The term is applied to radically different compositions across more than 1,000 years of history. We need a better definition.

Houston native Jason Moran has spent the past several months playing the works of Duke Ellington ... sound that comes from the city needs a space,” he said. “I love Austin, but it is not the ...

Duke laterrecounted that, "When I got home I had a real yearning to play. I hadn’t beenable to get off the ground before, but after hearing him I said to myself, ‘Manyou’re going to have to do it.’" ...

If you left your heart in San Francisco, singer Michael Feinstein’s tribute to Tony Bennett will dazzle your soul. Dubbed ...

It was a sunny and lovely Palm Sunday afternoon in Houston and it seemed like the perfect time to get musically reacquainted ...

Harlem, the place to be. So hip, Roy Haynes once told me, cats said they would rather go to Harlem than to heaven.

There are several special releases of interest for our area, including “The Westbound Sound: Foundations,” a second ...

Blanchard brought the trumpet to his lips, and so began a night of bluesy musings commemorating jazz saxophonist and composer ...

In Seattle, two local radio shows on Daybreak Star Radio and KEXP, are joining the efforts to illuminate and celebrate the ...

SRJO is a 17-piece jazz big band featuring a handful of the ... began tap dancing with the group at its “Sacred Music of Duke Ellington” shows when he was a high schooler in 2007.