalist or gospel singer.

The centenary of the birth of Muddy Waters is to be marked at the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival with a concert by his eldest son Mud Morganfield.

It's Wednesday evening and The Historic Red Mill is about to be transformed into a jazz club reminiscent of the 1950s.

Ray Manzarek stands with fellow members of The Doors Jim Morrison , Robby Krieger and John Densmore in 1968.

Bebop bassist Oscar Pettiford made his reputation playing with many of the cutting edge jazz artists of the '40s and '50s. An innovative force, his work with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell and a host of other jazz giants is often credited with expanding and extending the melodic range and solo possibilities of an instrument more often than not limited to the rhythm section. Late in the '40s, while recovering from a broken arm, he added the cello to his repertoire.

Singer Sarah Vaughan came up in the 1940s alongside bebop lions Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker , starting out in Earl Hines ' big band.

Singer Sarah Vaughan came up in the 1940s alongside bebop lions Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker , starting out in Earl Hines ' big band.

The Hartt School will welcome acclaimed tenor saxophonist Javon Jackson as Associate Professor of Jazz and Chair of the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz.

"Buenos Aires Report," the opening composition of Argentine pianist/composer Pablo Ziegler's collaboration with the Netherlands' Metropole Orkest, Amsterdam Meets New Tango, is a good indication of the emotional grit that characterizes the album's aesthetic. Ziegler, as Gustavo Conde's liner notes explain, is "a key exponent of contemporary Buenos Aires urban music, centered on pure tango" seasoned with "aspects of jazz improvisation." This is the new tango, a genre pioneered by Astor Piazzolla , and Ziegler had learned from the master.

JAMIE CULLUM reckons he used to be a show-off but he's stopped trying to be flash thanks to his supermodel wife Sophie Dahl.

The City of Alexandria is hosting its host 36th annual Memorial Day Jazz Festival May 27, from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Waterfront Park at the foot of Prince Street.

Many studies say the job market for college graduates is still weak -- but improving.

Most people watching the American Idol finale Thursday night would say that the duet that Candice Glover sang with Jennifer Hudson on the song "Inseparable" was one of the highlights of the evening.

The St.Dominic Crusaders' ladies soccer team is no stranger to the spotlight. They are the defending Class 2 state champions and are undefeated this season.

As a sideman to bop's reigning kings ' Fats Navarro, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Tadd Dameron ' he was more a bridesmaid than a bride... Read more.

The summer jazz band camp runs June 16-20. The program provides opportunities for students to increase skills, understanding and appreciation of jazz by working closely with the Loyola jazz faculty.

There will be a concert in connection with the 25th anniversary of LA Jazz Scene newspaper on Sunday, May 19, at 12 noon at the JW Marriott hotel in downtown Los Angeles.

Superstar soprano Kathleen Battle brings her "Underground Railroad" program back to the Music Center at Strathmore .