Performing was predestined for Tom "TomCat Trumpet" Burke. Growing up around musicians and the touring lifestyle as the son of a Broadway musician, Burke spent his early years moving around the ...

Suresh Singaratnam is a trumpeter of uncommon breadth - unique not only for the small crowd he inhabits as a virtuoso of both classical and jazz styles but also for the continuity and clarity of his ...

Jimmy Smith’s ‘House Party’ is the latest entry in Blue Note Classic Vinyl series. It finds the jazz organist leading an ...

Clifford Brown & Max Roach,' a jazz classic and one of the earliest releases on Verve Records, is being reissued on vinyl.

Gunther Schuller leads the NEC Jazz Orchestra in rehearsal in Jordan Hall, 1990. Schuller coined the term "Third Stream" when referring to the genre that blends classical and jazz. From jazz to ...

The eldest son in a famous clan of jazz musicians, saxophonist/composer/educator Branford Marsalis is enjoying a robust and variegated career. Known mainly as a jazz ...

On March 7, Terell Stafford and his men were winding up a three-week U.S. tour — and, in Stafford's words, "celebrating as hard as humanly possible" at the Kennedy Center Jazz Club in Washington, D.C.

Antoine Reicha’s L’Arte de varier tantalises before you’ve heard a note; the composer’s Opus 57, its theme followed by 57 variations. Reicha was an exact contemporary of Beethoven and reportedly the ...

In 2015, Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment released “Surf,” an album that defied genre conventions, fusing jazz, hip-hop ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Tigertown Classic Jazz delivered the penultimate performance for the Princeton Public Library ...

Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah, who performs Memorial Day weekend during the Atlanta Jazz Festival, grew up in New Orleans, a member of one of the first families of New Orleans music. His grandfather was ...