An American art form now more than a century old, jazz emerged from the streets of New Orleans. The city has produced some of the world's great jazz musicians, none more celebrated than Louis ...

Who were the three women in the iconic 1958 photo known as "A Great Day in Harlem"? All three left their mark on the music in ...

He began classical training at just 12 years old. At 22, he became the first musician to win a Grammy in both jazz and classical music in the same year. But Marsalis doesn't get emotional when ...

The influence of R&B, jump blues and jazz artists are heard on the debut album of Jad Tariq, a Memphis guitarist-vocalist and Rhodes College alum.

As a commercial/classical/woodwind musician, Aaron has performed at the Metropolitan ... and she debuted on record at nine years old with Veronica's House of Jazz (SNOB, 2004). Since that time, Swift ...

In 2005, Larry Appelbaum, a longtime curator of jazz at the Library of Congress, was thumbing through a batch of old acetate tape ... genre’s most innovative artists, Monk and Coltrane, giants ...

Marsalis leads a take on Keith Jarrett’s 1974 LP “Belonging,” and Lehman interprets “The Music of Anthony Braxton,” revealing ...

The Windy City was an important musical outpost from the start of the recorded era, when many blues and jazz musicians moved there from the South and became stars. It’s also known as a cradle of ...