While music-loving tourists don't necessarily flock to Frenchmen Street to hear modern jazz, if they're lucky and curious ...

There are plenty of fictional stories about utopian societies where life is good and everybody gets along. Of course, the word utopia literally means "no place," suggesting that an actual utopia is ...

Though Damien Chazelle's The Eddy follows the lives of several Parisian jazz artists, it's Glen Ballard's music that's the true main character of the story. According to writer Jack Thorne, the songs ...

As a trumpeter, Marsalis’ playing is as sharp as it’s ever been. He can command the room with an expertly controlled instability, serenading the audience with frenetic New-Orleans-infused grooves.

The Nova Contemporary Jazz Orchestra is a project sponsored by the Nova Jazz Corporation, a Twin-Cities non-profit dedicated to promoting and developing modern big band jazz. Fortunately for us, many ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Four celebrated jazz musicians of the 21st century are paying homage to jazz’s most celebrated historic foursome ...

Contemporary jazz is an umbrella term which describes the diverse array of new music in the jazz idiom produced and recorded in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century. The term ...

Brigham Young University's Contemporary Dance Theatre will present its exciting show “Dance and All That Jazz” with Synthesis, BYU’s big-band jazz ensemble, Thursday through Saturday, Jan. 26-28, at 7 ...

Regular visitors to Jazz at Lincoln Center know Marcus Roberts the pianist — as a former member of Wynton Marsalis' bands and the Jazz at Lincoln Orchestra, he still returns often with his own groups.

­The 4th annual Gulf Coast Summer Fest is gearing up for a weekend of music and jubilation at Community Maritime Park. The 2019 Gulf Coast Summer Fest Jazz Edition – happening Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 – ...