The drummer Tony Williams’ 1987 album for Blue Note Records, 'Civilization,' highlighted his brilliance as a composer.

Among the generation of jazz musicians that saw rock music not as the enemy but as a viable musical option, Brecker began studying clarinet, then moved to alto saxophone in school, eventually settling ...

With hundreds of artists spanning jazz, rock, blues, gospel, zydeco, and funk, each day of the festival offers a unique mix of legendary performers -- both internationally and locally known.

“A lot of people like to consider it the northernmost city in the Caribbean, or maybe America’s most European city,” ...

The ironic thing is that nobody realized it at the time. Eventually, so-called progressive rock would deliberately incorporate more values from both jazz and classical music, and then the various ...