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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Charleston Jazz — one of the Lowcountry’s cornerstone nonprofit arts organizations dedicated to performance, education and ...

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 ...

For its 75th anniversary, the venerable Blue Note Records wanted to celebrate jazz's present as much as its past. The label's current roster includes some of today's most dynamic composers and players ...

While music-loving tourists don't necessarily flock to Frenchmen Street to hear modern jazz, if they're lucky and curious enough, they're likely to run into some of these next-generation, hugely ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. It’s been 15 years since Sade released a new album. There aren’t ...