Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra, a jazz big band featuring a handful of the Pacific Northwest’s ample improvisatory talent, ...

Duke Ellington leads his jazz band, circa 1945. Credit - Bettmann Archive/. I n November 2024, I went to see the jazz pianist ...

Moran grew up listening to all manner of music, from jazz to reggae to hip-hop. As a teenager he learned to play the Afrika Bambaataa electro/hip-hop jam “Planet Rock,” turning it into an experimental ...

As Duke’s piano lessons faded into the past, Duke began to show a flare forthe artistic. Duke attended Armstrong Manual Training School to studycommercial art ... play nicer together than others--Pat ...

In 1992, saxophonist Michael Brockman and drummer Clarence Acox led a “pickup group” of Seattle jazz musicians through some of Duke Ellington ... orchestra that plays jazz tunes instead ...

Saxophone legend Marsalis, who lived in Durham from 2022 to 2024, still teaches at NCCU. "Belonging" is his 32nd release.

Jazz musicians at Eckstein Middle School, young Isaac Plummer and Oren Sternberg share their favorite jazz with KNKX ...

An interview with Cline about 'Consentrilk Quartet' and much more. Plus: the best new jazz releases of the month.

“Jazz is freedom,” Duke Ellington said in 1945. “Jazz is the freedom to play anything ... This is an American art form that has a known beginning. By playing gigs together, by sharing ...

He hinted at plans to perform a Duke Ellington tribute concert with local ... Thursday morning, the Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation announced pianist, composer and artist Jason Moran as the ...

Teams from around the world will debut works of animated storytelling, creating the illusion that the Paramount architecture is transforming.

KEVIN WHITEHEAD, BYLINE: Ella Fitzgerald, 1967, with a gaggle of Duke ... DAVIES: Jazz historian Kevin Whitehead reviewed "The Moment Of Truth: Ella At The Coliseum," on Verve. Kevin is the author of ...