Laufey has a simple mission — to build a bridge to jazz and classical music for her generation. It's the music the 24-year-old artist grew up on. Her mother is a classical violinist. "I like to say I ...

She could move from a whisper to a roar within a phrase, and her repertoire covered jazz standards, protest songs, blues and ...

Big bands were built in the 1920s and ’30s to blast young dancers with layers of rhythm, but creative composers seeking a larger canvas have kept the form alive. Hear 12 big selections. By Giovanni ...

If you look at the Top 10 songs on the Billboard charts, odds are you’ll find nary a love song. Tracks about heartbreak, friendship and self-empowerment abound, but straightforward ballads about ...

On Dec. 9, 1964, saxophonist John Coltrane, bassist Jimmy Garrison, pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones assembled at Englewood Cliffs, N.J.’s Van Gelder Studio. That one-day session became a ...

Joe Sheehan has traveled quite a distance — literally — since he first began taking piano lessons while growing up in Leechburg. A lifelong student of music and now a Duquesne University professor and ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. It’s a lot of fun to find a world-class jazz singer who grew up in southern ...

Considering the reams of research and writing devoted to The Beatles since their monumental success in the early '60s, it seems almost implausible any writer could find a fresh perspective on the ...