A brass band of skeletons played jazz music, while a giant black spider descended from the North Portico. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And of course, ear training is crucial to any musician who wants to play jazz or any type of improvisation. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“You can put some jazz or something to it. Are these all abandoned houses?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

This includes most types of rock music and some kinds of jazz. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

If you want practice hearing syncopations, listen to some ragtime or jazz. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He had been expert at ragtime and was becoming even more expert at jazz. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They do have a kind of dance called jazz. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, visitors to Andean history note certain ways of doing things that recur in ways striking to the outsider, sometimes in one variant, sometimes in another, like the themes in a jazz improvisation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“For instance,” he continues, and I see that he’s in some kind of jazz sneaker, “I run a performing arts studio in Florida, for gifted children. Like my nephew, Shawn.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Satchmo was named after Louis Armstrong, a famous jazz musician his grandmother loved. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Eighteen in tap shoes,” Shawn says, with one strange, lazy eye distracting me, “and six in jazz flats.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I’m like Mom—not a big jazz fan; it confuses me because it doesn’t have a tune. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It was this old jazz album by Dizzy Gillespie. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I typed “Marcus Johnson” into the search bar, and the page filled with links and pictures of some jazz musician. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Sounds like what would happen if pizza and jazz got married....” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Built-in speakers, too, plus buttons I could push for rhythms like jazz beats and military and drums. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near onto an hour, and I felt myself growing pure again. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Music I’d never heard before was playing, some sort of jazz. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Heavens, no. I’m going to sing jazz on the radio and make heaps of money. Then, when I’m thirty, I shall retire and live on a ranch in Ohio.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

And the eye-shop man said that he was certain that the accordion-man had been a famous jazz musician once and was actually loaded, so I shouldn’t worry about him. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I seem to recall music—jazz or gospel—playing in the back, but conflicting with that I also remember a deep quiet overcoming everything. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But I bet I could make a new kind of jazz dancing that goes better with scat. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Pretty, and Dazzling! to jazz up and stretch the words Jason has in bigger directions, and Joke, so he can be sarcastic if he wants. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could even whistle classical stuff, but most of the time he just whistled jazz. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Everyone kind of shouts and does this thing where we raise up one hand to the ceiling, and then there are a lot of jazz fingers. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, the famous jazz singer is sitting at the bar. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In all jazz, and especially in the blues, there is something tart and ironic, authoritative and double-edged. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

He got accepted at Music and Art High School in Manhattan and had reached a point in his life where jazz was the beginning, the end, and the middle. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which nobody listened to, because they were all jazzed up about a girl wanting to hunt with the men. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I knew him back before...Well, never mind that. I remember he used to listen to a lot of music. He had a record player, like us. He loved jazz music.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Around the room, the kids from the jazz ensemble and choir stood up with varying degrees of willingness and shyness. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Mommy, how come we can listen to smooth jazz in the car, but we can’t listen to other music?” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

So I tried to play along with the ding ding- a-ding ride cymbal thing that always works for jazz and immediately got the beat all turned around and messed up. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the fresh soft strains of jazz blues, like waking up from a long sleep. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trio played jazz tunes during intermissions at the Olympic movie theater in Sequim in exchange for an opportunity to watch the films. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The radio went from news, to jazz, to rap. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The rich amused themselves by dancing the Charleston and the new rhythms of jazz, the fox-trot, and some Negro cumbias that were marvelously indecent. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she would think about a phrase of hurrying jazz music. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The jazz keeps coming from the TV room, but it's a different time now, and a saxophone starts wailing. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

CO told me to shut up!” he crowed, completely jazzed, as I walked away. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s so easy, just listening, to get lost in the jazz tunes and rhythms that fill my head in Roxbury. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

For those looking for a good time, the State Street “Stroll,” between Twenty-Sixth and Thirty-Ninth Streets, offered a lively place to listen to the jazz greats and exchange the latest gossip. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He never listens to jazz or swims anymore. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

My father expected me to attend an Ivy League university, where I'd make straight A's, play football, and spend my off-hours strumming guitar with the student jazz combo. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Albert Ayler was an amazing, avant-garde saxophonist known only to the most die-hard jazz enthusiasts. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Really, what a thing to get all jazzed up about. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put my hand over my head and pretended to groan, but deep inside I was really jazzed. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

No character costumes, no electrical parade, no jazz band in New Orleans Square. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A small jazz combo with a bass, a piano, and a drum set providing the "rhythm" background for a trumpet improvising a solo. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

But just as the Blues, ragtime and jazz emerged among the poor, disconnected communities of the American South, there is a modern-day equivalent that was likewise born in areas of deprivation: hip-hop. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

There’s a group at Columbia that meets Sunday afternoons to jam on this punky fake jazz everyone’s into. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I snapped my fingers, jazzing up Mama’s life. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think his shortcoming increased his appreciation; he loved it all indiscriminately—Beethoven, the latest love ditty, jazz, a hymn—it was all profoundly musical to Phineas. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She noticed an amateur jazz trio laboring through standards on a park corner. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Sun Ra preaching about the “alter destiny” and “the living myth” and powering his spaceship with music—all over strange noises that sound more like a computer malfunctioning than jazz. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turns down the radio, cool jazz, and looks me over, hands on her hips, eyes sad and friendly. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Since he was limited to his record and tape collection, it became his dream that his family might fill the musical void by someday forming a jazz combo. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Here at noon, jazz blared from jukeboxes and dark holes issued forth the cool odors of beer, wine and flesh into the sunlight. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I pointed to the words again, then pointed to Mrs. Lovelace, who was playing some kind of jazz music on the CD player. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

On weekend evenings they gathered around the old upright piano in the club’s parlor and sang for hours as Don Hume tore through jazz tunes, show tunes, blues, and ragtime. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I really have hustler friends and jazz musician friends—I’m becoming part of the two corners of Harlem that fascinate me most. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would have preferred a sit-down dinner, jazz played during the reception, black-and-white photographs, keeping things small. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His collection was vast: classical, jazz, a ton of rock, five albums that featured Tuvinian throat singers. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

It was quiet, but the soft jazz number sounded like the band was in the room with us. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The transition from the chaotic, individualistic, rough-and-ready nature of 1920s jazz to a more streamlined form of swing in the 1930s was mirrored in other musical genres. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Fred had played trumpet in the school jazz band since sixth grade, but he didn’t listen to jazz at home. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

This is the freedom that one hears in some gospel songs, for example, and in jazz. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Had he really been a famous jazz musician? Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The store was large, but it didn’t take me long to spot the back of his head in the jazz section. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the theater guys have assembled into their final pose, complete with jazz hands. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

They don't work on the Sabbath, but they have a fairly loose understanding of what constitutes "work" anyway and usually spend their free time dancing to jazz records. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

This can include the more challenging types of jazz and rock music, as well as Classical. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He says that jazz is punk for old people. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever he sees an argument coming, man oh man, does he get jazzed up. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Linton became good, earning first chair in a jazz ensemble in junior high school and then high school, and winning scholarship opportunities to play music in college. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The big stage is set up across from the food vendors, where the Greendale High School jazz band fills the air with classic tunes. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The historic transformation of music in the jazz age was enabling an equally historic, admittedly embryonic, social transformation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Today was our first music appreciation lesson, and we listened to a classical opera song, followed by some big-band jazz tunes from Duke Ellington. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

You know, with band, and jazz band, and All-City High School Jazz Band. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was jazz music coming from the kitchen. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

My mom’s relatives tended to gather at Southside’s house around the corner—drawn by my grandfather’s cooking, the ongoing games of bid whist, and the exuberant blasting of jazz. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Miss Josie said that long ago he used to listen to jazz all the time,” Laney answered. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The student who is interested in modal jazz will eventually become acquainted with all of the modal scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Mia and I had a great time taking jazz and tap together. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they got to the music concourse, the jazz was already in full swing. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I did a term paper on the history of jazz in Chicago when I was in eighth grade. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She puts on records of slow jazz so we can relax before the intensity of our meeting. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The melting pot that is America has yielded brand new genres such as big band, jazz, blues, rock and roll, etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

For dramatic purposes, Curly had jazzed up a few of the details. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stand side by side, watching the musician’s slide dance up and down, the brass blowing jazz. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

They had a really nice collection of jazz records, and they kept playing them all through lunch. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Walton got me a bunch of different classical, Broadway, and jazz music tapes. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

In the memorandum, Himmler also warned the police about young people who ignored German culture and preferred jazz music and swing dance. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had a point: from the very beginning, jazz as a style thwarted definition, so various were its manifestations in different places. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I Got My Nickname I’m not that big on jazz music, but Dad is. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

“A guy from the high school jazz band,” he said. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Butterscotch slept nearby, and Dad’s favorite jazz station played a saxophone snoozer. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

There are many books on these musics, particularly on jazz and reggae. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The pentatonic aspect of Debussy’s piano music provided much inspirational fuel for later generations of jazz pianists. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

His harmonic experiments flowed freely into later incarnations of jazz, the origins of which were most certainly not European, and have become part of a common musical heritage. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And if excessive amounts of rehearsal time were any indication of success, we were surely destined to go down in jazz history. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose we should be thankful that Alfred came home for dinner instead of going to one of the jazz clubs,” Mama said. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The Nazis forbade American swing music and jazz and other music considered “un-German.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She plays tenor sax in the jazz band. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But he did nine in jazz flats at the competition in Virginia Beach, didn’t you Shawn?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

In a room off the bar there was a good jazz band playing. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Famous ones, like Lionel Hampton himself, great jazz artists like Duke Ellington, and many other familiar faces from back at the Roseland. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad started driving while I stared out the window, zoning out to his favorite jazz station on the radio. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It jazzed and jangled Billy’s skin without thawing the ice in the marrow of his long bones. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The radio came to life, cushioning the space between us with soft, bluesy jazz. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I began to write a warm invitation and jazzed it up with graphics. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You think it’s okay with God that we’re listening to jazz and we just came out of church?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And there’s the morning announcements over the loud speaker about all the activities the good kids do like drama and jazz band, but that still leaves us eight and a half minutes of awkwardness. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“How do you know the Beiderman likes jazz?” he asked when they were out of Mama’s earshot. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

To attract women, speakeasies began featuring jazz bands, torch singers, and other forms of entertainment along with their booze and food. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

As he walked from room to room in the house, jazz assailed him from phonograph after phonograph, and he sometimes threw up his hands in disgust. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

We really missed you in jazz band this week. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like last week in homeroom when Mr. Bontaff made this whole big deal about how Matt had done such an amazing job for his trumpet solo in the jazz band concert. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Marcy and Lou went to a jazz concert together, and she had a great time despite her avowed dislike of jazz. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

For a comprehensive audiovisual overview of jazz, try Ken Burns' PBS documentary. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The radio blared, filling the back of the car with the sound of soft jazz. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

A follow-up might focus on blues, jazz and other genres inspired by the music of the Civil Rights movement. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

There was a little jazz combo playing in the corner, and the waiters circulated with trays of jumbo shrimp and stuffed mushrooms. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“My dad loves jazz CDs,” she said, shuffling through the collection. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“The San Antonio River. It flows lazy, through downtown. The River Walk, it’s called. Weekends, there’s partying. People in small boats, some eating, drinking by the river. All kinds of music. Mariachi, jazz, pop.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

With the emergence of jazz, all this was to change. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Mother went straight to the counter and told the attendant we needed a black leotard, white tights and jazz shoes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Though Jelly Roll called a lot of his numbers ‘Blues’, we now know this as the beginning of a distinct genre of its own: jazz. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Some old swing-style jazz melody with a calypso beat chortled from a jukebox in the corner. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

From commercial music—pop and rock to jazz, from folk songs to national songs, religious and holiday songs, and multicultural music—children hear the rhythms, melodies, and harmonies that make up their musical environment. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Around the time that ragtime and the Blues were giving way to jazz in mainland America, a form of music called son was becoming popular in Cuba. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I glanced up at Ellie as I sat down to put on my jazz sneakers. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

This frantic, somersaulting style turned within a few years into bebop, the elite modern jazz of the late 1940s and ’50s. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Barry’s dad was a little famous in the Lower Nine: His band, Roddy Tucker and the Blasters, played in jazz clubs around New Orleans. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Still others projected their hurts and longings into more naive and mundane forms—blues, jazz, swing—and, without intellectual guidance, tried to build up a compensatory nourishment for themselves. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Any decent book on playing jazz, or any teacher familiar with jazz, will introduce the student to these chords and scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I looked up at the half smile on Fred’s face, wondering whether he still had liked playing patriotic songs with Mr. P, while he was listening to experimental jazz upstairs in his room. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Now Roberto Vega was bouncing his head as if jazz were being played somewhere not far away and the congregation was coiling slowly like a snake, waiting for the Holy Spirit to strike. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In my innocence, I suspected that the obscene jazz issuing forth from the loudspeakers on the walls of the factory was at the root of the apathy which I was witnessing among the workers. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad is partial to jazz, and every chance he gets, he winks at me, takes out Mom’s Mozart disc, then pops in a CD of Miles Davis or Woody Herman. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the spread of jazz into northern and Midwestern cities had coincided with the massively increased availability of wartime factory work, which had encouraged mass black migration in the same direction. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Blues scales, used in blues, jazz, and other African-American traditions, grew out of a compromise between European and African scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It’s called jazz, and Mrs. Walton’s been teaching it in chorus for two weeks now. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

My best friend was a white guy about sixty years old named Ernie Santosuosso who was the Globe jazz critic then. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t talk about sports or bad movies or loading the dishwasher properly or weird jazz. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

They’re pumping a bit of jazz from time to time, which helps. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rose finally figured it out and said, “Oh! You don’t like jazz? Me neither!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

When they got to the music concourse, the jazz was already in full swing. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Music from the jazz ensemble playing in the background, servers coming up to me every few seconds with a new offering. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In jazz, the shift in emphasis meant bigger bands comprising more structured families of instruments playing well-honed, written-out arrangements, with occasional well-defined solos emerging from the texture. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He had to keep moving like a shark, and in the end he was a tragic ghost of a person instead of a stream of milky way jazz under open highways. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Of the fifty students, about half did jazz, the other half classical, so it was a small crew. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She just hums along with the jazz that still spills from her record player. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

My mom turned on the car radio to the only station she ever listened to, the one that played smooth jazz. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The jazzing with hot water had cheered them up. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as jazzed as I was, I couldn’t forget how close Abbey and I had come to being shot. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

As it was passed from ragtime to early ‘Dixieland’ jazz bands, though, syncopation became more sophisticated: now, instead of the right hand cheating the left, one instrumentalist was playing against another. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

My father went to work every day dressed in the blue uniform of a city laborer, but at night he showed us what it meant to love jazz and art. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Leroy’s band would play some jazz and the whole thing was going to turn into a party that would end up in Big Joe’s place. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, bring them upstairs and ask Miss Josie if she wants them. There’s some jazz in there.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It was an All-City jazz band rehearsal day, and when I got to the high school, I found out that Brian was at home sick. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The songs vary from jazz standards to boy band covers, but all the performers have one thing in common: they sort of suck. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Jazz celebrity though he was, Duke Ellington disliked his music being pigeonholed as ‘jazz’; he preferred simply to call it ‘American music’, and he experimented in many forms and genres. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She’d teach chemistry with jazz hands and finger puppets if she thought that would inspire us. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“And me and Oliver left him a record. A jazz record,” Laney added. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Despite jazz’s African-American origins in the Blues and in New Orleans’s funeral procession bands, the members of the Original Dixieland Jass Band itself were the children of white European immigrants. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A jazz album roared from the home-built stereo shelves in the dining room, and we dined on a potluck brought by loved ones—baked ham, Jell-O molds, and casseroles. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There was a girl there trying to sell some old jazz records but nobody was buying. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

After all, this is the city of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, of jazz, gangsters, and speakeasies. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Clothes remained a subject of considerable friction, but the matter that threatened to affect Dad’s stability was jazz. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

And heaven, as I envisioned it, had to be a place full of jazz. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I think my daddy used to listen to jazz records, but Mama doesn’t play them anymore. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Hazel and her mother—Queen Marie, she liked to be called—lived in an old apartment above a jazz club. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Whether the music is classical, modern, jazz, or pop, listen for repeated sections of music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It bore no trace of pain or self-pity, carrying only good humor and softness and just the tiniest hint of jazz. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I mean, I’m trying to be. That’s what I want, to perform in a jazz band. It’s why I came here.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He switched on the digital clock radio and tuned it to a jazz station. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s got a good beat. You like jazz?” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

After the song ends, the DJ announces that Billy Eckstine is coming to Detroit next month for a special concert at one of the jazz supper clubs. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Soojin has jazz and ballet classes twice a week after school, and any chance she has she leaps down the empty hallways at school. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Instrumental jazz buzzed in my ear, sending my current stress level to a 6.9. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

As he drives slowly down the crowded street, he turns on his latest playlist—he likes jazz. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

At seven, she began playing the trombone, and when she was grown, she played jazz in bands that had never allowed a woman trombonist to perform with them before. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

It later fell out of favor and was known only to some jazz connoisseurs. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

There are members of the crew reclining in velvet chairs, sipping neon-bright martinis with faraway eyes, and listening to a live band that plays smooth jazz. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

People always assume that because I am into classical music, I’m a jazz aficionado. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to my mother, as a younger man Southside had made a point of pumping jazz into his seven children, often waking everyone at sunrise by playing one of his records at full blast. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

One thing that makes me older is my mental state— I listen to jazz, read, try to educate my mind. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My older brother’s always after me to hit the streets with him, calls me a girly man for loving books and jazz. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father loves jazz and has an extensive collection of records and reel-to-reel tapes he used to enjoy after returning home from work. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

There is no television to watch in the evenings, just an old stereo on which they sometimes play a symphony or jazz. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Watras lent me a pair of really expensive bongos to use at home, along with a huge stack of ancient Latin jazz records. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She does finger-wiggling jazz hands and then moves into high knee lifts like in PE—with enough enthusiasm that I wonder if it’s possible for her knee to smash into her nose. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

For music that has been combining elements of both for long enough to have developed its own traditions, listen to any jazz, blues, gospel, Latin dance, or reggae. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A deep gloom spread through me, heightened by noise of talk, laughter and jukebox jazz from the bar downstairs. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not even Dad’s light jazz radio station could calm me. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It’s lined with framed paintings, and there’s jazz music faintly floating through the air. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Those people might have much better things to do than to loiter about Levy Pants, such as composing jazz or creating new dances or doing whatever those things are that they do with such facility. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There goes a jazz tune, Larry McCaslin thought to himself, and followed her into a bookshop, where neither of them looked at books. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peewee said that it sounded like a South Side jazz club when the brothers were right. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ummm... all right And she burst into this fantastic, complicated jazz thing. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There they were, in his living room in New Haven, awash in soft jazz and daylight, and she looked at him, her good, bewildered man, and felt the day take on a sad, epic quality. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I wake up to the scratchy sound of jazz coming from downstairs. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He made his name with ragtime but this style, as we saw in the previous chapter, was in the early 1920s being superseded all over America by jazz. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Soojin gets four stars on every song when she and I play together, but she’s been studying ballet, tap, and jazz since she was six. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

For me, it was a throwback to the way I’d been raised—the jazz at Southside’s house, the piano recitals and Operetta Workshops put on by my great-aunt Robbie, my family’s trips to downtown museums. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My mother’s voice was smoky, like a jazz singer’s. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

As the ferry pulled away from the dock, the band switched over to jazz tunes and some of the students poured out onto an upper deck and began to dance. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The whole street is stacked with buildings that have signs advertising famous singers and jazz bands like Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, and Duke Ellington. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Florence hated the trombone, disliked jazz, and wanted to be reunited with her daughters, who were still living in Martinsburg with their father. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Because it was the music we'd grown up with, I liked to think that my sisters and I had a genuine appreciation of jazz. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Modal jazz, on the other hand, is fairly new, having developed around 1960. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He had every Blue Note record ever released, and he just gave me a jazz education. Snapshot: Paloma Faith Releases ‘Fall to Grace’ in America 2012-11-29T15:22:41Z

Lamar was born in Compton, and he triangulates his West Coast hip-hop heritage with hard funk and jazz poetry. Kendrick Lamar’s Capacious New Record 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

The Latin jazz community, he added, “put a good proposal together this year, and we see the results of that.” ArtsBeat: Grammys Reinstate Latin Jazz Award 2012-06-08T15:25:34Z

“We’re there all day listening, reading, discussing,” one of the 2018 jurors, the jazz violinist Regina Carter, said in a recent interview. A Year After Kendrick Lamar, Will the Music Pulitzer Embrace Pop? 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

Yet the Williams canon radiated a meta-consciousness of jazz as a creative act. Arts & Leisure Preview: Ultimate Box of Jazz? Not Exactly 2011-03-17T17:46:52Z

Correction: December 22, 2011 An earlier version of this post misspelled the surname of the jazz musician Miles Davis. ArtsBeat Blog: Steve Jobs to Receive a Grammy 2011-12-22T16:55:55Z

I was a kid who grew up with jazz. Steve Reich on Schoenberg, Coltrane and Radiohead 2013-03-01T07:00:12Z

Now a new video platform is seeking to raise the bar, offering a curated library of high-quality video content from across the jazz world. Netflix for Jazz? Quincy Jones’s Qwest TV Takes Concerts and Films Digital 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

"I hung out in Harlem and saw Miles Davis and all the jazz cats," she continued. Legendary blues singer Etta James dies in Calif. 2012-01-20T16:40:14Z

In “Unfinished Conversation,” Mr. Hall says that jazz feels like “modern life.” On Multiple Screens, John Akomfrah Deftly Weaves Tales of the African Diaspora 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

He also hosted jazz programs on local television. Gene Norman, Music Producer With an Ear for Jazz, Dies at 93 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

He studied classical music but was soon drawn to the jazz of Art Tatum, Fats Waller, Nat “King” Cole and other pianists. Buddy Greco, the ultimate lounge singer, dies at 90 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

Born in London, he grew up idolizing pop divas like Whitney Houston and Chaka Khan, and he spent his teens singing jazz and musical theater. Sam Smith, Up For Six Grammys, Is Getting Used to Arenas 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Like the equally knee-knocking Village Vanguard in New York, it seems to be a place hotel concierges recommend to guests, who come regardless of the band, but that is also respected among the jazz cognoscenti. The best jazz clubs in Paris 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Western critics have likened Mr. Suzuki’s psychedelic style to contemporaneous movements like free jazz and Pop Art, but he credited the influence of a more traditional — and decidedly Japanese — form: kabuki theater. Seijun Suzuki, Director Who Inspired Tarantino and Jarmusch, Dies at 93 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

In the coming decades, Williams stayed abreast of the major developments in jazz, following her ear and leading by example. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

Evidence points to the contrary: her skin cracks in daylight; she has a habit of munching strangers and car upholstery; and she has developed a bizarre hankering for smooth jazz. REVIEW: If I Stay and Life After Beth: What If She's Not Dead? 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

“That music, its jazz influences, that American view of Paris, always fascinated me,” Mr. Wheeldon said in an interview in his office, overlooking the Seine. Christopher Wheeldon Directs ‘An American in Paris’ for Broadway 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Some of the most trusted names in jazz and a host of innovative young disrupters brought cross-media collaborations and fresh approaches to the genre. The Best Jazz of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

She recorded her first jazz album, "I Wanna Be Loved By You, Molly Sings" with her father's band at age 6. Molly Ringwald rediscovers her jazz roots 2013-04-18T16:01:04Z

"In kathak so much is rigidity and maths in the form, and within that I try to find freedom, like a jazz musician." A life in dance: Akram Khan 2010-09-27T07:00:00Z

The writer and broadcaster Robert Elms described it as "the soul of jazz as it reaches back across continents and ages". 50 great moments in jazz: The shortlived cry of Albert Ayler 2010-09-27T16:53:00Z

The concert began Monday morning with ritual drumming and a string of jazz performances. New Orleans concert marks International Jazz Day 2012-04-30T15:49:09Z

Representatives of various marginalized communities – women, African Americans, and jazz lovers – emerged to take the film down a peg. The La La Land backlash: why have critics turned on the Oscar favorite? 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

People who read about music on the Internet might recognize Nels Cline as the guitarist for Wilco, with whom he’s played since 2004, but he’s been a renowned jazz guitarist for much longer. Your week in Seattle music: Zola Jesus, Bubba Sparxxx and more 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

The Tom Harrell Quintet plays jazz, and improvisation is built in. BalletNext and Abraham.In.Motion Experiment With Jazz 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

"All that galley" is the professional publisher's bright revision of the cliche, "all that jazz." Poem of the week: Hymn of Hymns by John Rodker 2013-04-29T16:24:03Z

Empathy is a word heard a lot around jazz musicians, sometimes to the point of cliché. Jazz Musicians Memorialize Charlie Haden 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Of the two effortlessly breezy jazz guitarists playing Sunday’s George Benson concert at Wolf Trap, one will be 71 years old, the other 17. Andreas Varady and George Benson: One jazz stage for two of a kind 

“You” is ridiculous and depraved and moody and dark, but mercifully it leaves you jazzed, not miserable. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

The French composer Darius Milhaud was heavily influenced by jazz, which he heard in the United States when he visited and then when he emigrated before . Music Review: The Knights Play the Naumburg Bandshell 2012-07-25T21:52:26Z

If you haven’t seen the group lately, this might be a good time, as Santos Neto has written some wonderful new material, which stirs up jazz improv with a variety of Brazilian rhythms. Jovino Santos Neto tops Eastside Jazz Extravaganza | Concert preview 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

If records tell any truth about the daily life of jazz — they do, sometimes — this seems like a Chicago moment. Chicago and Jazz at Play, Ideally 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

The jazz people and the real dance people, about 15 to 20 percent of the audience, they’ll get it. An Interview With Garth Fagan and Wynton Marsalis 2012-09-26T18:22:55Z

Local jazz fans have been betting on Gazarek's chances ever since she sang with the award-winning Roosevelt High School Jazz Band. Seattle's Sara Gazarek debuts at Triple Door with dazzling new CD 2012-08-09T20:28:03Z

An associated foundation promotes jazz education, supports elderly jazz musicians, and works to preserve Preservation Hall’s collection of photos and other archival material. Sandra Jaffe, co-founder of Preservation Hall, dies 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

Sure, you can hear stylish chanteuses and big bands, but the city is also a hub for contemporary jazz. The best jazz clubs in Paris 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

In his earlier solo work, even before Pop Art, Frimkess had decorated his pieces with images from popular culture, touching on multiculturalism, overpopulation and jazz. | An 84-Year-Old Ceramist’s New York Moment 2014-03-03T23:45:27Z

The Knights, a chamber orchestra, will be joined on July 9 by the jazz and classical pianist Aaron Diehl for Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” and selections from Mary Lou Williams’s “Zodiac Suite.” Tanglewood Is Back This Summer, With Beethoven and Yo-Yo Ma 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it’s opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. Patti Smith’s most personal interview: “The things that make me feel strange – I’ve transformed them into work” 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

You liken it to being a jazz musician. Comedian Jeff Garlin isn't afraid of political correctness 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

Charles attended the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, focusing on jazz vocal studies. Melanie Charles knows the impact Black women have had on jazz 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

En route to Louis Armstrong Park, McCusker, a cool cat in a straw fedora, explained the history of jazz, a musical mutt of blues, ragtime, dirges and marches. New Orleans celebrates 300 years of letting the good times roll 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

Foster was recognized in 2002 by the National Endowment for the Arts as a Jazz Master, the nation's highest jazz honor . Saxophonist Frank Foster dies; played with Basie 2011-07-27T10:41:12Z

Like her early work, it evokes Joni Mitchell before the jazz and cigarettes kicked in. Gangsta Folk 2011-03-13T09:12:36Z

He forged a movement vocabulary that wed street life, jazz attitude and formal ballet in a way no one had ever done before. Twyla Tharp’s Rehearsal: Here and Now Forever 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

At night he sang and played drums in a jazz band, and when his GI Bill scholarship money ran out, he decided to forget about the law and make music his career. Jon Hendricks, master of scat, jazz vocalization and sly lyrics, dies at 96 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Kali is loping cool jazz, like Manhattan Transfer on Mandrax, or the xx in a Soho bar in 1958 surrounded by beatniks. New band of the day – Sonnymoon (No 1,340) 2012-08-30T14:55:34Z

One day the jazz pianist did, Mathis proudly recalled, and even tickled a few ivories. Johnny Mathis — time for a full-scale comeback? 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Most of the artists acknowledge the influence of jazz and hip-hop in their music, even as it defies categorization. The Changing Sound of Baltimore 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

Ahead of the Academy Awards, the cast and director of Whiplash talk about making the jazz drumming film. Whiplash stars drum up Oscar hopes 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

But like a true jazz vocalist, he’s never strayed too far from the blues. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Vocals 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z

The flugelhorn, pioneered in jazz by the late Art Farmer, is like a trumpet, but with a deeper, buttery sound. Pieces of a Dream, Dimitri Matheny bring smooth and buttery jazz | Concert preview 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

“Shake, Rattle and Roll”  The swinging lilt of this version suited Big Joe, who grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, a bedrock of  jazz and blues in the 1920s and 30s. The Man Who Turned Blues Into Rock & Roll 2013-05-18T11:00:50Z

This year offers plenty of great concerts, from alt-rock to R&B to jazz. 9 hot Seattle-area concerts to catch in holiday season 2021 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

Still, by the end of the decade he had broken through with mainstream audiences in a bigger way than almost any jazz musician since World War II. Dave Brubeck, Jazz Musician, Dies at 91 2012-12-05T18:31:41Z

The basis for the opera is Parker’s own unrealized dream of composing an opera that incorporates jazz and classical elements. ‘Charlie Parker’s Yardbird’ at Seattle Opera offers an unlikely mash-up of jazz and opera. How well does it work? 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

Clarinettist Acker Bilk, who personified the trad jazz revival of the 1950s and '60s, has died after a lengthy illness at the age of 85. Acker Bilk: In his own words 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

But finding, or making, a place for herself in the jazz world hasn’t been easy. A Tap Dancer’s Place: After the Horn Player, Before the Drummer 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

An overdue candidate for Britain's jazz musician of the year prize was Guy Barker – particularly since, after a three-decade career as a trumpet star, he's lately added a powerful new string to his bow. Take five: John Fordham's month in jazz – May 2013-05-21T16:06:18Z

These days it’s Ms. Lerman, now 26, who is doing the asking, as the host of her own session every Wednesday evening at Smalls jazz club in Greenwich Village, the only weekly jam in town. Critic's Notebook: Tap Dance Jams at Smalls, Led by Michela Marino Lerman 2012-08-31T16:32:28Z

But he soon pivoted to the electric “jazz fusion” sounds that had become trendy; he reinvented this, too, as a fearsome, at times cacophonous, relentlessly funky sound. Ornette Coleman’s music polarized jazz, then became part of its DNA 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

For jazz musicians, “woodshedding” refers to the taking of a kind of lunatic sabbatical—a retreat to some isolated idyll, wherein the artist disconnects from his community and plays relentlessly and with a pathological focus. A Quest to Rename the Williamsburg Bridge for Sonny Rollins 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

It was Terry’s favorite meeting, full of low-bottom drunks and junkies — people from nearby halfway houses, bikers, jazz musicians. I am cuckoo, but hope is coming 2012-12-12T21:01:00Z

When Stewart became a professional photographer, jazz players were among his first subjects. Review | In the galleries: ‘Time Capsule’ retrospective highlights jazz’s influence on Frank Stewart 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

“There was this highly chromatic post-bop; then music that combined elements of jazz and contemporary classical; and jazz combined with world music.” A New Focus on Eric Dolphy, in Washington and Montclair 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

With a skilled three-piece band, it’s the most musically adventurous of the shows I saw: part indie, part Arabic, almost a little bit jazz. Review: Dark Comedy, a Farcical Marriage and the Self at the New York Musical Festival 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

Depending on his mood, the chief creative officer for Nissan and Infiniti plays classical music on his cello, or jazz on his upright bass. Dining with Infiniti Design Director Shiro Nakamura 2011-08-20T18:44:26Z

In these movies, jazz is a challenge and an albatross. Jazz Onscreen, Depicted by Black Filmmakers at Last 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

Barely 30, Sands is already known as one of the most commanding pianists of jazz’s young generation, a gospel-infused technician with contemporary sensibilities and a deeply rhythmic approach. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

When “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” arrived, musicians were in the early stages of figuring out how the theme-heavy records favored by jazz artists and Frank Sinatra might be adapted for rock ‘n’ roll. “Sgt. Pepper’s” at 50: was it a concept album or an identity crisis? 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

That's the signature sound of much new jazz today, after all. Dave Manington's Riff Raff: Hullabaloo – review 2013-01-24T23:30:01Z

Tula’s is special because it features mainly local musicians, a rarity in the jazz world. Tula’s Restaurant and Jazz Club to say goodbye with a final party, after decades of developing local talent 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

Last Sunday was the club’s last bona fide jazz set. Cornelia Street Café, a Pillar of Greenwich Village Experimentation, Closes Its Doors 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

Jimmy arrives with a gramophone and some early jazz records that he uses to teach dancing at Pearse-Connolly Hall, an abandoned community center that he and his friends refurbish. Review: ‘Jimmy’s Hall’ Pits the Church Against a Populist Gathering Place 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

According to online biographies, Barry trained as a classical pianist but turned his attention to jazz and learned to play the trumpet. James Bond composer John Barry dies aged 77 2011-01-31T11:44:50Z

For many back Americans, experimentation in jazz and other art forms had serious “political power,” he noted. Cornel West: “Donald Trump is a horror many of us can’t wrap our minds around” 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

Blakey, for one, famously said that jazz “washes away the dust of everyday life.” Wayne Shorter, a Jazz Hero Whose Goal Was ‘to Fear Nothing’ 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

Latin jazz is not only its own, important category; it is a fecund, ever-changing genre fed by many rivers. New CDs: Bobby Sanabria releases hot new Latin jazz album 2012-08-13T21:24:04Z

Mr. Rollins, the tenor saxophonist who at 84 is upheld as one of jazz’s greatest improvisers and a living embodiment of its ideals, comes across as rueful and cowed in the piece. Jazz’s Year of Complaint, Citing ‘Whiplash’ and The New Yorker 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

One of my favorite passages in “Letter from a Region in My Mind” is about jazz. Barry Jenkins on “The Fire Next Time” and “If Beale Street Could Talk” 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z

Their funky, danceable renditions of songs by the Beatles, Carole King and others extended their reach beyond jazz fans, as did original songs by Mr. Henderson like “Keep That Same Old Feeling.” Wayne Henderson, a Founder of the Jazz Crusaders, Dies at 74 2014-04-10T00:02:26Z

“A-Tisket, A-Tasket” became a jazz standard and a crossover success for Webb and Fitzgerald, who is also credited as a writer on the song. Van Alexander, Composer of ‘A-Tisket, A-Tasket,’ Dies at 100 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

There was as much soul as punk — and a bit of jazz — in Lightmare’s style, and the band sounded as good at half speed as full tilt. Review | At DC9 show, Lightmare’s mix of soul and punk sounds great at half speed and full tilt 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z

Redemption arrives with the closing “Ragtime,” which doesn’t sound like ragtime jazz at all, but evokes its spirit. Neko Case, 'The Worse Things Get ...' album review 2013-09-03T02:35:00Z

While the modernist comparison with Pollock is apt, I would argue the term “free jazz” is a continuing misnomer—for all its humanistic abandon, Coleman’s music is deeply grounded in structure and concept. Seeing Ornette Coleman 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age. A Conversation with Bonnie Raitt 2013-10-11T09:45:43Z

They do more than play the old fiddle music that blends Celtic strings, Dixieland jazz, African American blues, German polka, and Mexican mariachi. 40 Things I Love About Texas 2010-06-02T17:24:00Z

This annual festival brings some of jazz’s greatest rising talents to Fort Greene, a Brooklyn neighborhood that’s rich with black musical history but no longer has any year-round jazz clubs. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

Besides listening to acoustic jazz as a youngster, he grew up in America’s Bible belt, playing gospel music at Baptist churches in Houston, Texas. Playing outside the box 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Five times a week Ms. Catroux takes jazz dance classes centered on the Matt Mattox method at a studio whose address she declined to divulge. 19 Things About Betty Catroux 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

“He was a master jazz writer. The master photographer. He was just a master of everything he touched.” Sy Johnson, Arranger Who Worked Closely With Mingus, Dies at 92 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

Now in its 15th year, the Winter Jazzfest has never had a more bountiful lineup of contemporary jazz talent. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

I started in music in 1960, ’61, around there, and I didn’t hear any jazz until ’66, ’67. Arturo Sandoval says he owes everything to the audience 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

The jazz trumpeter, band leader and composer Terence Blanchard is composing an opera based on Griffith’s life called “Champion,” with a libretto by the playwright Michael Cristofer. ArtsBeat: A Deadly Night in the Boxing Ring Is Grist for an Evening at the Opera 2012-05-16T21:21:59Z

Her delivery on Wednesday, much to her credit, avoided a lot of the treacly swooping and breathiness she used to use in jazz literature. Opera star, jazz artist Barber mix it up at the Kennedy Center 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

When a gifted young jazz musician holds one hero above the rest, it can be hard to see past the anxiety of influence. Review: Melissa Aldana Makes a Focused Statement in ‘Back Home’ 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

Even if the pianist’s myth rests on just a handful of published songs and memories of other performances and impromptu sessions from the early ’60s, his whispered artistic largess continues to pervade Philadelphia’s jazz scene. The Pianist Hasaan Ibn Ali’s Lone Album Arrives, 56 Years Later 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

Dave Brubeck died at 91 on 5 December, having not only made jazz many friends it might not otherwise have had, but having challenged sectarianism of all kinds too. Take Five 2012: John Fordham's year in jazz 2012-12-18T14:09:36Z

Crouch was deeply immersed in the past and in some ways preferred it — scorning fusion and other more recent incarnations of jazz and identifying with the term “Negro” over African American. Stanley Crouch, contentious man of letters, dead at 74 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

These discs contain all types of audio, including radio excerpts, early jazz music and recordings made at amusement parks. Wax Cylinders Hold Audio From a Century Ago. The Library Is Listening. 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z

By the end of the 1960s, Coleman’s music had gone from a polarizing force in jazz to an inseparable part of its DNA. Ornette Coleman’s music polarized jazz, then became part of its DNA 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

However, beyond jazz, his reputation has steadily grown. How Miles Davis electrified jazz 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z

The concert was part of International Jazz Day, an annual UNESCO-designated celebration held each April 30 to demonstrate, as its brochures state: “the power of jazz . . . to bring people together.” Another freedom to celebrate in Washington: Jazz 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

In homage to the Five Points neighbourhood it calls home – once a hotbed of the American jazz scene – Spangalang takes its name from a jazz term referring to a cymbal pattern. Top 10 craft beer bars in Denver 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

After intermission Ms. Fleming leapt to a work from 2005, “Songs From ‘The Book of Hours: Love Poems to God,’ ” settings of Rilke texts by the jazz pianist and composer Brad Mehldau. Music Review: Expectations Are Made to Be Upended 2011-01-12T22:00:01Z

He was also an accomplished jazz soloist, his creativity exemplified in two albums that he made for the Zephyr label, in a duo setting with the cornettist Warren Vaché. Derek Watkins obituary 2013-03-25T16:29:10Z

But while the school is new, his program, Timbalooloo, is not: Mr. Etkin founded it in 2005 to teach jazz and world music to young children as a conversation among instruments. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

The photographer was deeply into jazz and knew nothing about folk music, but sensing intriguing story possibilities, Russell showed up at Gerde's Folk City in Greenwich Village to photograph 20-year-old Bob Dylan in action. 'Bob Dylan: NYC 1961-1964' features photographs of the young folk bard 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

The pairing of improv jazz textures with the escape from courtly life is particularly well done on cuts like “Arrival.” Jonny Greenwood: First Radiohead, Now Orchestras and Film 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

This is a chance to catch a true jazz master. 10 upcoming Seattle concerts to get excited about 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

Lucky for us, then, that instead, we got an inspired and joyful set from a high-grade local Brazilian jazz group. Review | D.C.’s beloved Blues Alley comes back to life with a joyful set from Veronneau 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

After an intermission that feels more like 2 a.m. in a 1940s jazz club, Act II morphs from something resembling traditional burlesque into a strange landscape of sexual fear and discovery. | An NC-17 Retelling of ‘The Nutcracker’ 2013-12-09T19:01:54Z

If his performances evoke a history of jazz piano, his influences are shuffled into restless, exploratory improvisations, whose dynamics continually shift. 2010-01-08T04:07:00Z

Most of the great entertainers in Soundies played jazz, but there are films with the blues, cowboy tunes, Hawaiian melodies, polka music, rumbas, the works. The Swinging, Jamming Musical Charms of 1940s Soundies 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

Any condescending jazz nerd will tell you Billie Holiday and Dizzy Gillespie sound infinitely better on wax, and they do. Kitty’s Canteen on the Lower East Side 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

In recent weeks, the nonprofit organization Giant Step Arts has been presenting free concerts in Central Park, in hopes of nursing the city’s hard-hit jazz scene back to life. 5 Things to Do on Memorial Day Weekend 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

There are images of famous jazz musicians, among them Max Roach, Abbey Lincoln and Miles Davis. Black Can Be Even More Beautiful 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

She bought a 27-room house, once used by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and filled it with scores of foster children and visiting jazz musicians. Is Peter Bradley Ready for Round 2 in the Limelight? 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

Harrison was a true-blue jazz musician, and Adjuah — who was born, and first introduced to the listening public as, Christian Scott — seemed destined to become one, too. A Trumpeter Stretches Past the Bounds of Jazz 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

There certainly may be an element of proud boasting: “Oh, this? It’s just my daughter’s tastefully mismatched outfit,” “Admire my toddler son’s taste in jazz,” etc. Instagram, Facebook, and the Perils of “Sharenting” 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

He was a jazz fan from an early age and a devoted listener of the Voice of America’s jazz broadcasts. Giorgio Gomelsky, Impresario Who Gave the Rolling Stones Their Start, Dies at 81 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

This week’s schedule includes hot jazz and swing on Friday; merengue on Tuesday; and the hustle on Thursday. Spare Times for June 27-July 4 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

He was learning his form at the same time that jazz, animation and slapstick comedy were likewise getting their cultural feet under them. What was the source of Krazy Kat’s comic genius? 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

Is there something jazz can do better than any other music? To know Bowie, Kendrick and Gaga, you have to know your jazz: “There is an artisan movement going on in music now just as there is in food” 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

Melvin Gibbs, the jazz and funk bassist who serves as president of Content Creators Coalition, calls them “cooked numbers.” The New York Times sells out artists: Shallow data paints a too-rosy picture of “thriving” creative class in the digital age 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

Ms. Wilson, one of the greatest jazz singers alive, presents herself as a kind of double agent. Music Review: Nancy Wilson Is at Home at the Blue Note 2010-05-11T21:53:00Z

One of the most famous jazz musicians in the world, Louis Armstrong, along with his wife, Lucille, moved into a modest home in Corona, Queens, in New York City, in 1943. 8 Places Across the U.S. That Illuminate Black History 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z

It traces the tributaries of English and folk traditions, the rhythms of jazz and the Beats, the influence of modernism and the Black Arts Movement. A Monumental and Rapturous New Anthology of Black American Poetry 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

He was also one of the first black musicians to hold a staff position at a television network, and one of the most high-profile proponents of teaching jazz at the college level. Clark Terry, Influential Jazz Trumpeter, Dies at 94 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

Just days before his death, he attended a show at a local jazz club, and playfully showed off his new piano and guitar at a party at his studio. Clues to the Mystery of Prince’s Final Days 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Otherwise, performances are jazzed up with video overlays and mirror-image effects, drenched in jewel-tone light or rendered in black-and-white filters, through which you might notice a living-room sofa or the fluttering of window blinds. Live(ish), From Someone’s Room, This … Is American Isolation 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

The entire community had to come together to figure out a way forward, and to open up a broader pathway into jazz. The Decade in Jazz: 10 Definitive Moments 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

“Threads of young composers, and threads of dead composers. And threads of modernist music and threads of free jazz.” Composers Give New Shape to Ornette Coleman’s Jazz 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

From the outset it was retro, full of nostalgia for the jazz age and pre-Code Hollywood. Hugh Hefner in six volumes 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

There are plans for a book that will document every artwork created in the studio, a jazz album culled from music recorded during the sessions and a pop-up Headz in Berlin next spring. A Chinatown Loft Party in the Spirit of Warhol’s Factory 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

But as Salvant has embraced the unruliness of her creativity, she’s realized that the boundaries holding her in place as a virtuoso jazz vocalist were always artificial. Cécile McLorin Salvant’s Album Tackles a Newer Archive: Her Own 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

Raised by his mother in the tough North Oakland neighborhood in California, he experienced jazz as part of a community. Music: For a Team Player, the Solo Moments Are Secondary 2011-04-01T21:46:41Z

Five decades later, Ismaily has become one of music’s most in-demand collaborators, flitting like a mischievous butterfly through genres as diverse as honeyed folk, rambunctious free jazz and spectral meditations sung in Urdu. How Shahzad Ismaily Became Musicians’ Favorite Musician 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z

“The music in musicals is always, you know – musicaaaal,” he says, affecting the tonal equivalent of jazz hands over the phone from his home town of Wellington, New Zealand. Flight of the Conchords the musical is coming, says Jemaine Clements 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s Big Band Holidays concert, featuring the jazz vocalist Samara Joy, will run in the group’s home theater, Dec. 14-18. A Guide to NYC Holiday Events: Live Music, Theater, Lights and More 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

I walked past dozens of live performances: rock, jazz, classical. Rijeka in Croatia: the culture capital that knows how to party 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

As an adjective, “second line” can describe a characteristic beat, an Afro-Caribbean rhythm that runs through New Orleans music, from which it spread into the rest of the world’s jazz, R&B and funk. She Wants to Heal the World Through Second Line 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

"Madeleine understands the importance of jazz not only as an art form but as a means of bringing people together around the world," Carter said in a telephone interview. Albright to be honored for her 'jazz diplomacy' 2012-08-21T23:16:03Z

The trumpet playing junior at Detroit's Cass Technical High School hopes one day to play alongside famous jazz and R&B musicians and be an ambassador for Motown — the sound and the city. Daughter of Motown stars to Detroit students: Find your beat 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

Nora York, a singer and performer who intrigued audiences with bold mashups of jazz, rock and other genres, died on Saturday at her home in Manhattan. Nora York, Singer Who Fused Forms, Dies at 60 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

After a decades-long urban renewal project by the federal and local governments, the Fillmore was reshaped - and gradually jazz clubs have started coming back. SFJazz Center opens, bringing swing to West Coast 2013-01-24T12:01:06Z

Catching the editor of this newspaper discussing the changing nature of journalism on the BBC's Newsnight this week set me reflecting on this jazz series and how invaluable the stimulation from readers has been. Great moments in jazz: Weather Report and the orchestration of fusion 2011-02-25T14:49:29Z

I was trying to do this jazz thing. Real 'Jersey Boy' Frankie Valli to play Broadway 2012-09-21T14:35:15Z

Cocker's triumph with "Up Where We Belong" was prefaced by a Grammy-nominated 1982 performance of "I'm So Glad I'm Standing Here Today" with the jazz unit the Crusaders. Singer Joe Cocker dies at age 70 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

“Most of these styles will be in some way reflected at Ojai, which this year looks like L.A.’s most adventurous jazz festival as well.” Essential Arts & Culture: Ojai's new musical direction, a bangin' Bartók, an innovative arts patron gets her due 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

So he focused increasingly on writing about jazz — he contributed frequently to The New York Times — and, later, about cocktails, an interest he picked up along the way. The Tipsy Diaries: Punch, the Drink of Dickens, Redeemed 2010-10-14T20:36:00Z

“I wouldn’t say no to attending a jazz concert or something like that,” Tiné said, although he added that the app hadn’t enticed him to buy those tickets. France Gave Teenagers $350 for Culture. They’re Buying Comic Books. 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

Another pair of concerts in February will celebrate three other jazz architects: Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton and Charles Mingus, with music direction by Vincent Gardner, the trombonist and composer. Next Jazz at Lincoln Center Season Will Celebrate Wayne Shorter 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z

“Because my mind is open, I don’t want to always be identified as just a jazz drummer,” Mr. Mouzon told Modern Drummer magazine in 1979. Alphonse Mouzon, Jazz and Fusion Drummer, Dies at 68 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

He took up painting and left for Paris, then New York, where he spent a decade in the thrall of the 1950s jazz scene. Yoram Kaniuk, Maverick Israeli Novelist, Dies at 83 2013-06-11T03:08:23Z

These rhapsodic yet tragic shots, accompanied by a recording of the avant-garde jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, are the film’s most personal, spontaneous, original, and inspired elements. A Filmmaker Trying to Break Free from Instagram Modernity 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

The Seattle jazz community is gathering Wednesday at the New Orleans Restaurant to celebrate one of its own — bassist Chuck Metcalf. Community remembers Seattle jazz lion Chuck Metcalf 2012-03-12T20:09:05Z

DeMarco, often utilizing quirky jazz chords, says he wrote many of the songs between touring and thought they likely wouldn’t be recorded. Mac DeMarco addicted to making music, seeks clarity through hard work 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

Unlike Americans, who largely view jazz as a relic, the French host countless festivals and are willing to shell out for tickets. The best jazz clubs in Paris 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

The following two years, Moran topped the DownBeat critics polls for rising star pianist, rising star composer and rising star jazz artist. This Kennedy Center director is making performance art out of jazz. Can he bring fans along? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

For decades, jazz aficionados have worried that the art form is imperilled. My Journey with Jazz 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

They will compete across a range of genres, including jazz, pop, rock and qawwali - traditional Sufi Muslim ballads that are popular in both countries, said Khan. Pakistani and Indian chefs compete on reality TV 2012-01-31T12:35:09Z

The room fell silent for a second, save for the soft jazz percolating from the stereo speakers and a glug of wine being poured. What happens when two immigrants, five liberals and a Trump voter sit down to dinner 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

All of these impulses inform “Source,” a multifaceted mix of jazz, reggae, cumbia, hip-hop and soul. Nubya Garcia, Tapping Into the Past to Make Jazz for a New Generation 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z

Think of jazz as the sound of thinking, as the craving for freedom – from boredom, obviousness, segregation, constraint, earthbound everydayness – rather than the over-organised nostalgic soundtrack to smoky clichés about an impression of cool. Paul Morley showing off ... Polar Bear 2010-03-26T17:08:00Z

She was also a devoted proponent of fellow musicians; in short, the breadth of her impact on jazz — in New York and beyond — is hard to estimate. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

The jazz scene is now way more dynamic than when I was a kid, and they have brought their own thing and are fusing it with the New Orleans heritage.” Back on song: New Orleans 10 years after Katrina 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z

His most recent, "Still On the Road to Freedom," was released in August 2012 and incorporated a range of styles from rock to blues to jazz to funk. Rock guitarist Alvin Lee dies at 68 2013-03-06T22:57:16Z

Had some uncle taken these “kids” out to hear jazz years ago? Jazz Connect & Winter Jazzfest – a New York state of mind | Festival review 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

It was a high price to pay for admission into the boys club of jazz instrumentalists. Sarah Vaughan finally gets the biography she deserves 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

“Anslinger was fascinated with what he called the ‘jazz type,’ and saw himself as making America great again,” Parks said. Billie Holiday’s Story Depends on Who’s Telling It 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

The quiet usually held, as one of the great singers of the last century turned jazz songs and standards into searching, and searing, portraits of life and love gone wrong that cast a shimmering spell. Theater Review: Audra McDonald in ‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill’ 2014-04-14T02:00:01Z

Because of the show’s theme, it was reasonable to expect a meticulous attempt to recreate the recordings of one of the greatest teams in jazz history. Music Review: Rebecca Kilgore Honors Billie Holiday and Lester Young 2010-08-03T20:46:00Z

There's so much life and love and happiness that goes into her music, which I believe is fundamental, to what we do as jazz musicians. The sights and sounds of summer 2011-08-08T19:30:02Z

In the meantime, there is the legacy of a generation of jazz musicians who learned their craft there, many of whom will be on hand at the club’s Sept. 29 farewell party, hosted by Anschell. Tula’s Restaurant and Jazz Club to say goodbye with a final party, after decades of developing local talent 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

As the ’60s came to a close, the revolutionary spirit of the times was so pervasive that it compelled much more from artists, especially in jazz. Lee Morgan’s ‘Live at the Lighthouse’ was a masterpiece that turned out to be a farewell 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

There are few better examples than the Honeymoon Killers – a band whose combination of indie pop, jazz and African influences echoed the pioneering spirit of Talking Heads without ever lapsing into imitation. Sounds of Belgium – day one: a history of Belgian pop in 10 songs 2012-07-02T12:02:00Z

But as in other works of his, the jazz elements here are processed through his acute ear and powerful imagination. A Rare Side-by-Side of a Thrilling Stravinsky 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

“Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook” is the third record he’s made that analyzes Puerto Rican music from the ground up and connects it, with great originality, to new jazz practice. New Music: New Music From Miguel Zen?n and Red Hot Chili Peppers 2011-08-29T22:37:58Z

But these songs, which also draw from jazz, R&B and the soaring ballads of Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber, are easily enjoyed on their own merits. Patriotism on Broadway 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

Music fans can choose from rock, jazz, blues, soul, rap, electronica — and everything in between. In Transit: Music Festival Takes to Prague's Islands 2011-06-19T10:00:17Z

The unexpected death of the pre-eminent trumpeter this fall shocked the jazz community — particularly in New York City, and especially at the Gallery, a club he co-founded over 20 years ago. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Not so with Art Zoyd, the French instrumental group and multimedia collective founded in 1969 that takes seriously its classical structures, its rock impact, its theatrical/narrative opportunities and its jazz wildness. The Year in Boxed Sets, From David Bowie to Weird Al 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

Accompanied by a funky ’30s-style jazz ensemble, Ms., LuPone runs the gamut from ferocious to zany in what amounts to a fiery deconstruction of torch song traditions. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Aug. 1-7 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Some claimed its practitioners lacked technical skills, while others argued it broke too radically with jazz norms to count as a legitimate offshoot. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Immigration Nation’ and ‘Dora and the Lost City of Gold’ 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z

In her late years, Sumac played regular cabaret engagements at the now-defunct Cinegrill and the Vine St. Bar & Grill jazz club, not far from her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On the trail of Yma Sumac: The exotica legend came from Peru, but her career was all Hollywood 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

We need to have jazz on TV and radio. Jazz moves to stay 'relevant' 2012-07-03T07:44:48Z

Then he takes a long drag off his cigarette, grins and shrugs, unworried about recycling an old jazz cliche. The District’s jazz scene is all over the place. Is Luke Stewart holding it together? 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

The work’s connections to jazz are few and fleeting, but you hear them, distantly, in its slow movement. Music Review: Branford Marsalis and Philharmonic in Central Park 2010-07-15T22:45:00Z

But the Kennedy Center is a subscriber-based institution, patronized partly by those who might not follow jazz beyond the institution’s mailings. Music Review: Anthony Braxton at the Kennedy Center 2012-12-17T05:23:04Z

We never play down to people, although the jazz purists might think so. Profile of jazz maestro Herbie Hancock: From the archive, 12 Feb 1975 2013-02-12T07:00:00Z

“The beauty of a labyrinth is that it can do so many things, like a string bass that can fit into a jazz band, a string quartet and then a symphony,” she said. Flower bed, patio table ... labyrinth? Winding paths are a new backyard trend. 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

The most comprehensive jazz festival in the Seattle area, Earshot continues through Nov. 7 with shows at various venues, from the Crocodile to Benaroya Hall, but the Triple Door is the festival's primary stage. Earshot Jazz Festival scores with James Carter and Gretchen Parlato 2010-10-25T23:48:00Z

Billy Paul, a jazz and soul singer best known for the No. 1 hit ballad “Me and Mrs. Jones,” died April 24 at his home in Blackwood, N.J. Billy Paul, singer who found hit with ‘Me and Mrs. Jones,’ dies at 81 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

But fate intervened when a pianist at the music school invited Hicks to see the Oscar Peterson Trio at the famed New York jazz club the Blue Note. Fate has a starring role in 'Keep On Keepin' On' 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

An earlier videotaped interview shows him choking up with emotion when he speaks of Mr. Roach, Mr. Jones, Art Blakey and Phil Seamen, jazz idols who came to recognize him as a peer. Movie Review: ‘Beware of Mr. Baker’ Traces the Rock Drummer Ginger Baker 2012-11-27T13:00:00Z

Mr. Hersch, 56, is a pianist of cultivated taste and erudition; he’s also the sort of jazz musician who brings a lissome elegance to his playing, disinclined to accentuate the effort behind it all. Music Review: Fred Hersch Trio, Live and Recorded, at the Village Vanguard 2012-02-08T22:51:48Z

Think American jazz filtered through a Soviet arranger, sung in a bravura, Kreisleresque idiom, with a Slovenian accent by way of London. Violinist Lana Trotovsek gives radiant performance in Embassy Series

Streets are closed to traffic and given over to wares from nearly 200 different artists, along with performances from the likes of jazz bands and dance crews. A Southern Town That’s Been Holding On to Its Charm, for More Than a Century 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

But it also marks another milestone: Ledisi’s return to her roots as a soul and jazz singer who in the late ’90s sold her CDs directly to her fans after shows or in record stores. Nina Simone Saved Ledisi’s Life. Now She’s Paying Tribute on an Album. 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett will perform one of the jazz standards that featured on their US number one album, Cheek to Cheek. Rihanna and Smith due at Grammys 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z

An open-hearted paean to jazz, in its many forms, offers a variant, to the effect that people who do not consider jazz to be art music are missing something profound. 2010-02-15T16:59:00Z

Within a few years, House was making up for lost time, playing major jazz festivals around the world and recording far more material than he ever did in the 1930s and ’40s. Son House Inspires a Rochester Blues Festival 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

With an approach to improvisation that was garrulous and uninhibited but firmly grounded in intellect and technique, Mr. Rivers was among the leading figures in the postwar jazz avant-garde. Sam Rivers, Jazz Musician, Dies at 88 2011-12-28T00:24:59Z

Jack Stewart, a New Orleans jazz historian, said preservationists weren't given advance notice that the city planned to tear down the house. New Orleans jazz landmark razed in rebuilding push 2011-01-07T11:01:04Z

It takes what Motley learned about figure painting, color and composition, pushes that through an Expressionist filter, and sets it to a sinuous, thumping jazz score. A Lesser-Known Modernism Inspired by African-American Culture 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

And “Barry” isn’t alone; as if theater weren’t already mocked enough for its hysteria and jazz hands, it now seems to be pop culture’s punching bag. Is Theater Ridiculous? Movies, TV and Books Seem to Think So 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

It helps people in his line of work to hold a base-line dogmatic assumption about culture, and his is that jazz culture has no laurels to rest on. Sample Sale: Growing a Jazz Audience 2010-12-03T19:22:00Z

Aboriginal Music Society The percussionist and bassist Juma Sultan is a link between free jazz and Jimi Hendrix, and a puzzle piece in the history of musicians’ cooperatives. Playlist: Music of Aboriginal Music Society and Julius Hemphill 2011-11-04T20:31:27Z

I was publishing the music list at Macmillan, and kept trying to persuade him to share his encyclopedic knowledge of jazz records on the page as well as the airwaves. All that jazz 2012-11-14T14:42:00Z

Jay-Z said he would join some of the world's top musical artists on the soundtrack which would bring modern "jazz age" energy to the latest film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of 1920s America. Jay-Z to put modern jazz twist on Gatsby soundtrack 2013-03-15T12:32:58Z

Now organizers are adding a new element: live jazz. At a Roman Museum, Jazz Joins the Mix 2010-05-11T10:00:00Z

A Grammy award-winning clarinettist, saxophonist and composer, he blurred the lines between classical and popular music, recording more than 40 albums which journeyed between dancehall, samba, bossa nova, jazz and orchestral music. Paulo Moura obituary 2010-07-19T16:58:00Z

It's not news that some white blues, jazz, rock and hip-hop musicians have been more readily embraced by mainstream audiences and the popular press than their black counterparts. Elvis Rocks. But He's Not the First 2010-03-12T14:25:00Z

I’m told there’s a whole other act to follow and, plus, there’s a cool jazz bar around the corner that we’re going to after, so “Come on, Seb,” get it together. Don’t Sleep on Tunis, a City That’s More Awake Than Ever Before 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, “Rebel Ruler,” “Diaspora,” “The Emancipation Procrastination” Adjuah’s new trilogy finds him blowing perfumed fog from his trumpet — the kind that obscures the lines separating jazz, trap and techno. Perspective | Best music of 2017: Cardi B paints the world ‘Bodak Yellow’ 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

He plans to have jazz nights at Tropicalia when it reopens. Jazz venues have been hit particularly hard by the pandemic. They are hoping the worst is over. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

En route, the elegant suits were swapped for a garish wardrobe of suede, leather, jerkins and scarves, the respectful world of jazz clubs for noisy rock venues. The muse who changed Miles 2010-09-04T23:05:00Z

It’s a recital, and the kind of record most serious jazz pianists get around to at some point. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-09-05T21:33:00Z

He recruited Sinatra, Dionne Warwick and other popular singers to help support the jazz artists. George Wein, Newport Jazz Festival co-founder, dies at 95 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

Born in Bishopbriggs, Scotland, Bruce initially courted a career as a cellist, but left the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama as a teenager to pursue his interest in jazz. Jack Bruce, Cream bassist, dies at 71 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

“And she was a terrific jazz singer. She taught Anne how to play the ukulele,” says Brooks. 'Love and free food': Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner share the secrets of their 70-year friendship 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Musical benefit for Washington Hall: Historic Seattle hosts jazz performances by the Holden Family to benefit restoration of the historic 1908 hall, 7:30 p.m. Mammoth tusk, shopping and jazz | Community Corner 2014-03-28T19:39:49Z

He attended St. Mary’s College of California, where he and other students formed a popular jazz combo, The Five Red Peppers. Romantic Crooner Tony Martin Dies at 98 2012-07-30T20:54:56Z

Mr. Allison began taking piano lessons at 5 and grew up listening to jazz and blues records on jukeboxes. Mose Allison, who sang the blues with whimsy and a twist of jazz, dies at 89 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

There was a modesty in his playing that came from his jazz learning. How Rolling Stones' Charlie Watts infused one of the greatest rock 'n' roll bands with a little jazz 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

Put on some soothing jazz or a song that makes you feel warm inside. A 1-2-3 guide to building the perfect charcuterie board 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

But “Ernestine Anderson Swings the Penthouse” is a document of local jazz history, courtesy of longtime radio man Jim Wilke, whose Penthouse recordings from the era are a gift that keeps giving. You can’t go to live concerts. But you can listen to these 6 essential Seattle live albums 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

Besides bringing in more black artists, Mr. Krasnow was instrumental in securing a distribution deal with the jazz and classical label ECM, bringing some highbrow cachet. Bob Krasnow, Revitalizer of Elektra Records, Dies at 82 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

He was soon in demand as an accompanist, working with leading jazz musicians like the saxophonists Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young. Horace Silver, 85, Master of Earthy Jazz, Is Dead 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

Some of the storied “caves” are still around and are an atmospheric place to start a jazz tour. The best jazz clubs in Paris 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

When they started the project, Jefferson called an uncle who’s a jazz saxophonist to ask — really, what made Armstrong so special? Secret No More: Louis Armstrong Center Amplifies Satchmo’s Vision 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z

I’ve found that there is a cut off point in jazz history — it’s driven by the introduction of high fidelity audio recording in the late 1950s. To know Bowie, Kendrick and Gaga, you have to know your jazz: “There is an artisan movement going on in music now just as there is in food” 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

Expert, first-class jazz tenor sax, the sound of a master . A Quest to Rename the Williamsburg Bridge for Sonny Rollins 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

Tangentially, “Dust” is a pop album, but one with detours through smooth jazz, broken beats, multilingual dance-pop, queasy ambience, twitchy funk and scrambled radio signals. Laurel Halo Shakes Up Her Sound After Partnering With a Humanoid Pop Star 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

But naysayers become converts when they taste okra as it’s coddled here: cubed, seasoned with mustard seeds, cumin seeds and half a dozen other jazz notes, and fried to a tender crunch. Review | Order from these three restaurants, and watch vegetables steal the show 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

And Mr. Ho — a prolific author, performer, jazz musician and opera composer, who conceived “She-Wolf” — has a lot to be proud of. Theater Review: ‘Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon!,’ at LaMaMa 2013-05-21T21:56:53Z

Myers’s words and art play together, improvising, working in syncopation like jazz. The best children’s books for June 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

On Nov. 15, it will be shown at a benefit for the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute and for Jazz at Lincoln Center; Mr. Ammon was the chairman of the jazz organization. In Hamptons, Ammon Twins Put Horror in Perspective 2012-11-14T22:17:45Z

Last week's edition ended with Tom Waits's Warm Beer, Cold Women, with Cullum describing Waits as being "as influenced by jazz as he is by Jack Kerouac and Charles Bukowski". Radio head: Jamie Cullum 2010-09-08T08:01:00Z

Picking up the mantle of midcentury greats like Bud Powell, Barry Harris and Cedar Walton, he espouses the ideal of jazz as America’s classical music, whether he’s performing standards or his own neo-traditionalist compositions. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

“The music that I heard from the time I was born was jazz.” Joey DeFrancesco, Reigning King of the Jazz Organ, Dies at 51 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

So were the excerpts from Ms. Robinson’s 1983 jazz piece “Lush Life.” Dance Review: Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble at Lincoln Center 2012-08-13T22:42:52Z

Mr. Kline is also a senior partner at Michael Kline Artists, a management and booking agency for jazz artists, and several from the company’s roster will be performing at the festival. | Cape May: Jazz Celebration in Cape May Will Have New Orleans Flavor 2012-10-27T04:03:04Z

At Baby’s All Right, Mr. Nathan will be performing cuts from his latest album, “Toon Time Raw!,” a collaborative work with the enigmatic jazz group Easy Feelings Unlimited. Pop & Rock Listings for Aug. 26-Sept. 1 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Which was weird because you don't instantly think Austria when you think of jazz. Hot jazz on a cold mountain: a festival on Austria's ski slopes 2013-01-17T11:11:00Z

And jazz, let me tell you what happened. Music: Under Peskanov, Bargemusic Keeps Evolving 2010-05-20T22:17:00Z

And when the city raised the price of police permits for street parades, affecting jazz funerals and other community events, the foundation helped pay for them. Jazz Fest at 50: The Stubbornness and Joy of New Orleans 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

Among the other highlights are Sugar Hill, Strivers Row and sites associated with the birth of jazz. Spare Times for July 17-23 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

By “jazz strings chamber ensemble,” Balakrishnan not only means a group literally playing jazz, but also functioning as a mutable collective that can play everything from Haydn to Hendrix to Hubbard. Turtle Island Quartet brings its eclectic tastes and passion for discovery to Seattle 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

He soon became the main recording engineer for the independent jazz label, using innovative state-of-the-art recording techniques that helped turn the label into a major force on the modern jazz scene. Rudy Van Gelder, audio engineer who helped shape venerated jazz recordings, dies at 91 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

"I'm thrilled! This is a match made in heaven. Get ready for a love riot in late night," the jazz artist.  Stephen Colbert introduces Jon Batiste as 'Late Show' bandleader 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Amid this conflict, Keller unearths what may be the roots of formal jazz education in America and its legacy in Seattle. A look back at Seattle’s black musicians’ union 2014-01-02T18:40:56Z

Storied Trove of 1930s Jazz Is Acquired by Museum For decades jazz cognoscenti have talked reverently of “the Savory Collection.” National Jazz Museum Acquires Savory Collection 2010-08-16T19:08:00Z

The steak tartare is made from a yellow split-pea creation colored with beet juice and jazzed up with cornichon slices, shallots, capers, mustard. Where to find the best vegan dining in Manhattan 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

By the early 1960s, flutes were almost as common as saxophones in jazz ensembles. Sam Most, Who Helped Bring the Flute Into the Jazz Mainstream, Dies at 82 2013-06-23T02:12:54Z

Paul Bley, an obdurate and original pianist who began his career playing bebop and eventually became a major force in experimental jazz, died on Sunday at his home in Stuart, Fla. He was 83. Paul Bley, Adventurous Jazz Pianist, Dies at 83 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

Whatever nooks and crannies they missed were usually occupied by the different groups of musicians, including a jazz trio and an a cappella quartet performing Mr. Zorn’s compositions. The Best Art of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

Then this year, the director of the Proms, Roger Wright, called Guy to ask if he had a jazz piece suitable for the Britten Sinfonia. Django Reinhardt: music, mischief and magic 2012-08-19T21:00:00Z

If I was in college and someone tried to say that something like "Come Away With Me" was a jazz record, I would have been like, "No, it's not!" "Come Away With Me" at 20: Norah Jones reflects on "hopeful, romantic" record but won't call it jazz 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z

A frequent face in the Slope Lounge audience is Darcy James Argue, a bandleader whose Secret Society — a large ensemble with a dark-hued, rock-inflected sound — is now renowned in the jazz world. ‘They’re Doing It Out of Love’: The Big Band Rises Again 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z

The language they shared was not only jazz, though. BalletNext and Abraham.In.Motion Experiment With Jazz 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

A few years later, he started the Punch Brothers, with the goal of infusing bluegrass’s country craftsmanship with classical and jazz techniques. The Endless Curiosity of Chris Thile 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

The jazz musician — such as Coltrane blowing 14 hours — speaks about honing one’s chops. Five Poets That Yusef Komunyakaa Returns to Again and Again 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

“So now you have the jazz and the funk coming together,” Bell said. Kool & the Gang Get the Dance Floor Moving. Have They Gotten Their Due? 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z

This month, we focus on Ornette Coleman, the iconoclastic saxophonist and bandleader whose style prioritized atonal chords over traditional rhythm and harmony, which helped establish the subgenre of free jazz in the late 1950s. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Ornette Coleman 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

Themes with a modal, Middle Eastern accent often weave through sharp-edged, modernist harmonies; and the influences of jazz, pop and Indian music often crop up as well. CD Review: Avner Dorman: Concertos 2010-05-13T14:42:00Z

“I think whatever music, whether it’s jazz or metal or Sufi music or ambient music or electronic music, there’s a certain level of,” he paused to find the right words. Dan Weiss’s Starebaby Mines the Loud Ground Where Jazz and Metal Meet 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

The evening began with “3 Epitaphs,” set to early jazz music performed with verve by the Asphalt Orchestra. Dance Review: Celebrating Paul Taylor at Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2010-08-08T22:44:00Z

The exhibit will include Burgundy's jazz flute, a whip used in a fight scene between rival news teams and commentary clips from Ferrell. 'Anchorman' Ron Burgundy returns - in a museum 2013-06-04T19:51:43Z

Jamal is one of the few jazz musicians to have had chart hits, but he's also a a true original – and he plays and writes as well in his eighth decade as he ever did. 2013 jazz and world preview: don't miss Fanfare Ciocarlia's frantic dance party and new jazz weekender Love Supreme 2012-12-30T19:20:01Z

With 11 venues, the Ballard Jazz Walk is one of the joys of the Seattle jazz calendar, as the community saunters down the sidewalk, darting in and out of clubs like it was Mardi Gras. Ballard Jazz Festival 2012 showcases regional, national talent 2012-04-12T20:16:13Z

Even songs such as You Are the Sunshine of My Life or Isn't She Lovely have certain hallmarks that you associate with jazz standards. Stevie Wonder: jammin' with the jazz set 2010-06-17T21:44:00Z

On the studio versions of “Primrose” songs, Walker recorded with a band of miraculously practiced Chicago jazz players. Ryley Walker explores a pastoral past with mesmerizing folk set at the Echo 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

Gregory Porter’s new album, “Take it to the Alley,” debuted at No. 1 on the jazz charts. Catch Gregory Porter at the Moore on June 17 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gioia, a lifelong jazz fan, is a lucid, accessible poet, who, for the purposes of this project, used rhyming couplets. Review: ‘Sung With Words,’ a Collaboration by a Pianist and a Poet 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

Howard Rumsey, a bass player who turned a down-at-the-heels sailors’ hangout in Hermosa Beach, Calif., into ground zero for West Coast jazz, died July 15 in Newport Beach, Calif. He was 97. Howard Rumsey, bass player who built a center of West Coast jazz, dies at 97 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

Edward was jazzed up that first afternoon because some football team he liked had just won a game. On boys and balls: How I learned to stop hating sports 2014-05-12T23:00:00Z

Mr. Goldberg, a pianist, plays straight-ahead jazz with tight command; his notes almost always seem to be shot with a glint of light. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

With hip-hop momentum and attitude, jazz pianist Glasper has catapulted himself into the popular arena with an original, hard-hitting style. Bumbershoot daily highlights 2013-08-29T20:39:56Z

We could be talking about the interpenetration of jazz and soul music, and George would mention that the bassist Milt Hinton played on “Mr. Lee,” a late-fifties hit by the Bobbettes. Let’s Take It to the Page 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

If you want to know just how far jazz has slipped in the hierarchy of pop music, just look the line-up for next year’s New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. ArtsBeat Blog: New Orleans Jazz Festival Announces 2012 Lineup 2011-12-14T06:00:56Z

"As a kid, I had an older brother who listened to free jazz," she says. Kim Gordon's fresh start 2013-09-19T16:18:45Z

This pianist’s trio is one of contemporary jazz’s proven entities: They’ve got a distinctive, unified polyrhythmic language, fueled by clean energy but full of magnetism and purpose. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

By the time he entered Northeastern University in Boston, he was beginning to think seriously about a career in jazz. George Wein, Jazz Festival Trailblazer, Is Dead at 95 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

As for making young William “a man,” Higgins means that he will introduce him to jazz, a meaning that I suspect has never before been imputed to that phrase in human history. ‘Ted Lasso’ Season 3, Episode 6 Recap: Dutch Treat 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

“It would be an accounting nightmare for us,” said the programming director for one of the city’s major jazz clubs, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he feared reprisals from the union. Jazz Musicians Campaign for Pensions 2011-12-12T23:19:31Z

But other African-American jazz musicians weren’t getting book deals in the mid-twentieth century, either, unless they were virtuosos or bandleaders. Giving a Great Jazz Storyteller His Due 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

After his parents, Albert and Lottie, divorced, he recalled, he spent much of his childhood shuttling between San Antonio, where his mother stayed, and Columbus, Ohio, where his father, a jazz pianist, resettled. Al Freeman Jr., Actor Prominent in Civil Rights Era, Dies at 78 2012-08-15T04:14:02Z

There’s Chloé Arnold’s showstopping choreography at least, a dazzling combination of tap, hip-hop and jazz performed by a massive ensemble of background singers and dancers. ‘Spirited’ Review: A Whole Lot of Humbug 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

Asking “what is a Fantastic Fest movie?” is a bit like asking “what is jazz?” Fantastic Fest 2016: cannibals, floating heads and Dolph Lundgren 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

In the solo section, he improvised sliding vocal lines with wild, baroque decorations, shooting between registers and tempos, at one point recalling the mock male-female "conversations" of jazz musician Clark Terry's "Mumbles" routines. Iran's Namjoo ignites a thrilling musical ride 2011-02-27T02:17:04Z

The program for the new series in the Veterans Room, which is being called the Artist’s Studio Series and is being selected by the jazz musician Jason Moran, will be announced later. Armory's 2016 Season Includes Andriessen Premiere 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

Mr. Batiste shares the Marsalis family trait of jazz evangelism: He’s an artistic director at large at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, for which he’ll play a fall benefit on Oct. Jon Batiste Will Lead ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Band in a Style He Sees Fit 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

The rhythmic nuance of bebop, the melodically complex jazz form that came of age during World War II and is best personified by alto saxophonist Charlie Parker, also has its appeal. In Victor Provost’s hands, the steel pan becomes a mesmerizing ride 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

The rub is that it never will, unless there is an understanding that jazz's economic status isn't a hideous reflection of poor aesthetic health. 2009-12-10T17:54:00Z

“My father was fully European, living in an African country — because, you know, Cuba’s basically an African country — and also falling in love with jazz,” O’Farrill said. 75 Years Ago, Latin Jazz Was Born. Its Offspring Are Going Strong. 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z

He quickly found himself in demand at a time when British directors looked to jazz and pop music to create a cool image for their films. John Barry Dies at 77; Composed for Bond Films 2011-02-01T06:39:31Z

Through him, jazz might even find new devotees. Steps to heaven 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

After Schuller stepped down in 1996, Mr. Baker became the sole leader of the ensemble, which the New Yorker called “the best jazz repertory band in the country.” David Baker, jazz scholar, composer and conductor, dies at 84 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

International de Jazz de Montréal It’s possible to be disappointed by the Montreal Jazz Festival only if you expect jazz to be the sole musical bill of fare. O Canada: The Cool Pleasures of the Montreal Jazz Festival 2013-06-15T12:00:35Z

The idea of a strain of modern jazz that’s conversant with hip-hop — as a matter of course, rather than calculation — holds sway over much of this music. Review: ‘Revive Music’ Marries Jazz and Hip-Hop 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

The presence of jazz players has led to a mistaken characterization of “Blackstar” as a jazz record, which it isn’t. ‪The Beautiful Meaninglessness of David Bowie 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z

On his solo albums, Mr. Morrison sang flirtations, dance invitations, philosophy and social commentary in tunes that drew on funk, ballads, jazz, blues, rock, reggae and Latin styles. Junie Morrison, a Funk Mastermind, Dies at 62 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

Long after he was a force on the rhythm and blues charts, Mr. Otis was a familiar presence at blues and even jazz festivals. Johnny Otis, Rhythm and Blues Musician, Dies at 90 2012-01-20T01:42:36Z

It’s opera, museums, restaurants, uptown, downtown, jazz, Broadway, symphony, gospel, Central Park, baseball. 2009-12-21T05:00:00Z

There’s a small cult of late-period partiality in jazz: listeners who savor the poignancy of a great artist in decline. Playlist: New Albums: Neil Young, Thelonious Monk and Shelby Lynne 2013-12-06T21:53:11Z

The fight now seems silly — jazz has managed to accommodate many styles and genres — but it can still raise ruffles in the stuffier or more progressive quarters. This Kennedy Center director is making performance art out of jazz. Can he bring fans along? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

Free jazz had become a movement, but it wasn’t just radicals who were experimenting with it. Ornette Coleman’s music polarized jazz, then became part of its DNA 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Around the periphery of the room, jazz singers, piano players and Broadway performers were stationed, ready. There’s No Seder Like a Showbiz Seder 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

Now a Latvian jazz group is paying musical homage to the artist. A wide-ranging musical homage to Mark Rothko’s paintings 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Phillips also played jazz, performing in clubs and recital halls. Harvey Phillips, a Titan of the Tuba, Dies at 80 2010-10-24T04:19:00Z

But he developed a proficiency with electronics and early home-recording devices along with a love of jazz. Rudy Van Gelder, audio engineer who helped shape venerated jazz recordings, dies at 91 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

If was an excursion into jazz, there remained something left unsaid that arose from the pain of war in a city proud but still deeply, perhaps irrevocably, wounded. Amira Medunjanin, the Balkan Billie Holiday 2013-01-20T06:30:00Z

That year, he also received the Grammy for best jazz vocal performance by a male artist, for his version of Dave Brubeck’s “Blue Rondo à la Turk,” from the same album. Al Jarreau, Singer Who Spanned Jazz, Pop and R&B Worlds, Dies at 76 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

Cohen teaches a choro workshop every spring for Centrum, the nonprofit arts organization that presents the jazz festival, and her set with Gonçalves will include more samples of that sparkling style. Heading to Jazz Port Townsend? Be sure to catch top-tier clarinetist Anat Cohen 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

This document of their engagement at the renowned jazz club in Hermosa Beach includes Morgan famously telling his audience that he wouldn’t play any of his older hits or take any requests. Lee Morgan’s ‘Live at the Lighthouse’ was a masterpiece that turned out to be a farewell 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

Adds Hindman, herself a jazz fan whose father played in a big band, "I think he was a good man who loved music." Auctioning Chicago history: DJ Dick Buckley's collection 2011-02-14T14:51:00Z

Every time I go into a record store, I go right to the T section in jazz and see if they have any. | Mayer Hawthorne: Mayer Hawthorne Faves: Barbara Mason, 3 Sounds, Black Opera 2011-10-09T03:24:56Z

And that blend of opportunities doesn’t indicate a drought; it suggests that the tradition of jazz apprenticeship is thriving again, albeit in different forms. Pop: Jazz and Its Changing Apprenticeship Systems 2012-07-20T17:21:28Z

He has decided, however, that jazz must become international in the sense that it must be made to portray people and places generally considered incompatible with jazz. From the Observer archive, 29 November 1959: how to take pizzazz out of jazz 2012-11-24T00:05:25Z

When Germans called to interview her husband, Lore would prohibit Martin from speaking to them; she even tried to prevent her son from visiting Germany on tour with his jazz band. W. G. Sebald and the Emigrants 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

He’s not a jazz singer, stylizing a song or adding showy improvisatory flourishes. Music Review: Sometimes Pop Songs Double as Prayers 2011-06-26T21:41:58Z

He became interested in jazz at an early age — he played trumpet, although by his own account not well — while developing a parallel passion for sound technology. Rudy Van Gelder, 91, Audio Engineer Who Helped Define Jazz Sound on Records, Dies 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Apart from Ms. Horn’s set, you were best served on that front at Zinc Bar, the only bona fide jazz club among the festival stages. Review: A Jazzfest Marathon Where Voices Lead the Way to Resistance and Renewal 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

From an early age, he accompanied his father to jazz performances by Basie, Duke Ellington and Chick Webb, and he never lost the excitement he felt when the bands began to play. Buddy DeFranco, jazz clarinetist whose career lasted more than 70 years, dies at 91 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z

It was just dance music, tangos, waltzes, only a little bit of jazz. Piano legend Martial Solal on jazz, France and Godard 2010-05-20T21:00:00Z

For 27 years, Anderson owned and operated the New Orleans Creole Restaurant, in Pioneer Square, hosting jazz, blues and other American roots music. 'Celebration of Life' for club owner Gaye Anderson 2012-09-20T20:50:09Z

SAT Paris on the Plaza, swing-dancing lesson, crêpe vendor, jazz trio, 3 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-07-25T21:31:58Z

And then, as time passes, and more jazz artists get acclimated to his concepts, he brings that other realm into jazz. Eddie Palmieri Ties Together Musical Genres 2012-12-13T22:49:44Z

At around that time, Ngqawana moved to Johannesburg, where there were opportunities to work with a new crop of jazz musicians as well as elder statesmen such as the trumpeter Hugh Masekela. Zim Ngqawana obituary 2011-07-06T17:32:38Z

US chat show host and VH1 presenter Bobby Rivers said on Twitter: "Great jazz singer, handsome actor." 'Bronze Buckeroo' Western star dies 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

Lopez Ochoa's invention was especially lively in unison passages where the six dancers zipped through a catalog of dips, flutters, ripples, arm-swings — a veritable semaphore of moves, with bit of jazz snap to it. Review: Here there be monsters ? of vital interest to dance fans, thanks to Whim W'Him 2011-01-15T17:57:04Z

The longtime residence of the famed jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader, it is a midcentury interior design treasure hidden behind a modest brick exterior. Secret No More: Louis Armstrong Center Amplifies Satchmo’s Vision 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z

Ms. Witkowski will infuse a selection of Chopin’s nocturnes and preludes with improvisations inspired by jazz and Brazilian rhythms. Spare Times for Dec. 5-Dec. 11 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Priester talks about how he wants people to recognize and respect the miracle of improvised jazz music, which he wants to rename “spontaneous composition,” a phrase he believes better captures the skill involved in soloing. Seattle’s Julian Priester helped create jazz as we know it. Now, he’s focusing on teaching the art of listening 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

If jazz’s artists had more control over their industry, he argued, genre divisions would matter a lot less. The Decade in Jazz: 10 Definitive Moments 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

But Mr. Washington plants his music in somewhat different soil, pulling rhythms from the Caribbean and Los Angeles’s fusion-driven jazz scene of the 1970s and ’80s, as well as the city’s more Afrocentric exponents. Kamasi Washington, Still in an Epic Mind-Set on ‘Heaven and Earth’ 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

Talking heads include noted jazz critics such as Gary Giddins, and even Ross herself. TV highlights – 10/05/2013 2013-05-10T05:59:01Z

The sound that developed was based on the jazz training but also blended other genres: hip-hop, blues, rock and soul. Chicago News Cooperative: Kids These Days: A Group With a Sound if Not a Genre 2011-07-31T02:45:26Z

At the moment this sentence is being written, Goldblum is currently in the midst of touring behind his first jazz album. Jeff Goldblum’s a movie star, jazz pianist and an inescapable meme. What’s behind his enduring appeal? 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Coryell, who lived in Orlando, was performing at the Iridium jazz club on the weekend of his death. Larry Coryell, dazzling guitarist who brought rock energy to jazz, dies at 73 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

“It was very, very, very loose,” Mr. Glasper said, “and very jazz in that way.” Music: Robert Glasper Experiment to Release ?Black Radio? 2012-02-24T20:30:08Z

The new iterations featured an expanded repertoire that included adaptations of jazz standards, folk songs, Renaissance pieces, pop music and original compositions. Ward Swingle, musician who made Bach swing, dies at 87 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

Why was this Tokyo native dabbling wistfully in country and bluegrass, lullabies and Looney Tunes jazz? Perspective | The best old albums that we discovered in 2017 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

It's set in a fascinating time, with loads of resonance today – not just hip-hop/jazz princes, but mistrust of immigrants, racism, hunger, poverty and the rise of the right. Dancing on the Edge; The Year of Making Love – TV review 2013-02-05T07:00:11Z

Spike Lee explored the problem of commercialism, with its racial implications, in “Mo’ Better Blues,” which starred Denzel Washington as a jazz trumpeter who fights exploitation by white club owners. Bill Lee, Jazz Bassist and Composer, Is Dead at 94 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

Thus began her quiet effort to elevate Bailey's profile in the modern jazz world, a push the Idaho Legislature hopes to assist. Idaho tribe touts 'Mrs. Swing's' Indian roots 2012-03-15T10:32:08Z

The group built an enduring fan base by taking its subdued bluesy brand of classically influenced jazz to colleges. Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck dead at 91 2012-12-05T18:42:23Z

A Jazz Host Remembered as Inspiration Marian McPartland, who died on Tuesday at 95, was an erudite jazz pianist whose career stretched back to the heyday of 52nd Street. Norah Jones Remembers the Radio Host Marian McPartland 2013-08-23T20:52:38Z

She performs occasionally with a jazz band, and in a few weeks will sing at Jazz Fest in New Orleans. 'I'm not a quirky 17-year old any more': what Arrested Development's Alia Shawkat did next 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

Over the last decade, its fraternal order of contributors — the pianist Ethan Iverson, the bassist Reid Anderson and the drummer David King — have held fast, patiently refining their brand of superhero jazz. Music Review: Together for 10 Years and Still Totally Committed 2010-09-17T20:08:00Z

I want to bring out the excitement of the music, the transgressive nature of jazz, because it’s always been a transgressive type of music. To know Bowie, Kendrick and Gaga, you have to know your jazz: “There is an artisan movement going on in music now just as there is in food” 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

After the war, he moved to the San Francisco area and devoted himself to the guitar, and to jazz. Bill Tapia, Ukulele Virtuoso, Dies at 103 2011-12-12T05:57:16Z

Plenty of groups do that, and not just in the region of jazz. Music Review: Matt Wilson’s Christmas Tree-O at Jazz Standard 2012-12-20T23:14:20Z

In songs that flaunt the complexity and dissonance of prog-rock and the bitter angularity of post-punk — while stirring in ideas from jazz, classical music, funk, salsa and flamenco — loathsome characters do odious things. Best Albums of 2022 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

As it evolved, jazz remained a resistance music precisely because it was the sound of Black Americans building something together, in the face of repression. Jazz Has Always Been Protest Music. Can It Meet This Moment? 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

But even though she sang jazz and has African roots, she’s clearly Spanish in the way she feels music and life. A Singer From Everywhere Arrives Here 2010-10-21T21:15:00Z

The signs were all around us: the knotty, urbane films of Spike Lee; the punkish bravado of Fishbone; all the artsy, middle-class kids exploring identities that weren’t beholden to readymade signifiers like “Africa and jazz.” No Compromises 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

In Cuba, there are no programs that offer a formal jazz education, and government-sanctioned performing opportunities are scarce. A New Vanguard of Women in Cuban Jazz 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

"I don't really see what I do as jazz at all," Garbarek told me recently. London jazz festival 2012: Where has Jan Garbarek gone? I miss him 2012-11-14T17:21:38Z

At night he reaches out to his old high school jazz band mates for clues about what happened to his ex-girlfriend, the mother of the child. New Books by Sadie Jones, Laurent Binet and More 2012-05-30T21:07:15Z

The band drew on free jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman’s influence, plus Coltrane’s own studies of Indian and West African classical musics, and helped redefine the jazz combo as a breathing, unified body. In 1960, John Coltrane went on one last tour with Miles Davis. European audiences weren’t prepared for what he would play.

Given your jazz background, was it a bit of a comedown when you joined the Stones? Charlie Watts: 'Glastonbury? I don't want to do it' 2013-04-04T14:00:00Z

Patrick Jarenwattananon of NPR’s jazz blog remarked on Twitter that a third of the bandleaders in this festival are around 30 or younger. ArtsBeat: At Newport, Rain Rules the Day 2011-08-07T22:20:30Z

The novel was almost pastoral in its tracing of the seasons, with riffs on jazz, painting and spectacular moths. Nadeem Aslam: a life in writing 2013-01-26T10:00:03Z

The alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins and his quartet make bristling, physical music, both leaning into and pulling against the swing rhythm that has historically been the backbone of jazz. On ‘The 7th Hand,’ Immanuel Wilkins Sees Jazz as an Escape Pod 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

"She's the greatest living female jazz singer," he says at one point, then lowers his eyes. Amy and me 2012-06-25T19:00:04Z

“Blues for Good Friday,” with spirituals, gospel songs and jazz; the Theodicy Jazz Sextet. In the Air: Flowers, Parades and Easter in New York 2010-03-25T20:42:00Z

Given that legacy, he added, what’s the point of kicking jazz around? Jazz’s Year of Complaint, Citing ‘Whiplash’ and The New Yorker 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

The tables, draped in white, are spaced far apart and illuminated by candles; the terrace is warmed by gas lamps; jazz wafts gently through the place. 36 Hours in Bogot?, Colombia 2010-07-02T08:30:00Z

The original compositions reflect both a firm foothold in modern jazz and a poplike elevation of melody. Critic’s Notebook: Jeff Ballard and Other Jazz Drummers Step Out Front 2014-02-05T23:02:56Z

Seda said he's jazzed to be a part of a series that chronicles an important part of America's history. Seda reunites with Simon for Season 2 of 'Treme' 2011-03-23T15:57:08Z

As a youth he sang in church, as well as with street-corner harmony groups and local jazz bands. Al Jarreau, Singer Who Spanned Jazz, Pop and R&B Worlds, Dies at 76 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

“Any music that’s happened since Bach, even jazz, to me is unthinkable without him,” Mr. Gardiner said. A Bach Portrait, Heading to Germany, Gets Musical Send-Off 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

The interaction between the Auditorium and the jazz clubs looks particularly intriguing. Festival to celebrate Miles Davis 2011-01-12T06:00:00Z

The Ensemble was avant-garde, free jazz, atonal music, completely opposite from western music. "Funky Drummer" Clyde Stubblefield, keeper of James Brown's beat, never truly got his due 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

Unlikely cross-generational collaborations bore rich fruit in other realms of the jazz world this year, too. For Jazz Musicians in 2021, Two Was the Magic Number 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

It was the SSO which first established the link between jazz bands and the English aristocracy that lies at the heart of this drama. Dancing on the Edge: episode one 2013-02-04T22:30:01Z

The onetime hunter’s lodge, founded in 1827, is now a beautifully designed hotel with 16 rooms and two suites, a summer patio hosting jazz evenings, and free breakfast and parking. 36 Hours in Zagreb, Croatia 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

With “Blue Light,” Wilson redefined the parameters for jazz vocalists, reaching beyond the Great American Songbook of yore to rock, blues and country roots, even tossing in pedal steel guitar. Week Ahead: Maritime Festival, Cinco de Mayo, Cassandra Wilson 2014-04-30T21:25:24Z

By day, she helps to build ships in the Naval Yard, and at night, she dons a sparkling dress to sing at jazz clubs, yearning for a big break. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘How High the Moon’ 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z

In a way, his career was one long, subliminal jazz education class. What a viral cover of Adele’s ‘Hello’ means for go-go 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

Bryars' eloquent score has an overriding melancholic quality with an effortless flow between onstage jazz and the more symphonic style of the pit band. In 'Marilyn Forever,' Monroe yearns to be merely herself 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

“Party People” fuses hip-hop, salsa, and jazz to probe the legacy of the Black Panthers and the Puerto Rican Young Lords; it served as a collective counterpoint to Schenkkan’s White House-centered take on the sixties. American Playwrights Try to Reinvent the History Play 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

The diverse and eclectic lineup truly bore the fruits of inclusive programming, with sprawling fusionist ensemble Khu.éex’ melding Native American song, dance and spoken word with funk, rock and jazz. Hometown heroes Death Cab for Cutie punctuate Paramount Theatre’s unexpectedly political 90th birthday bash 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

Fusing song, poetry, sketches, jazz, dance and theatre, cabaret demolished boundaries between high and low culture, artists and audience. Come to the Cabaret 2013-02-28T17:53:53Z

Overall had challenges throughout college, while he was studying jazz performance; he couldn’t sleep and had bouts of what he called “super high energy.” Kassa Overall Knows Artists Feel Pressure. His New Album Explores It. 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

In 1970, he founded the Fairview Baptist Church Christian Marching Band, an incubator of talent that helped perpetuate the New Orleans aesthetic of danceable and polyphonic jazz well into the future. Giving a Great Jazz Storyteller His Due 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

Jeff, a jazz pianist, is a recovering alcoholic who is almost three years sober. ‘Fourth of July’ Review: Fraught Family Dynamics From Louis C.K. 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

At Lincoln Center, Using Both Sound and Silence One of the most accurate ways to understand jazz these days is through Bud Powell’s cymbal beat. Music Review: At Lincoln Center, Using Both Sound and Silence 2010-09-26T06:11:00Z

What Happened, Miss Simone? traces the American singer's life from her early days as a classically trained pianist to her later jazz and blues career. Sundance opens with Nina Simone film 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

"Listening to jazz spill out from cafés and happening upon street musicians--all in the birthplace of jazz--is very inspiring," says Beattie. Inspirational Travel Destinations 2010-12-09T17:15:00Z

Another variant of the deconstructionist school of jazz is the blending of different ethnic styles. Melbourne jazz festival 2013: reviews and weekend highlights 2013-06-07T02:01:13Z

As performance “Brooklyn Babylon” isn’t about spur-of-the-moment creation; it does not draw a connection between the improvisatory nature of jazz and painting. ?Brooklyn Babylon? by Darcy James Argue and Danijel Zezelj 2011-11-04T15:26:17Z

The guitar, he told the jazz magazine DownBeat, was acquired by chance when he was 21, during the German occupation of Belgium. ‘Toots’ Thielemans, master of the jazz harmonica, dies at 94 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

Iggy Pop, now 72, received GQ’s Lifetime Achievement Award, honoring a six-decade career marked by outrageous stage antics and an exploration of diverse musical genres from hard rock and punk rock to blues and jazz. David Beckham, Greta Thunberg among winners at GQ awards in London 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

“For me that’s hard because if I start improvising, I lapse into the tongue of jazz,” he said. Music: Kirill Gerstein Balances Classical Music and Jazz 2012-04-13T20:24:11Z

In January of 1943, Vogel wrote to the camp’s department of leisure activities to see about establishing a jazz orchestra; he was given permission to assemble it. The Jewish Trumpeter Who Entertained Nazis to Survive the Holocaust 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

In the jazz world you become a side man, say with like Miles Davis. Producer behind fun. takes center stage at Grammys 2013-01-31T15:47:07Z

This is not to say that playing jazz is all frowning and no fun at all. Billy Taylor, Jazz Pianist, Dies at 89 2010-12-29T20:04:32Z

In her essay in the catalog, Ms. Harrison wrote that they interacted “much as jazz soloists take cues and improvise.” | Long Island: ‘Larry Rivers: Collaborations and Appropriations’ Is at Stony Brook University 2012-10-27T04:59:07Z

Mr. Brown was among the early protégés of Lennie Tristano, a blind pianist and composer who charted his own course through modern postwar jazz before withdrawing into a reclusive life of pedagogy. Tristano School, Back in Session 2011-01-09T02:34:14Z

They loved French New Wave films, jazz and literature. 'Lambert & Stamp' explores the 'mesmerizing' duo who managed the Who 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

Masada, which he began in the early 1990s, was an attempt to explore his own roots and expand the idea of Jewish music through a “songbook” that linked the language of klezmer and jazz. Turning 60, John Zorn Sees His Eclecticism as a Musical Norm 2013-07-10T12:00:01Z

Intricate melodies — and solos challenging the laws of nylon — rode over crashing, furious percussion as they raced from heavy-metal riffs to jazz to something vaguely Turkish. Rodrigo y Gabriela Return to Mexico City in Triumph 2012-01-23T22:57:36Z

Other early influences included jazz pianists Fats Waller, Earl Hines and Nat King Cole — better known in his early years as a pianist than as a singer. Mose Allison, who sang the blues with whimsy and a twist of jazz, dies at 89 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Once Noge yielded the floor to her horns, however, the saxophonists cut loose, braying as freely as if they were working an avant-garde jazz room. Chicago's jazz artists play searing music for Japan 2011-04-02T15:11:00Z

"It was a similar thing with this: I was going into the jazz universe, which was brand-new to me," she said. Annie Lennox makes the past her own on 'Nostalgia' 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

Last Wednesday, as skies darkened in New York because of Canadian wildfires, he played mostly jazz standards — including, pointedly, Jerome Kern’s “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” — with Chris Potter, the storied tenor saxophone player. A New Festival Freely Dips Into Jazz and Classical Music 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z

Pushing her voice almost to the point at which her singing threatened to turn into an acting exercise, Ms. Bridgewater held back just enough for the piece to cohere as a brilliant jazz improvisation. Music Review | Dee Dee Bridgewater: A Woman and Her Band Commune With a Legend 2010-02-19T06:19:00Z

Other activities will include making autumn crafts, savoring seasonal recipes at culinary workshops, listening to a live blend of jazz and country music from the Doc Wallace Trio and helping with the harvest. 9 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

American classical music," Jamal continues, using the term he coined for jazz years ago, "interpreted the works of composers such as the Gershwins or Irving Berlin beyond their wildest dreams. Ahmad Jamal: 'After a time you discover the Mozart in you' 2013-02-01T05:00:00Z

Now the venerated arranger and composer has written a spanking new composition for D'Rivera himself, a three-part concerto for clarinet and jazz big band called "Northwest Passage." New Bill Holman composition debuts at Jazz Port Townsend 2011-07-20T22:19:04Z

The Fleece, Bristol, Wed; Ivory Blacks, Glasgow, Thu; Corporation, Sheffield, Fri; and on tour This double bill is a fitting highlight for the excellent annual Manchester jazz festival. Mike Heron & Trembling Bells, Eyehategod, Pharoah Sanders: this week's new live music 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z

It would also have been a way of honoring the vital and enormous African American contribution to American culture in the form of jazz. The black Oscar wins that got away | Peter Bradshaw 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

It is a story of jazz in the midst of its first — and one hopes, not its last — century. 'Shall We Play That One Together?': The life of piano jazz legend Marian McPartland 2012-10-03T21:01:05Z

Like Stravinksy, Weill and others of his European contemporaries, Ravel was swept up by the new American music of the time: ragtime and jazz, whose vivid colours and rhythms are omnipresent in l'Enfant. Glyndebourne 2012: A musical guide to the Ravel opera double bill 2012-08-16T11:05:51Z

It's like how jazz musicians are – they show up for a set, they kind of know the general idea, what happens happens, and that's what you get that night. How the midwest won over the dancefloor 2011-03-03T22:10:01Z

He’s a jazz artist, and he wears a black hat with a black scarf around his face. Sherri Shepherd Skates Through Life 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

Saxophonist Wayne Shorter reminds Hancock of his rich jazz past in collaboration with Indian musicians, including Ravi Shankar's sitarist daughter, Anoushka. F&M playlist 2010-07-15T21:30:00Z

This, for her, is better than sex: the music swells, the lights flash, the absurd sense of invincibility grows and, whatever the grimy surroundings, "a smooth jazz band follows everywhere I go". Gambling | Theatre review 2010-03-23T22:40:00Z

While “Radio Music Society” is crowded with several generations of jazz musicians — including her old mentor from Portland, the trumpeter Thara Memory, along with his students — she’s front and center at every turn. Esperanza Spalding on a Year in the Spotlight 2012-03-16T15:58:59Z

In 2012, the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences honored Mr. Van Gelder with its Trustees Award, recognizing his lifelong contribution to jazz recording. Rudy Van Gelder, audio engineer who helped shape venerated jazz recordings, dies at 91 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

“Beloved by the musicians she worked so hard for,” the post said, “she was a passionate advocate for jazz who built a vibrant scene around the music & gave a platform to so many deserving artists.” Meghan Stabile, Who Linked Jazz and Hip-Hop, Dies at 39 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

What he set out to avoid was a retread of the fusions that have yoked jazz and Indian music in the past, especially that of John McLaughlin’s Shakti, another chamberesque acoustic ensemble. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-03-14T23:23:56Z

Next up was the composer and violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain’s “Voodoo Violin Concerto,” a 25-minute work from 2002 that reflects his Haitian heritage but also fuses elements of hip-hop, jazz and classical contemporary styles. Review: The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Returns, With Gusto 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z

This year offered something of a reverse, a move that inspired The Times to offer impressions of the festival from both the classical and jazz perspective. Transcending genre labels, Vijay Iyer leads the Ojai Music Festival toward bold new territory 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

When Mr. Rollins released “The Freedom Suite” in 1958, the first major work by a jazz musician to address civil rights concerns, he accompanied it with eloquent and persuasive liner notes. Inside Sonny Rollins’s Jazz Archive, Headed Home to Harlem 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

The club’s calendar for that month, which includes a “Farewell to the Stone” celebration, was singled out on Monday in the Twitter feed of Destination: Out, a two-person team of advocates for avant-garde jazz. The Stone (Apparently) Announces Its End Date 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

"Moldavite" is 33 songs of spliced 'n diced jazz meets rap meets club music. Seattle summer albums by Father John Misty and more 2012-05-18T13:13:59Z

Prior to this he trained in ballet, tap and jazz, and worked as a professional dancer. Peter Lovatt: 'Dancing can change the way you think' 2011-07-30T23:05:56Z

This is a trend, a shift from tap as music making in the jazz soloist sense to something more communal, collective and friendly. Dance Review: ‘Taps International’ Has American, Cuban and Japanese Work 2013-07-12T21:02:21Z

He went to the Royal College of Music in Stockholm to major in jazz guitar, but soon left for U.S.C., where he scored dozens of student films. How Ludwig Goransson Became Directors’ Secret Musical Weapon 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

The Doors always considered themselves "more" than a rock band and Manzarek, Densmore and Krieger often managed a flowing rapport that blended rock, blues and jazz behind Morrison's self-consciously poetic lyrics. Manzarek, founding member of The Doors, dies at 74 2013-05-21T14:23:11Z

Cohen, 28, has a breezy, phlegmatic command at the keyboard, and a deep well of historical jazz references at his fingertips. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

What’s new in jazz doesn’t always equate to youth, or even any clear stylistic break. At the NYC Winter Jazzfest, Learning How Less Can Be More 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

A smooth jazz instrumental — Washington’s preferred music to spin to — started blaring as his 30 seconds began. Inside the world of competitive sign spinning 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

Behind her girlish mannerisms, Ms. Harms revealed the determination of a strong, independent woman who knows what she wants and refuses to worship at the altars of her jazz forerunners. Nancy Harms Celebrates Duke Ellington 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

American jazz recordings were hard to come by and prohibitively expensive. Dancing on the Edge: episode one 2013-02-04T22:30:01Z

At 3, the jazz singer Marjorie Eliot will teach freedom songs. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

The score is infused with jazz rhythms and filled with lyrical passages, including full-fledged arias for some of the characters. Met season to open with first-ever opera by Black composer 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

But before that, the director is scheduled to perform with his New Orleans jazz band on a tour that will bring him to the Orpheum Theatre in downtown L.A. in August. Woody Allen bringing jazz band to Orpheum Theatre in August 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

I started off doing jazz, singing with a lot of fabulous musicians here in London before I went to the States. Marianne Jean-Baptiste: 'Kindness is a religion, and so is honesty' 2013-06-02T06:00:12Z

She also turned her keen ears toward her contemporaries, writing articles and essays that immortalized the people and places of the jazz world in the 1950s and ’60s. Jazz Legend Marian McPartland Dies at 95 2013-08-21T09:22:12Z

It’s been a long time since anyone really thought of him as “just” a jazz drummer. The 1975’s Chamber-Pop Confessions, and 8 More New Songs 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z

Plenty of art forms have a gender imbalance, but in jazz, where men heavily dominate the industry’s production, consumption and education, the inequality is especially pronounced. Girls Are Outnumbered in Jazz. At This Summer Camp, They Run the Show. 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

What’s left unspoken on both albums, and on “Race for the White House,” is the reluctance with which a jazz constituency approaches the end of Barack Obama’s presidency. Swinging the Vote: Jazz Inspired by the Presidential Race 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

His latest project explores the sounds and movement of flamenco, merging jazz, Caribbean folk and other genres. Brandi Carlile, Savion Glover, The Chieftains in SSO's pop-culture series 2010-06-03T15:36:00Z

“What I tell younger jazz musicians is you have to find the right guy who likes the music and sort of feels sorry for jazz musicians.” When the hits (to musicians’ health) just keep on coming 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

A full helping of lively crossover material and thoroughgoing spiritual jazz, it will see the light of day next month. The Playlist: Black Eyed Peas Get Serious About Injustice, and 12 More New Songs 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Some passages hint of avant-garde jazz, like an audacious Cecil Taylor improvisation, but with flintier modernist madness. Review: A Carnegie Recital Pushes the Piano to Its Limits 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

A second version of that piece, recorded with a full band including the jazz bassist Ron Carter, was released on Mr. Scott-Heron’s second album, “Pieces of a Man,” in 1971. Gil Scott-Heron, Voice of Black Culture, Dies at 62 2011-05-28T17:37:19Z

And he reminisced on moments in the history of jazz — a genre he helped define as a trombonist for Dinah Washington, Sun Ra, Max Roach, Herbie Hancock, Duke Ellington and many others. Seattle’s Julian Priester helped create jazz as we know it. Now, he’s focusing on teaching the art of listening 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

Streaks of reggae as you know it are here, and of late-’60s American jazz, too. CD Reissues: Van Morrison, Sarah Vaughn and More 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

Miles's embrace of electricity split the jazz world between excitement and contempt but he remained unrepentant. The muse who changed Miles 2010-09-04T23:05:00Z

It’s during a starlit tap dance in the Hollywood Hills that Sebastian, a jazz pianist, and Mia, an aspiring actress, try to ward off their feelings for each other and then succumb to them. Triumphant ‘La La Land’ demonstrates the power of dance to tell a story 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

More or less, this band is going back to the beginnings of the split between structured and free jazz, and binding up the wound. New Music: The National, Mike Pride and Hush Point Release Albums 2013-05-20T21:46:46Z

They are both deep appreciators of English psychedelic rock, free jazz and other far more esoteric microgenres. How Four Tet Helped Madlib Make Something Totally New: A Solo Album 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

The cumulative effect is intoxicating, as we follow the life paths of Gosling’s self-undermining jazz musician and Stone’s eager but tentative actor. The 50 best films of 2016 in the US: No 2 La La Land 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

After dinner, soak up the smooth sounds and surroundings at Yamatoya, a longstanding jazz bar that reopened in 2013 after a yearlong renovation. 36 Hours in Kyoto, Japan 2014-02-26T17:33:15Z

Those lyrics were written by Thomas, his jazz collaborator, and on paper they read like a lament for our doomed species. Perspective | Can Iggy Pop hear the future? 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

The contrast between Mr. Rollins’s aggressive saxophone playing and Mr. Hall’s quieter approach helped make the release of Mr. Rollins’s album “The Bridge” one of the most notable jazz events of 1962. Jim Hall, Jazz Guitarist, Dies at 83 2013-12-11T03:50:57Z

“There’s been a lot of attempts at fusing jazz and hip-hop,” said Don Was, the veteran record producer recently appointed president of Blue Note. Music: Robert Glasper Experiment to Release ?Black Radio? 2012-02-24T20:30:08Z

It's one of the great European jazz groups of recent times. This week's new live music 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

Dyer is so bound to his own idea of what jazz is, and to its popular and classical roots, that he can’t hear the ideas of one of its greatest creators. Coltrane’s Free Jazz Wasn’t Just “A Lot of Noise” 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

“That was really where I found my true heart for dance — everything from modern and jazz to African and cirque.” Corbin Bleu, on Broadway and Dancing in Fred Astaire’s Footsteps 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

Amirtha Kidambi — a singer who fuses classical modernism, free jazz and Carnatic drones in her band, Elder Ones — is Mr. Evans’s life partner and a member of the same creative cohort. With Peter Evans on Trumpet, Only the Shape Is Familiar 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

Miles Davis, one of the most influential musicians in jazz history, will be the focus of a citywide, four-month festival organized by the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University. Festival to celebrate Miles Davis 2011-01-12T06:00:00Z

And the jazz pianist Chick Corea will be the orchestra’s artist in residence, performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24, with his own cadenzas, and writing a trombone concerto. The Philharmonic’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

Indian classical is one of the world’s oldest improvised-music traditions; jazz is one of the youngest. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

He also discussed the lengths Cheadle went to to convince the rest of the family that he was the right person to play the jazz musician. Don Cheadle: 'I wanted to create a film that Miles Davis would want to star in' 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Before jazz was eclipsed by rock music in the mid-’60s, it was the sound of civil rights, of black nationalism, of riot and protest in the street. In 2015, jazz reasserted itself 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

A trombonist who played with a number of international musicians, he went on to become the musical director of Germany's national youth jazz orchestra in 1987. German jazz player Peter Herbolzheimer dies at 74 2010-03-29T15:01:00Z

My dad is a jazz musician and I grew up around guys who could play. Unknown Mortal Orchestra an accidental success story 2013-10-10T15:05:45Z

Nostalgic futurism butts up against speech-bubble book titles, “Suggested Reading” in art, astronomy, poetry and theory, jazz, folklore and mass culture. Wit and wordplay abound in the comic collages of Allen Ruppersberg 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

Chinen, a former New York Times jazz critic, seems to approach his own listening the same way. Review | How the Internet transformed contemporary jazz 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

To me — after years of listening primarily to pop/rock/jazz/traditional/world/etc. music — opera singing is athletic and superhuman, a feat of discipline and training. Ren?e Fleming, Opera Star, Tries a Rock Album. 2010-05-31T21:58:00Z

Mr. Roumain skillfully folds gospel, funk, jazz and contemporary classical idioms into the score. 5 Operas in 72 Hours: A Philadelphia Festival Is a Test of Survival 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

This year, we got lucky because we got all the major jazz attractions in Europe. Montreux festival boss promises strong line up 2010-04-26T12:26:00Z

But much like another neglected spouse of a famous jazz legend, Alice Coltrane, younger generations are beginning to fully appreciate her vision and understand how she empowered her partner’s own explorations. Don Cherry is a deserving giant of jazz. Now his wife, Moki, gets her due as his visionary collaborator. 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

They are featured in all types of music: classical, bluegrass, country, jazz and even rock. Start this week on a high note by celebrating National Violin Day 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

It has an arresting, raucous sound, supplied in part by the saxophonist Donny McCaslin and his band, whom Bowie had first seen in at the 55 Bar, a jazz club in the West Village. My Most Memorable Cultural Moments of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

The most compelling solo jazz piano music has a way of blurring the lines, valorizing technical astonishments mainly as a means to an end, while delivering less tangible, more mysterious rewards. Lonely Voyage of Player,Piano and Audience 2011-07-02T04:00:25Z

Mellers chose a fitting place to air such a provocative opinion: the liner notes of a jazz album by South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim. 50 great moments in jazz: Abdullah Ibrahim 2011-02-09T16:21:12Z

This weekend Mr. Henriquez convenes a redoubtable cast of musicians from across generations and nationalities for a celebration of Gillespie’s Latin jazz legacy. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Then he was back to business, dedicating the next tune to one of his bedrock jazz heroes, Thelonious Monk. Music Review: Eddie Palmieri’s Retrospective at Jazz at Lincoln Center 2012-12-17T05:06:51Z

Only a few steps from the Grand Place, this jazz club has the advantage of pulling in tourists as well as hepcats. 10 of the best music venues in Brussels 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

Perhaps it’s too much to expect an opera singer’s breadth of tone, a jazz singer’s command of vocal color or a cabaret artist’s relishing of the lyrics. Jackie Evancho, with a bell-like voice, elicits numerous ovations 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

In the 1950s, distressed with the jazz world, she converted to Catholicism and temporarily retired from the stage. Jazz Wouldn’t Be the Same Without Them. But Few Applauded These Hidden Figures. 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

He was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, the country’s highest honor for jazz musicians, in 2006. Buddy DeFranco, 91, Versatile Jazz Clarinetist, Dies 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

That was pretty cool, even if fans seemed more excited about that than the remarkable Brazilian musicians tearing through regional jazz tones and capoeira rhythms a few hundred yards away. Rock in Rio USA is a ball of confusion 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

“A lot of who I am is described in the qualities of those two guys — the fiery jazz singer and the balladeer — and how they performed,” he said in 2005. Al Jarreau, seven-time Grammy-winning singer, dies at 76 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

When Miles Davis, the great jazz trumpeter, was searching for a funkier and more contemporary sound in the early 1970s, Mr. Dupree was among the musicians he used on his album “Get Up With It.” Cornell Dupree, Guitarist and Sideman to the Stars, Dies at 68 2011-05-15T06:23:01Z

The emphasis is on mainline jazz but veers into funk, soul, African and Latin. 10 of the best music venues in Brussels 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

While she oversees all types of genres — including pop, jazz, folk and rock — classical music is her area of expertise. An Advocate for Classical Music and Women 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

The accompaniment was the Philharmonic as jazz band. Salonen and Philharmonic see America anew 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

He's always retained jazz credibility, however, with a sensitive vocal style that can sweep across several octaves without missing the tricky intervals and syncopations of jazz virtuosity. Al Jarreau ? review 2011-07-05T18:30:01Z

Similar efforts were pushed in the 1990s when Congress set up a national park in New Orleans to celebrate jazz. New Orleans jazz landmark razed in rebuilding push 2011-01-07T11:01:04Z

She never became a household name on that level, but she remains one of the most respected jazz voices of her generation. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

The name of the place is pure Washington: It refers to a 1987 House of Representatives resolution — HR 57 — that designated jazz a rare and valuable national American treasure. 36 Hours in Washington, D.C. 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Couples danced and some sang along to old jazz standards such as "Back Home In Indiana" and "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" on Saturday. Old standards greet fans on Jazz Fest's 2nd day 2013-04-27T17:59:08Z

Mr. Ellis was an early disciple of Charlie Christian, whose deft improvisations, built on long single-note lines, established the template for modern jazz guitar in the 1940s. Herb Ellis, Jazz Guitarist, Is Dead at 88 2010-03-31T03:52:00Z

What is the measure of a great jazz drummer? Critic’s Notebook: Jamison Ross Wins Thelonious Monk Contest 2012-09-24T22:05:15Z

At its best, large-ensemble jazz composition retains the whirling kinetics that defined the original big bands. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

This synthesis is not always jazz and not necessarily musical. Melbourne jazz festival 2013: reviews and weekend highlights 2013-06-07T02:01:13Z

He attended the opera and haunted jazz clubs. Johnny Mathis, the voice of the ’50s, was always ahead of his time. Now he’s ready to talk about it. 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

To those who play them, Devil May Cry games are virtual violence as jazz, with points for variety and deductions for doing the same thing repeatedly. Video Game Review: DmC Is the New Devil May Cry Game From Capcom 2013-01-28T22:48:32Z

He formed a jazz fusion band and started playing around the city. Cisco Swank ‘Is Black Music. All of It.’ 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

“Most of her records,” the jazz critic Richard Cook, writing about Bush in Sounds magazine, complained, “smell of tarot cards, kitchen curtains and lavender pillows.” The Enduring, Incandescent Power of Kate Bush 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

“I’m a saxophone player and I ran a small jazz club in Vancouver for 15 years,” says Weeds. New releases of vintage jazz recordings show Seattle jazz haunt The Penthouse in its prime 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Using techniques and tools originally developed for medicine and geology, researchers have found a “jazz” facet to Picasso, in how he painted over an older artwork. Scanners find secrets from Picasso’s ‘Blue Period’ 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

He could pull away in the jazz, American roots music and classical fields. Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo could score big at Grammys 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z

He is also survived by hundreds of skilled jazz musicians. Leon Breeden, Jazz Educator, Dies at 88 2010-08-14T04:45:00Z

Barnes has assembled a multigenerational crew of Black dancers, experts in various styles, and is putting them in conversation with jazz musicians and a DJ. From the Lindy Hop to Hip-Hop in One Improvising Body 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

More history-making is the fact that “Fire,” with a score by jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard, will be the first opera by a Black musician presented at the Met in its 138 years. Met season to open with first-ever opera by Black composer 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

He curates a jazz and popular song series at Jazz at Lincoln Center and a series, Standard Time With Michael Feinstein, at Zankel Hall. Michael Feinstein and the Club 54 Below Agree to a Partnership 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

The wayward product of a strict religious upbringing in Oakland, Calif. — her father, Emil Borg, a church organist, taught her to play piano — Ms. Bley discovered jazz in adolescence and never recovered. Carla Bley, Still Improvising and Inspiring as She Turns 80 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

Later on, I went to the Berklee College of Music and became a jazz pianist. J.R. Rotem on Producing Hits for Gwen Stefani and 'Empire' 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

He studied theory and notation and became more interested in jazz than rock. If you could read Gordon Lightfoot’s mind, this is the tale his thoughts could tell 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

They’re spaces where jazz bleeds outward, and converses with a less regimented audience. Where Jazz Lives Now 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

Both zero in on highly unusual characters: a woman who rejects a ham she won from a local store after her home burned down; a chain-smoking 9-year-old who dreams of becoming a jazz singer. 4 Writers to Watch This Summer 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

For that reason, shows there lean toward more contemplative genres: local jazz, classical and folk. 7 great neighborhood clubs for live music 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

The first of those, “Roses,” was one of the finest jazz albums of 2007; the second, “Ghosts of the Sun,” was released on Nov. 22, the day Mr. Motian died. Music: Jazz Records Inspired by Paul Motian 2011-12-04T04:03:06Z

AP: Is there a big difference in playing drums in a jazz band from playing in a rock band? Charlie Watts shines a light on Stones' 50th plans 2012-07-06T15:04:10Z

The American Museum of Natural History is hosting its first adults-only sleepover this week, with a champagne reception, live jazz and a three-course dinner. Night at the museum: U.S. adults embrace art, science sleepovers 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Thanks to such works as her 2001 requiem for victims of the atomic bomb, "Hiroshima: Rising From the Abyss," Akiyoshi is regarded as one of the finest composers in jazz. Seattle musicians blow 'Winds for Hope' to tsunami-struck Japan 2012-03-08T22:03:06Z

This annual engagement celebrates the birthday of Dizzy Gillespie, the co-inventor of bebop and a champion of Latin jazz, who died in 1993. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

On 8 May, the House of Commons played host to its ninth annual shindig for the Parliamentary jazz awards. Take five: John Fordham's month in jazz – May 2013-05-21T16:06:18Z

It proved particularly adroit at pulling off one of the late composer's smartest tricks, making a full-strength jazz band sound just about any size, from an intimate ensemble to a richly-textured orchestra. Take Five 2012: John Fordham's year in jazz 2012-12-18T14:09:36Z

His partner in crime is Buddy, “The world’s greatest piano player,” who provides a pulsing piano soundtrack, vividly performed here by the Cuban jazz pianist Elio Villafranca. Opera Review: ‘Vidas Perfectas,’ Spanish Version of a Robert Ashley Opera 2014-04-18T21:56:09Z

"But our festival includes music in the neighbourhood of jazz without being jazz per se." Jazz moves to stay 'relevant' 2012-07-03T07:44:48Z

Revive Music produces concerts that engage a double helix of jazz and hip-hop. At 30, What Does Jazz at Lincoln Center Mean? 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

The program will be a full evening of two new works for 12 dancers: “Preludes and Fugues,” to the music of Bach, and “Yowzie,” to American jazz classics. Making Dance: Fifty Years and Counting 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

They included the Metropolis Ensemble — the conductor Andrew Cyr, a string quartet and four singers — and the jazz pianist D. D. Jackson, who wrote dramatic, somberly dissonant arrangements for the ensemble. The Roots Touch on Poverty, Death and God at the Public 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

“The Cuban” opens with Cuban jazz on the soundtrack and bright watercolors of mid-20th-century Havana accompanying the credits. ‘The Cuban’ Review: Memories Lost and Reignited 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

Raised in Chile and based in New York, she began her career focused on standard jazz repertoire, but her affinities have always roved widely. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

He’s like a twisted jazz musician under all that country. Texas Monthly: Norah Jones Lists Her Favorite Music 2012-01-01T01:20:07Z

In the 1930s, Raymond Scott was at the forefront of avant-garde jazz. Dance Review: Dance Heginbotham Presents ‘Manhattan Research’ 2013-08-09T20:14:42Z

Afterward, as guests mingled before entering the ballroom for dinner, the bride’s father, the jazz musician Marty Ehrlich, and an ensemble performed a work he composed for his daughter and her new husband. Sharing Their Visions, Two Filmmakers Find Love 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Understanding this as well as anybody is Lady Gaga herself, whose upcoming duets album with jazz legend Tony Bennett takes an unexpected approach to reminding fans why they’re drawn to her in the first place. Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett: "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

The group made its mark by transforming everything from jazz to movie themes into ska style. Son of Skatalites member killed in Jamaica 2012-02-28T03:16:04Z

An Australian musician introduces a new form of jazz called "jozz". Julia Davis and Jessica Hynes: 'We're curious about what goes on in strangers' heads' 2010-10-23T23:05:00Z

In 2009 Mr. Glasper released a tantalizing album, “Double Booked,” with six tracks by his longstanding acoustic jazz trio and another six by the Experiment. A Month of Robert Glasper’s Experiments at the Blue Note 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

Universal is taking the same approach it took with “Motown Unreleased 1962,” a series of jazz and soul compilations from that important Detroit label that Universal marketed on iTunes last year. European Copyright Laws Lead to Rare Music Releases 2013-12-11T22:12:24Z

Alongside Ryan Gosling, a jazz musician still dreaming of his genre’s glory days, the two get swept up in a whirlwind romance. Emma Stone Talks 'La La Land' and Keeping Dreams Alive 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

The music evokes classical contemporary idioms, bluegrass, jazz, pop, even reggae. Anthony Tommasini’s Interactive Quest for Surprises 2014-02-28T15:50:53Z

The record brought together a collection of compositions based outside the traditional 4/4 time feel so prevalent in jazz at the time, and which dominates pop to this day. Jamie Cullum: Dave Brubeck and me 2010-11-23T22:01:00Z

If this movie had been made in the ’30s or ’40s, though, the cast would most likely have included a handful of black actors, playing Pullman porters, hotel workers and jazz musicians. We Still Like It Hot 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

In the piece, Vogel argues that jazz represents the truest kind of liberation—a sort of spiritual and political emancipation. The Jewish Trumpeter Who Entertained Nazis to Survive the Holocaust 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

At home in Wisconsin one summer during college, the jazz pianist Mara Rosenbloom was in a highway accident that nearly ended her career before it had begun. For Mara Rosenbloom, Piano as a Remedy and a Force in Jazz 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

A British singer-songwriter and pianist with a loose foothold in jazz, he’s as well-known for the kinetic mania of his concerts as he is for the playful rasp in his voice. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-03-08T07:40:00Z

Mr. Danelli, a protégé of the great jazz drummers Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa, merged percussive virtuosity with a rock sensibility. Dino Danelli, Whose Drums Drove the Rascals, Is Dead at 78 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z

But as much as the film's self-sabotaging antihero loved heroin, he loved jazz even more. Jazz films explore the hell and joy of musical perfection 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

The movies, with few exceptions, have hardly ever told the story of jazz through the lens of Black life. Jazz Onscreen, Depicted by Black Filmmakers at Last 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

Bruce, who was born in Glasgow, began playing bass as a teenager and dropped out of music school because he was not allowed to play jazz. Jack Bruce, Former Cream Frontman, Dies at 71 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

Alongside humor, the startling juxtapositions of Mr. Zorn’s scores often feature elements of jazz, rock, classical, punk, improvisation, klezmer and cartoon and film music. Music Review: John Zorn Performing at Alice Tully Hall 2013-07-19T19:42:03Z

He often seemed to be writing around Parker’s life, dwelling instead on jazz and black life in the 20th century. Review: Zachary Leader’s ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964’ 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

The mission of Essentially Ellington is to disseminate the music of Duke Ellington and to improve the quality of high-school jazz bands. Seattle-area bands 2nd and 3rd at prestigious New York jazz competition 2011-05-15T03:11:59Z

The group became his vehicle for exploring jazz qua jazz, playing vital music that resonated down the corridors of its own history. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

"There have been big developments in the new jazz scene of Poland in the last decade, perhaps due to the fact that the country has opened up so much during that time." The sound of freedom 2011-02-28T15:18:33Z

Among its other virtues, “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” was memorable for the distinctive way Blanchard, its composer, managed to bridge the sound of a jazz combo with that of the Met’s full orchestra. The Met Opera’s New Season: What We Want to See 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

At issue was a problem of representation — and the tendency, on the part of many jazz fans, to regard every turn in the spotlight as a chance for outreach. Jazz’s Year of Complaint, Citing ‘Whiplash’ and The New Yorker 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

Corralling over 100 sets of boldly programmed music, it’s your opportunity to catch a gust of the trade winds sweeping across contemporary jazz. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Trucks was considered to be the straightforward rhythm player, while Mr. Johanson added R&B and jazz influences. Butch Trucks, Drummer in the Allman Brothers Band, Dies at 69 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

The history of jazz’s post-1960s avant-garde has been a tactile experience for him. New Music: New Music: Javier Colon and Taylor Ho Bynum - Reviews 2011-11-28T23:08:05Z

So I learned my craft, and when it came to doing “Fritz the Cat,” I was ready and I had also just learned about the writers I told you, and jazz. They don’t make them like Ralph Bakshi anymore: “Now, animators don’t have ideas. They just like to move things around” 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Many jazz fans would immediately recognize the studio interior from photos on albums released by labels like Blue Note and Impulse!, two of Van Gelder’s biggest clients. Plotting the Future of the Most Storied Studio in Jazz 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

“Raised with unprecedented access to information,” Chinen writes of today’s improvisers, “they scour jazz history not for a linear narrative but a network of possibilities.” Review | How the Internet transformed contemporary jazz 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

Youthful Memories, Reinvented You can’t underestimate the transformation of what seems like an ordinary song when an interpreter like Sharón Clark, a Washington-based jazz and soul diva, tears it apart and peers inside. Music Review: Sharón Clark at the Metropolitan Room 2013-01-30T20:18:58Z

He returned to the United States in 1951 to capitalize on the success of “I’m in the Mood for Love,” forming a seven-piece band that mixed elements of modern jazz with rhythm and blues. James Moody, Jazz Saxophonist, Dies at 85 2010-12-10T19:00:00Z

The restaurant, with its tableside dining and Sunday afternoon jazz, became the place for celebrities to hang out. 10 of the best things to do in Palm Springs, California 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Cail, the jazz guitarist, was standing near the bathroom line. The Last Days of Beckett’s, a Smoky New York Literary Salon 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z

Over his four-decade career, Mr. Caldwell swerved freely among genres, exploring R&B, reggae, soft rock and smooth jazz, as well as standards from the Great American Songbook. Bobby Caldwell, Silky-Voiced R&B Crooner, Dies at 71 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

Problem: People aren't going out to listen to jazz much anymore. Sounds Outside brings jazz to the people ? free and outdoors 2010-07-15T21:27:00Z

Meanwhile, Washington D.C. is not so jazzed about the return of murder. Review: In ‘Minority Report,’ a Case of Precognitive Dissonance 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

The orchestra goes its own extravagant way, with crazy, fabulous jazz outbursts from  violin, sax and trombone. The L.A. Phil’s opening gala at Disney Hall finds Dudamel & Co. in full jazz swing 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

He descends from the cerebral and expressive jazz guitarist Jim Hall, and if he sometimes seems to lose his way it is usually in the direction of a too fastidious intellectual rigor. Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge and Their New Record, “Mount Royal” 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

In March, the jazz pianist and composer Dan Tepfer found himself confined to his apartment in Brooklyn with all his bookings canceled for the foreseeable future, like musicians everywhere. A Jazz Pianist Flips Bach Upside-Down 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

And with Mr. Masekela, he helped found the Jazz Epistles, a sextet of young all-stars whose 1960 LP, “Jazz Epistle: Verse 1,” signaled a turning point in modern South African jazz. Jonas Gwangwa, Trombonist and Anti-Apartheid Activist, Dies at 83 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

The peerless jazz saxophonist and composer is often my own go-to in disorganized moments; he can lead you into the depths unease, then slip past it toward a distant, beckoning peace. 2018’s best dance: A year when human warmth burned brightly 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

So many jazz singers — even very good ones — insert echoes of Holiday’s scratchy feline sound and slurred enunciation into their interpretations — that Ms. Kilgore’s reminder was well taken. Music Review: Rebecca Kilgore Honors Billie Holiday and Lester Young 2010-08-03T20:46:00Z

Still among jazz’s biggest supporters, the French hold terrific festivals, like Jazz à la Villette, which runs from Aug. 31 to Sept. Jazz, Very Much Alive, in Paris 2010-08-27T10:00:00Z

Charles Mingus perhaps came closest to turning a grab bag of approaches, from Dixieland to atonality, into a unified jazz stance. ‘Heaven and Earth’ by Kamasi Washington Review: Musical Miracle Worker? 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

Sipping a martini while listening to live jazz? 10 Ways to Make Your Business Trip Feel Like a Vacation 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

One impression the endowment’s Jazz Masters ceremony often leaves is that jazz now represents a living language but a dwindling culture. Music Review: 2013 N.E.A. Jazz Masters Are Honored 2013-01-15T22:24:48Z

Thanks to the intrepid Association of Performing Arts Presenters, which braves January in New York City for its annual convention, a brigade of jazz and world-music performers converges in downtown Manhattan next weekend. | The Year Ahead: Pop Music in 2012 2011-12-29T22:47:40Z

A visual equivalent of jazz performance has produced her most experimental work. Ming Smith’s Poetic Blur 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z

On Friday and Saturday from 7 to 10 p.m., visitors 21 and older can view the display while sipping cocktails and listening to jazz during the “Bar Car Night” series, which concludes this weekend. Spare Times for Jan. 9-15 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Actor Michael Imperioli is in tune with the times - starring in a new thriller set in a foreclosed house and off-screen supporting a school jazz program led by recession-squeezed musical greats. 'Sopranos' actor supports NY school's jazz program 2010-05-25T20:12:00Z

“I think that this will do something that we haven’t quite seen in a jazz space,” said Jason Moran, the jazz pianist and composer, who was the Center’s inaugural exhibition curator. Secret No More: Louis Armstrong Center Amplifies Satchmo’s Vision 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z

Ellington’s music stayed open to jazz’s younger generations. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Duke Ellington 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

Given the current debates about inclusion and representation roiling jazz, Hollywood and the country as a whole, this is a particularly unfortunate framework to be working within. ‘La La Land’ Is Stuck in Its Own Time 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

Wilson, a brilliant composer and educator who essentially embodied Los Angeles jazz history until his death last year at age 96, was brought to life in a set conducted by his son, guitarist Anthony Wilson. Playboy Jazz Festival keeps the party moving at the Bowl 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

But Johnson has a more explicitly modern jazz side, too — dark, modal, intricate — that comes through on her pulsing, agitated arrangement of Leonard Bernstein’s dramatic melody, “Some Other Time.” Review: Album releases by Greta Matassa and Kelley Johnson show two Seattle jazz singers at the top of their game 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

Her mother is French-Italian, her father is Algerian and she was brought up in Algeria and France, where she listened to disco and funk, and studied piano, singing and jazz improv. Iness Mezel: Beyond the Trance ? review 2011-02-24T22:40:02Z

The Nazis officially condemned jazz as “jungle music,” identifying it with blacks and Jews, but a hunger for it remained, both in the camps and elsewhere in Europe. The Jewish Trumpeter Who Entertained Nazis to Survive the Holocaust 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

A hospital in the Alpine city of Gap says the 70-year-old fell ill before a concert Thursday at a jazz festival in the French town of Barcelonnette. Singer Al Jarreau hospitalized in France 2010-07-23T11:42:00Z

French intellectuals love jazz, he writes, “partially because every sweet note reminded them of American racism, which conveniently let them forget their own racism.” Viet Thanh Nguyen Packs Plenty of Action and Outrage Into ‘The Committed’ 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

His idea, he said, was that performers would take a bagatelle and, like improvising jazz musicians, make a full piece of it. Review: John Zorn Brings Avant-Garde Style to the Stone 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

“One of the main connectors between that Afro-Cuban lineage and American jazz is what you hear in the work songs, the prison songs and even the spirituals — the call and response in the church.” 75 Years Ago, Latin Jazz Was Born. Its Offspring Are Going Strong. 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z

There are few saxophonists in jazz today as silvery and deft as Ravi Coltrane, who blew a handful of melted-ore solos throughout the evening, bending in all sorts of directions without slurring the notes themselves. March in Live Jazz: 5 Standout Shows 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

But he’s presenting that disposition in the context of a new jazz trio that plays in current hip frequencies, disguising meter and tempo. 2010-02-11T08:10:00Z

I’m on my own now, so I’m going back to blues and jazz, what I really love, and do it right.’ The Singer Who Inspired Coen Brothers’ New Film 2013-12-05T22:59:33Z

Then there’s the serendipity: those times when we encounter a jazz band performing on a subway platform or a saxophonist playing amid the trees in a park. Great Jazz on the Great Hill, and Club Fare in Harlem and the Village 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

They set a few words within a gentle vamp, often with a touch of jazz or blues, and linger over them until they become liquid incantations, melting into the music and finding refuge there. Music Review: Michael Kiwanuka at the Highline Ballroom 2012-06-14T21:40:14Z

Here, cool met literary, jazz met Balkan, Tirana met Havana. Tirana, Breaking Free From Communist Past, Is a City Transformed 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

That debut, on Feb. 7, 1966, initiated a residency with no close equivalent in jazz, and few parallels in any creative field. For the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Just This Once, Every Night Is Monday Night 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

A jazz trio will play Bach in Vilnius, Lithuania, and in Seattle, dozens of performances are planned in one of this country's most robust lineups. Los Angeles' Bach in the Subways celebration ready to roll Saturday 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

The first play of her Signature residency is set in a Detroit jazz club in 1949, its spotlight trained on a trumpeter, his longtime lover and a mysterious newcomer. 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

Nancy Wilson demonstrates everything I look for in excellent jazz singing! 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Vocals 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z

She left Chicago in 2012 to attend graduate school at Towson University in Baltimore, but departed a few credits short of a master’s degree in jazz performance. Jaimie Branch, Trumpeter Who Crossed Genre Lines, Dies at 39 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z

Like jazz before it, barbecue is viewed as an authentic expression of American life. Move over, foie gras: The latest rage in Paris is . . . classic American barbecue 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

Three of the first four pieces on the album edge into the chaos of free jazz, the instrumentalists coming at each other at odd angles, flirting with harmony and melody but never quite settling down. Album review: Dirty Three, 'Toward the Low Sun' 2012-02-27T18:49:00Z

For over 35 years, the Grammy-winning Rebirth Brass Band has boisterously carried forward the marching-band tradition of New Orleans, covering everything from traditional Mardi Gras fare to modern jazz and R&B hits. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

A jazz singer to the core, Elling is a charismatic ambassador for the music wherever he goes. Kurt Elling – review 2013-04-17T16:32:34Z

Lately, artists fluent in—and oftentimes raised on—dance, hip-hop, or punk have brought new audiences to jazz by making those connections a bit more explicit. My Journey with Jazz 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

I had jazz demos, and I had songs I had written with my friend, Jesse Harris, and Bruce wanted to hear more. "Come Away With Me" at 20: Norah Jones reflects on "hopeful, romantic" record but won't call it jazz 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z

The giants, the founding fathers of jazz, are mostly gone. Montreal Jazz: A Conversation With Andr? M?nard 2010-07-02T21:24:00Z

Every song on “Speak No Evil” has been learned by each new generation of jazz students. The World’s Greatest Living Jazz Composer Celebrates His Eighty-fifth Birthday 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

Burmer’s next innovations include a ballet, music for a fashion show and a jazz concert with new music for some old legends. ‘Celebrate World Music’ stretches composers’ boundaries 2013-03-21T20:35:13Z

Operettas that premiered in Berlin during the 1920s and early ’30s were a departure from their Viennese predecessors: more urban, more influenced by American jazz. The Last Operetta of the Weimar Republic Returns to Berlin 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

On Wednesday, Miss Arkansas Savvy Shields won the talent competition with a jazz dance to a song from the TV show "Smash," and Miss Maryland Hannah Brewer won the swimsuit competition. 3rd night of Miss America preliminaries on tap for Thursday 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Sid Griffiths, a bass player, and Chip Jones, a drummer, have spent 10 years riding the wave of popularity for American jazz. "Half-Blood Blues:" Jazz musicians in the jaws of the Nazis 2012-03-15T20:52:03Z

Ms. Sayer was a founding member of Woody Allen’s Dixieland jazz band; when playing with her own group, she sings New Orleans standards with a blend of theatricality and nonchalance. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

In his score, Blanchard deftly blends elements of jazz, blues, hints of big band and gospel into a compositional voice dominated by lushly chromatic and modal harmonic writing, spiked with jagged rhythms and tart dissonance. Review: ‘Fire’ Brings a Black Composer to the Met, Finally 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

He’s been a music professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, establishing the first college course on Duke Ellington there, and he was named an NEA jazz master in 2005. ‘To think it has come to this’: Kenny Burrell’s journey from jazz legend to GoFundMe appeal 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

There are also art exhibitions, a military tattoo at Edinburgh Castle and programs centered on books and jazz. Bound for the Edinburgh Festival? Here's Where to Stay and Dine 2012-10-21T15:00:00Z

Ms. Clark’s voice is rich, her phrasing unfussy, her jazz embellishments minimal. Music Review: Sharón Clark at the Metropolitan Room 2013-01-30T20:18:58Z

One way to think about jazz is as the sound of thoughts coming into being. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

In addition to socially conscious lyrics, A Tribe Called Quest was known for its innovative musical approach, including the layering of rhythms and its wide-ranging sampling from jazz and other forms of music. Malik Taylor, Phife Dawg of hip-hop’s influential A Tribe Called Quest, dies at 45 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

True to form, he organized a jazz festival on the grounds, with proceeds going to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, and a lineup featuring artists he supported over the years. Bruce Lundvall, Who Revived Blue Note, Dies at 79 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

A jazz pianist, writer and mother several times over, Ms. Eliot is a fixture of Sugar Hill, her Harlem neighborhood. Things to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

On Friday, the group returned to the Joyce Theater, lighting up the stage with a winning mix of discipline and courage, as they explored ballet, modern dance, tap and jazz. Review: Kids Dance Puts on a Show of Courage, Discipline and Heart 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z

Instead they look to make particular sounds—bending notes and creating unusual timbres—which is a consequence of the heavy African influence on jazz. Steps to heaven 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Coryell remained creatively restless over the past three decades, reinventing himself through periods immersed in bebop and smooth jazz. Larry Coryell, dazzling guitarist who brought rock energy to jazz, dies at 73 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

Blake’s jazz songs and fast syncopation “altered the form” of the early American musical, Wolfe explained, as it introduced African American idioms to Broadway. George C. Wolfe: A theater man on a mission to do a forgotten show justice 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

The jazz quartet occupied one side of the stage, and the Knights, a New York chamber orchestra, took up the other, with Dan Coleman at the conductor’s podium. Music Review: Joshua Redman at Town Hall 2013-06-06T21:53:18Z

Estrada’s fascination with jazz eventually brought her to the nearby city of Xalapa, where she studied in a university jazz conservatory while she was still in high school. Silvana Estrada Arrives With a Devastating Album About Heartbreak 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

The performance will be filmed today specifically for the Barco format, the day before Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett’s "Cheek to Cheek" album of jazz and popular standards is set to release worldwide. Barco Escape to show Lady Gaga, Tony Bennett concert in theaters 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

Chazelle “has an aficionado’s ear for jazz and an offbeat sense of genre,” A. O. Scott wrote in his review of the film for The Times. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Puffs’ and ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

If you’re going to improvise in jazz, your knowledge of harmony and theory has to be even deeper than that of a classical player. ‘Color of Water’ author, James McBride, reflects on race, politics and his new book 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

The Icarus-like rise and fall of Ron Free, a jazz drummer from the South, is largely related by Mr. Free himself. Review: ‘The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith’ 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Funny too that jazz stayed patriarchal and shunned women long after its child, rock and roll, let women do whatever they wanted to do. For Women in Jazz, a Year of Reckoning and Recognition 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Gruntz, who has died aged 80, was one of the few internationally acclaimed Swiss-born jazz musicians, and had an unusually broad vision. George Gruntz obituary 2013-01-21T13:41:05Z

When Rushing wasn't playing classical music, he was reveling in rock, jazz, blues, you name it. Epilogue: Music could not save Aaron Rushing 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

At its end, we see a photo shoot at Garfield High School with dozens of musicians, reminiscent of the famous 1958 reunion photo of jazz musicians, "A Great Day in Harlem." Locally made documentaries showcased at Seattle International Film Festival 2010-05-12T23:40:00Z

Legend inaugurated the monthly Focus Music project with a licensed playlist of mellifluous jazz tracks. Meditation Apps Want Us to Chill Out. Musicians Are Happy to Help. 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

It’s now well understood that any relevant jazz group is more than the sum of its solos. Music Review: Jazz Gallery All-Stars in a Solo Relay at Symphony Space 2010-06-20T21:32:00Z

In the Lindy Hop, solo jazz and house scenes, as well as the wider circles of street and club dance, this Barnes effect is well-known. From the Lindy Hop to Hip-Hop in One Improvising Body 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

“It always interested me, this connection between jazz and classical: where the line starts to blur, and how different and similar they are,” Mr. Gerstein said. Music: Kirill Gerstein Balances Classical Music and Jazz 2012-04-13T20:24:11Z

As is usually the case with jazz singing, the fewer frills the better. Music Review: A Singer?s Tribute to Lena Horne, Her Regal and Daunting Role Model 2011-05-12T21:12:39Z

Even so, she's now positioned to bring jazz to young, pop audiences that otherwise might never encounter it. Spalding wins a big one for jazz 2011-02-14T14:56:00Z

Was it because of the songs themselves or because he felt liberated from his function as a jazz singer? Music Review: Sachal Vasandani?s Flexible Tradition at Joe?s Pub 2010-06-04T22:06:00Z

Badu, who was dubbed the "Queen of Neo-Soul" in the 1990s and who draws on jazz and hip-hop influences, said the song was about "liberating yourself from layers and layers of skin or demons." Singer Badu causes stir with nude video at JFK site 2010-03-30T19:19:00Z

"I'm jazzed about hosting the awards," said Levi earlier this week during a break from filming on the "Chuck" set. Levi jazzed to host Spike Video Game Awards 2011-12-10T11:59:22Z

He came to Richardson Auditorium, and he was playing with a jazz, harmonic vocabulary but with a pop sensibility. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z

Recorded in New York, Paris and London, the album is on a label famous for jazz, but this isn’t jazz: no solos. Pop: José James’s ‘No Beginning No End’ 2013-01-18T23:37:45Z

Born in Queens, he danced as a child, learning tap and jazz, attending the School of the Performing Arts and landing roles in musical theater. These 18 movie stars are also amazing dancers. That’s their real superpower. 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

Even today, the old personality of Au Lapin Agile survives, with jazz or blues jam sessions taking over the basement most nights. The back streets of Bohemian Montmartre 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

Today, Sibiu is a festival hotspot, with a renowned theatre event in June, plus art, film, jazz, rock and other festivals. 10 smaller European Capitals of Culture you may not have heard of 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

Early influences included Bach and Debussy — whom he once called “the door to all 20th century music” — and he discovered modern jazz as he fell in with a crowd of hipster rebels as a teenager. Ryuichi Sakamoto, Oscar-Winning Japanese Composer, Dies at 71 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

He professed to love jazz, but it was only the atmosphere he liked — he detested the music. Books of The Times: Norris Church Mailer?s New Memoir, ?Ticket to the Circus? 2010-04-06T23:29:00Z

It is considered the highest honor for an American jazz musician, and until then it had been awarded only on an individual basis. Ellis Marsalis, Jazz Pianist and Music Family Patriarch, Dies at 85 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

Ms. Feiffer pared the manuscript to manageable proportions, jazzed up the title from “The Hype” to “Mommie Dearest” and was rewarded with a fur coat by her boss, Lawrence Hughes. Judy Feiffer, Who Helped Develop Two Top Memoirs, Dies at 87 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

But while people were clearly enjoying themselves, they were sitting politely and clapping in all the right places — a run-of-the-mill jazz crowd. Pedrito Martinez gets Kennedy Center crowd’s appreciation to appear in its feet 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

Maneri is an expressive microtonal player fascinated by the spaces between western music's usual pitches, and he seamlessly segues jazz phrasing with the delicacies of chamber music. A$AP Rocky, Rokia Traoré, The Handsome Family: this week's new live music 2013-05-18T05:00:11Z

Northwest Record and CD Show: Records, LPs, 45s, CDs and DVDs including R&B, jazz, rock 'n' roll, blues, country, hip-hop, bluegrass, folk, punk and more from 50 vendors, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Weekend Preview: family-fun fest, record and CD show 2012-02-22T22:48:10Z

Even to a knowledgeable jazz fan, the depth of Mr. Graves’s inquiries would probably be a surprise. For Milford Graves, Jazz Innovation Is Only Part of the Alchemy 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

The president is a huge jazz fan, and his playlist includes "Lover Man" from Billie Holiday and "My Funny Valentine" from Miles Davis. Obama's summer playlist: A little pop to a little hip hop 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

But a decade-long effort to revitalize the city’s downtown has transformed this former jazz mecca, which straddles the Kansas-Missouri border, back into a culturally rich metropolis. The U.S. Issue: 36 Hours in Kansas City, Mo. 2010-05-13T19:19:00Z

He teamed up with the Mizell brothers to release "Black Byrd" in 1973, a blend of jazz, R&B and funk that became Blue Note's highest selling album at the time. Innovative jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd dies at 80 2013-02-11T18:58:08Z

It does something that jazz records used to do more: you might hear it, feel there’s really nothing to add, and decide not to listen to records — including this one — for, say, a week. Barbra Streisand’s ‘Partners’ Is a Duets Album 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

Suddenly became fashionable that winter for journalists to ask established jazz musicians what they thought of Mr. Coleman’s jolting music. Ornette Coleman, Jazz Innovator, Dies at 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

For Ms. Ikuta, 68, a former jazz pianist, creating glass sculptures is not unlike creating music, particularly the spontaneity of jazz. Rediscovering the Joy of Japanese Art in London 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

They tend to exhibit a superabundance of technique and core knowledge but a more deficient supply of the intangibles — what jazz partisans mean when they praise with the word “maturity.” Joey Alexander, an 11-Year-Old Jazz Sensation Who Hardly Clears the Piano’s Sightlines 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

Their typically ambitious set brimmed with winding, expansive, horn-spackled arrangements that touched on rock, hip-hop, Latin music, jazz and blues. Kids These Days rising fast 2011-09-21T05:37:00Z

It has long been the most prestigious honor available to a young jazz musician. Marquis Hill Wins the Thelonious Monk Competition 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

It’s a song he wrote for the late jazz singer Sarah Vaughan, though she never sang it. Perspective | Michael Tilson Thomas was once the ‘bad boy of classical music.’ Now, at 74, he still conducts with childlike delight. 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Haire hit the clubs, recording live performances from hybrid DJ/jazz ensembles around town. Seattle music’s champion of weird, Doug Haire, ends KEXP’s ‘Sonarchy’ 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

Trumpeter Douglas was on the road with jazz-funk pioneer Horace Silver in his youth, performed with greats such as Martial Solal, and dipped his toes in jazz, folk and world music. This week's new live music 2012-10-12T23:05:42Z

In 1952, after he had been recording 78-r.p.m. discs of local musicians and singers for several years, he attracted the attention of Alfred Lion of Blue Note Records, the leading jazz label of the day. Rudy Van Gelder, 91, Audio Engineer Who Helped Define Jazz Sound on Records, Dies 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Living at the Chelsea Hotel and working with the likes of Don Cherry, Archie Shepp and Max Roach, Mr. Ibrahim became a force on the jazz avant-garde, and adjacent to it. Abdullah Ibrahim: A Lifetime of Dreams and Resistance at the Piano 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

Throughout the smart, polished show, she maintained a comfortable rapport with her musicians, the fleet, airy jazz pianist Jon Weber, who took a couple of impressive solos, and the bassist Sean Smith. Music Review: Karen Oberlin Sings Loesser at the Oak Room 2010-06-10T22:18:00Z

Her career included 19 studio albums that pushed the boundaries between folk, jazz and pop. In second Honors this year, Kennedy Center to recognize Joni Mitchell, Bette Midler, Lorne Michaels, Berry Gordy and Justino Díaz 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z

New York City’s Woodlawn Cemetery is a mini-city of neighborhoods of the dead; The city’s great entrepreneurs are buried near each other, and the plots of jazz greats all share an avenue. Woodlawn Cemetery: Where the Rich and Famous Spend Eternity 2013-10-29T09:45:32Z

Similarly, the exhibition sets the viewer loose in the aesthetics of free jazz and Afrofuturism without mapping the politics. Ulysses Jenkins: Journeys of a Video Griot 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

Almost all jazz musicians face the daunting task of creating a unique voice while building on the formidable heritage of their instrument. ‘El Maquech’ Review: Big Sounds From a Small Group 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

So-called “free jazz” was one style of the music she never embraced, but the depths of Taylor’s talent and knowledge of musical traditions won her over. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

After a while, she got her own jam session, at Small’s jazz club in Greenwich Village. A Tap Dancer’s Place: After the Horn Player, Before the Drummer 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Living next to his family was the brother of Norman Granz, who owned the jazz label Clef Records and promoted concerts in the 1940s and ’50s. Mo Ostin, Music Powerhouse Who Put Artists First, Dies at 95 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z

Decades after hearing those words Mr. Allen, 44, is a well-established figure in jazz, performing around the world and recording prolifically — on tenor sax. Channeling a Bombshell, One Jazzy Note at a Time 2011-08-06T20:43:02Z

“We found out that private networks really matter in jazz,” Seerup said. Girls Are Outnumbered in Jazz. At This Summer Camp, They Run the Show. 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

He dated other women, including nude dancers and a jazz singer “who belted out Peggy Lee numbers late at night for my benefit — why Peggy Lee, I don’t know.” How Life as a Foreigner Helped Shape a Man of Letters 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

The last is a squat brick building on Norfolk Street once home to the club Tonic, a hub for free jazz and avant-garde music before it closed in 2008 because of rent arrears. A Walking Tour of Manhattan’s Rock ’n’ Roll Past: the 2000s 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

With such an emphasis on pursuing and refining an individual’s creative voice, jazz is mostly immune to any lingering fallout from Tuesday’s verdict. 'Blurred Lines' verdict: In jazz, the vibe is everything 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

“We did ballet, jazz, improvisations, we made performances,” Ms. De Keersmaeker recounted. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, the Passionate Formalist 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

It was also a good reminder that for someone like Mr. Cobb, jazz history isn’t a shapeless abstraction. Music Review: Jimmy Cobb Expands His Act at Village Vanguard 2013-08-22T21:37:37Z

With a dearth of new album releases around, the biggest climber was American jazz singer Gregory Porter with Liquid Spirit, which rose from 104 to 13. Mark Ronson continues chart reign 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

Mr. McBride said the campers and their families would be a dominant part of the audience for the festival, but just about anyone with an ear for jazz is welcome. | Montclair: After Youth Workshop, a Real Jazz Festival 2011-08-14T03:15:18Z

Sid Griffin: You know that famous photo of the jazz guys on the stoop in Harlem? The Paisley Underground: an oral history of Los Angeles's 1980s psychedelic explosion 2013-05-16T17:00:00Z

"It was the biggest crowd ever," said Wein, 86, who founded both the New Orleans and Newport jazz festivals. Tradition and sunshine close out Jazz Fest 2012-05-07T02:31:04Z

Mr. McCluskey, also 33, is a music teacher at Hebrew Language Academy Charter School in Mill Basin, Brooklyn, and a jazz pianist. Catherine Roosevelt, Seán McCluskey 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z

To watch her dance, especially to jazz music, is to watch historical distance collapse. From the Lindy Hop to Hip-Hop in One Improvising Body 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

I spoke with Renée about how Sophie starts out in a princessy place and then ends up in a potato sack — eventually, we tied ropes around it to jazz it up! The Stars of ‘The School for Good and Evil’ Share a Name. But That’s Not All. 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

Astaire is a master of tap and jazz. CIA agent turned comics writer Tom King on making art in the era of Trump's "absurdity" 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z

But the verbal inventiveness, a melange of jazz, Beckett and spoken word, was purely Parks' own. Suzan-Lori Parks moves a stage beyond race to get to our 'mythic or epic experience' in her plays 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

He’s one of the rare jazz composers who can load up a piece with rich harmony and real rhythmic pleasure, without feeling the need to tie things up neatly or deliver a clean payoff. Jazz and Opera Come Together in ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

British novelist Zadie Smith, who sang jazz before she began publishing fiction, provides a curious introduction to the book: a short story written from Holiday’s point of view. Billie Holiday as we’ve rarely seen her 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

They gave jazz to literature in that big meaningful heartfelt way that jazz can leave you uplifted when you hear it coming from another room in the house. Sonny Mehta, a publishing industry titan, made his mark 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

This Columbia City outpost has become the musical hub Seattle has needed forever, a place where distinctions like jazz, rock and “neo-folk” don’t mean a thing to the musicians, friends and families who mingle here. 5 Seattle favorites: Where to hear the music 2014-05-11T04:00:00Z

But as jazz critic Leonard Feather wrote in his Times review about the meeting of Bennett and Mehta: “If that summit ever took place, it was backstage over coffee.” Ageless at 90, Tony Bennett brings his eternal spring to Dudamel and the L.A. Phil 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z

"Jazz existed in Poland before World War II, can you imagine?" says Zygmunt Matynia, Polish consul general in Chicago and an avid jazz devotee. The sound of freedom 2011-02-28T15:18:33Z

It’s about reception, an inquiry into how the most reproduced images in jazz helped change general opinion about the music. Books of The Times: ?Blue Notes in Black and White? by Benjamin Cawthra - Review 2011-12-15T22:54:43Z

A just-assembled quartet toyed with the jazz standard “Cherokee,” volleying solos until the melody was barely discernable. The best jazz clubs in Paris 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Creativity, jazz and cocktails will mix at the Northwest African American Museum Thursday at a free ALL Out networking event. Creativity and community topic of free museum event 2010-07-28T22:22:00Z

The jazz critic Ted Gioia has a “tendency to exterminate rather than develop pop theories.” Touring American Pop Music by Way of the Writers Who Have Addressed It 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z

With his wife as lyricist, he wrote “The Real Ambassadors,” a jazz musical that dealt with race relations. Dave Brubeck, Jazz Musician, Dies at 91 2012-12-05T18:31:41Z

Mr. Metheny, 58, is a guitarist whose music has resonated broadly throughout jazz and instrumental pop, a dazzling virtuoso with a warm human touch. A Word With: Pat Metheny and John Zorn: A Word With: Pat Metheny and John Zorn 2013-05-19T21:41:39Z

Mr. Belden released a series of albums that turned the music of Puccini, Prince, Sting, Carole King and the Beatles into jazz. Bob Belden dies at 58; jazz musician shared three Grammys 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

From moment to moment, these whirling, airborne arrangements call to mind the jazz bandleader Maria Schneider, the modernist composer Benjamin Britten and the maximalist film scorer Hans Zimmer. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

The list of important musicians with whom Mr. Hall worked was enough to earn him a place in jazz history. Jim Hall, Jazz Guitarist, Dies at 83 2013-12-11T03:50:57Z

Strings of solos, in current jazz, sound old-fashioned. Music Review: Jazz Gallery All-Stars in a Solo Relay at Symphony Space 2010-06-20T21:32:00Z

Bill Frisell receives massive award Seattle jazz guitarist Bill Frisell has received a Doris Duke Arts Award, a new prize from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation that went to 21 artists Thursday. Bill Frisell receives massive award 2012-04-20T18:27:03Z

Meantime, our contemporary mania for abbreviated text updates—think Twitter, Facebook, and BlackBerrys—feels as if it stands in direct opposition to jazz's deliberate, instrumental abstractions. 2009-12-10T17:54:00Z

Catherine Russell sprinkled pungent jazz spices on “You Go to My Head” and “Steppin’ Out With My Baby.” Music Review: New York Cabaret Convention at Rose Theater, Lincoln Center 2012-10-18T21:53:33Z

In his later years, he toured with Ringo Starr's All Starr Band, and released an album of jazz piano compositions in 1995. Jack Bruce, Cream bassist, dies at 71 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

When the jazz pianist Chick Corea celebrates a milestone birthday, he doesn’t hold back. Chick Corea’s 75th Birthday Celebration Will Make Music for Months 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

Each generation, young jazz musicians set about to reshape their inheritance, defining how the music’s main values can coexist in their historical moment. How the Vibraphonist Joel Ross Keeps Finding Fresh Rhythms 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

Chuck Berry was to rock music what Louis Armstrong was to jazz—a foundational figure; if not quite singular, then as close as it gets. Remembering Chuck Berry, Who Died at Ninety 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

The Royal Room is not a jazz club. Eclectic music venue opens in Columbia City 2011-12-21T04:25:35Z

Homage is paid to the influences and achievements of the great figures of jazz — especially Louis Armstrong, whose career, says Mr. Hughes, “is almost the whole story of orchestral jazz in America.” When William Faulkner and Langston Hughes Wrote Children’s Books 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

In their first set all three musicians expressed what felt like an equal stake in the songs, and an aversion to the common hierarchy of a jazz guitar trio. Music Review: At Jazz Standard, Steve Cardenas?s Flinty Spine 2010-06-02T21:55:00Z

During the month, the jazz pianist is performing in 10 different ensembles with nearly 30 musicians. Jazz pianist Chick Corea celebrating at Blue Note 2011-11-04T21:19:07Z

With that group, she sang hard-driving ditties and romantic numbers for dancers and radio listeners, in the era when jazz was pop music. The Special Place Where Ella Fitzgerald Comes Alive 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

During World War II, Mr. Brubeck was pulled from the ranks of an infantry unit by an Army colonel, who asked him to start a jazz band to entertain troops on the front lines. Jazz legend Dave Brubeck dies at 91 2012-12-06T03:26:03Z

“I had no rulebook to go by. I knew it had to be something unique, that no jazz fan had ever been exposed to.” George Wein, Newport Jazz Festival co-founder, dies at 95 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

It will definitely be used in the classroom, and it works very nicely for anyone as an introduction to jazz, in all its variegated glory. Welcome new Smithsonian jazz anthology, chosen by committee 2011-07-20T20:19:04Z

He began working with older masters such as the trumpeter Freddie Hubbard but had to contend with the hazing that was then a rite of passage within jazz. Christian McBride, Revered in Jazz, Is Playing the Long Game 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z

But a few years after that Ray Charles released a cover that was an intersection of jazz, soul, and country. Bob Dylan’s Sinatra Album 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

As for racist language, Reed was a student of jazz and soul who campaigned against apartheid. Who Was the Real Lou Reed? 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z

His interest in classical music, he added, “inhibited my jazz playing a great deal” early in his career: “I was very stiff.” Joe Wilder, Horn Player, Dies at 92; Elegance Was His Theme Song 2014-05-10T00:40:17Z

In an email interview, Terry said the reason he mentored jazz artists was simple. Fate has a starring role in 'Keep On Keepin' On' 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

The choice to play jazz—once considered the music of the enemy—can relegate you to the margins of Cuba’s musical bureaucracy. A New Vanguard of Women in Cuban Jazz 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

A puckish act of appropriation, “Blue” met with every sort of disapproval: Some in the jazz fold cried sacrilege, others attacked the concept, and still others nitpicked the execution. Jazz’s Year of Complaint, Citing ‘Whiplash’ and The New Yorker 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

Ligeti was inspired by Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, jazz and the complex polyphony of sub-Saharan African music while writing his series of rhythmically complicated and virtuosic character pieces. Taka Kigawa, Ligeti in Mind, Returns to Le Poisson Rouge 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

What this means is that there will be a place where the culture of jazz can be celebrated and encouraged forward. A jazz nexus takes shape in San Francisco 2011-05-16T14:01:03Z

By the time she was 11, she was writing songs on piano, and drawing inspiration from her father’s record collection, which included Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell, and lots of African music and jazz. Emeli Sande a neuroscientist with pop-star talent 2012-05-16T22:35:00Z

“Coming Through Slaughter,” a short novel by Michael Ondaatje about the insane jazz genius Buddy Bolden. Ottessa Moshfegh: By the Book 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

Jazz & Colors, which has twice presented a bounty of jazz ensembles at picturesque locations all over Central Park, will return this year. Jazz & Colors Will Head Indoors, to the Met 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

On this week’s Popcast, a conversation about jazz’s rites of passage, the ways in which freedom is expressed even amid convention, and artists who are agitating against history. Jazz’s Year of Reckoning With Tradition 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

Dave Frishberg, the jazz songwriter whose sardonic wit as a lyricist and melodic cleverness as a composer placed him in the top echelon of his craft, died on Wednesday in Portland, Ore. He was 88. Dave Frishberg, Writer of Songs Sardonic and Nostalgic, Dies at 88 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

The New Orleans-born trumpeter is one of the most intriguing young minds in jazz as he combines a distinct playing style with dizzying polyrhythms. The best concerts of summer 2019 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

The Way I Feel, a scaled-down, finger-snapping blues tune is a beauty, and when she gets her jazz groove on in Bimpé and Be My Man, you wish the songs would never end. Asa: Beautiful Imperfection - review 2011-03-31T21:40:01Z

The work is one of several jazz-influenced scores that Ravel composed in the 1920s, impressed by the African-American jazz bands he heard in Paris. Music Review | Joshua Bell and Jeremy Denk: Inflections: Proustian and Jazzy 2010-02-25T22:01:00Z

It’s part of her continuing experiment with blending hypercontemporary jazz strategies and traditional music from the South Asian subcontinent. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

A debate arose in jazz circles over the entitlements of such a group, what it meant and whether it deserved what it got. Music Review: Together for 10 Years and Still Totally Committed 2010-09-17T20:08:00Z

But over the past 45 years, access to quality education has become only more divided by class and race, which also plays out in jazz. Creative Music Studio Changes Hands at a Critical Moment for Jazz 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z

When we stopped at the Sock Shack to buy a birthday present for our niece, we asked the clerk for directions to our final stop: the jazz session our chance acquaintance had recommended. Would going off Google make for a better vacation? We tried it for a day. 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

Wendell Pierce, a New Orleans native who plays a jazz musician on the show, said even he didn't know much about the Mardi Gras Indian culture until later in life. Mardi Gras Indians on display at Jazz Fest 2012-05-04T15:13:40Z

The day concludes at 1 p.m., back on the Hearst Plaza, with Soul Science Lab, whose experiments in jazz, funk and hip-hop encourage the audience to join the dancing and singing. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

But they came soon after, bringing bits of blues, jazz, country and rock. The town that produced musical legends keeps staying in the groove 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

“Even at an HBCU,” Atwater says wryly, “if you were caught in the practice room playing jazz, your professor went nuts.” Perspective | The Soulful Symphony reinvents itself, elevating music’s American roots 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

The foundation for it all is Bootsy's rubbery, still-futuristic bass playing, and no matter what the style — jazz, psychedelia, bedroom ballads — the groove is always there. Bootsy Collins keeps the funk alive 2011-06-09T15:44:04Z

Like Ray Charles, his contemporary and in some ways his only equal, who was similarly addicted to playing with a big band, King had a lot of forties jazz mixed into his sharecropper soul. B. B. King’s Inimitable Sound 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Why are jazz apprenticeships so vital in the first place? Pop: Jazz and Its Changing Apprenticeship Systems 2012-07-20T17:21:28Z

The recipients are being recognized for their lifetime achievements and significant contributions to the development and performance of jazz. ArtsBeat: National Endowment Names 4 Jazz Masters for 2013 2012-07-18T17:09:18Z

Unlike her compositions — a lovable admixture of American folk songs, avant-garde jazz, soft rock and Romanticism — Bley, at age 82, remains a rather inaccessible figure. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

The label’s catalog includes jazz, avant-garde electronica and American folk, featuring emerging artists and archive sessions from the BBC vaults or other sources. Listening Clubs Tantalize Audiophiles in London 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

As a season progresses, they too progress, with a freedom from text that resembles and probably surpasses that of jazz. 2010-01-12T07:42:00Z

Next, Moran gradually introduced the local musicians who constitute the Bohemian Caverns All-Stars, drawn from regular players at the U Street jazz club. A night of ‘Jason+’ includes Mason Bates and jazz stars 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

One hears a broad swath of jazz history in her playing: boogie-woogie, swing, big-band riffs, subtle chromaticism in her left-hand chords when the band settles into a more modern trio format. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

Live jazz is played nightly from 6 to 8. Handy Liquor Bar in SoHo 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

In it, I’m improvising on the raga Malkauns, but within the form of “Summertime,” an early kind of jazz composition based on the blues. With Open Ears, Indian Ragas and Western Melodies Merge 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

If the post-bop era of the nineteen-sixties is the site of modern jazz classicism, it’s due, of course, to the historic artistry of the musicians themselves. Postscript: Rudy Van Gelder (1924-2016), Modern Jazz’s Listener of Genius 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

The shocker, though, was that the affair had been going on for a year: a year during which he experienced his first taste of pot and gone to his first jazz concert while high. Modern Love: Modern Love — Learning to Love Again After the Affair 2012-11-23T18:00:20Z

Serious jazz on the steel pan — jazz imbued with the historical vocabulary of swing, bebop and the blues, and not, as Provost puts it, simply “improvised music” — may not be crazy. In Victor Provost’s hands, the steel pan becomes a mesmerizing ride 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

He found work as a darkroom technician at a news agency and began taking pictures of jazz artists on tour. Charles Gatewood, Photographer of Extremes, Dies at 73 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

The performance was the opening salvo of Ms. Carroll’s seventh season of Sunday jazz brunch concerts in the Oak Room. | Barbara Carroll: A Swinging, Sophisticated New York 2010-09-20T20:38:00Z

Allen’s drumming was a key part of the rhythmic structure that underpinned the fusion of jazz, funk and West African melodies. Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen dies aged 79 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

The most fundamental fact about jazz is that it’s made in communion, each player responding in real time, leading as well as following. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

In the 1940s jazz greats such as Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald graced its stage. Top 10 live music venues in Seattle 2013-05-24T23:10:00Z

“Mr,” with songwriting help from Rafael Casal, is a complex and fascinating collection of jazz, R&B and pop, featuring a vocalist able to purr one moment and soar the next. Broadway’s Leslie Odom Jr. shows off his songwriting skills 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

As a reflection of his musical eclecticism, his desk contained photos of jazz giants Charlie Parker and Miles Davis. Prince, mysterious, inventive chameleon of music, dies at 57 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

I’ve been reminded of that setup recently, whenever my thoughts turned to the past year in jazz. Jazz’s Year of Complaint, Citing ‘Whiplash’ and The New Yorker 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

Unlike the album, this was a balance of Metheny material and the jazz tradition. Pat Metheny Unity Band – review 2012-07-10T17:00:01Z

Murray and Crouch lived in an apartment on the Bowery, above the Tin Palace jazz club, and they hosted poetry readings and salons and concerts. David Murray: A jazz innovator leads from the center to the edge 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

During the pandemic, Marshall started to embrace improvisation; he also found himself drawn to jazz, which led him to think about the role improvisation plays in Black art. A Choreographer Finds His Way, Getting Lost in the Stars 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

Musicologically, they're as far from his notion of jazz as, say, heavy metal. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis – review 2012-07-11T11:41:33Z

It’s no longer a secret that New York jazz in the 21st century would be unrecognizable without the contributions of musicians from Houston. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

Before Mr. Cook, Ms. Walker briefly dated a jazz musician in Chicago. A Union Built in and on Stages 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

The white-tiled dining room is on the ground floor of the Standard, a mint-green Art Deco building that was recently transformed into a dining-and-music destination containing two other restaurants and a jazz club. 36 Hours in Copenhagen 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

This September, audiences will at last possess a more dynamic, more elegant — and just plain improved — sense of how New York City’s jazz and classical scenes converged in the 1940s. Jazz and Classical Met in the 1940s, and We’re Still Catching Up 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z

Their songbook includes many items from Reinhardt’s repertoire, as well as originals by the group’s own band members inspired by the broader field of early 20th-century jazz. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

But she's best known for intricate, harmonically lustrous music for orthodox jazz orchestras in which rich chords, lopsided tangos, thumping swing and a good deal of sidelong irony coexist. 50 great moments in jazz: Carla Bley's Escalator Over the Hill 2011-01-18T13:06:04Z

He worked with the producer Bill Laswell on funk, jazz, African and avant-garde music, and with the bassist and songwriter Jack Bruce of Cream. Bernie Worrell, Whose Keyboards Left an Imprint on Funk and Hip-Hop, Dies at 72 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Cook, 28, is a jazz musician, an alto saxophonist and vocalist, who is based in New York. A Good Combo for This Jazz Musician 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z

The photograph was printed on a postcard by O'Neil's Photographs of Wisconsin, US, but was probably taken in Montreal where Frank played in jazz bands through the 1940s, 50s and early 60s. Family life 2012-07-20T23:05:04Z

Fitzgerald walked the fine line between being understood as a jazz artist and an entertainer. Behind Ella Fitzgerald’s flirtation with reefer songs 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z

We stood in the road, and my father talked about jazz, Claudia Rankine on the Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

If anything, Chinen’s “Playing Changes,” makes the case that, as “a frontier of inquiry,” today’s jazz music is probably as lovely, lousy, brilliant and broken as it’s ever been. Review | How the Internet transformed contemporary jazz 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

Pulitzer juries in the past decade have typically comprised a mix of classical and jazz musicians, critics, academics and arts administrators. A Year After Kendrick Lamar, Will the Music Pulitzer Embrace Pop? 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

We see megachurches with immense congregations and charismatic preachers and singers for whom singing and speaking often merge, while music slides from gospel to blues to jazz to rock. Arthur Jafa’s Profound Meditations on Black America 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

Since then, he’s looked both forward and backward, whether playing solo or collaborating with jazz, rock, electronic or African-folk musicians. Herbie Hancock stretches out and enjoys the jams at Kennedy Center 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z

Still, Armstrong emerges as much more than a jazz artist. Theater Review: ‘Louis Armstrong,’ From Making Books Sing 2012-11-07T21:30:50Z

In those years, upright citizens were inclined to think jazz disreputable, scarcely fit for nightclubs, much less for an institution of higher learning. Leon Breeden, Jazz Educator, Dies at 88 2010-08-14T04:45:00Z

Good leadership in jazz is hard to quantify, but you know it when you see it — you can usually sense, in a musician’s judgment and yield and carriage, that some higher instinct has been activated. Sean Jones Quartet at the Jazz Standard 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

Not so when you’re from New Orleans, home of jazz, Mardi Gras and the second line. Perspective | A love letter to Houston: What outsiders don’t get about my home town. 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wilder attended Mastbaum Technical High School, which was known for its strong music program but, like most programs at the time, did not teach jazz. Joe Wilder, Horn Player, Dies at 92; Elegance Was His Theme Song 2014-05-10T00:40:17Z

A colleague of mine that I worked with on “Jack Ryan,” Wendell Pierce — we share a really strong love and respect for jazz music, and I get that from my father as well. Jovan Adepo Pushes Through With Rachmaninoff and ‘Love Island’ 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z

Suzan-Lori Parks’s jazz fugue of a play, which closes on Dec. 18, presents a haunting, sepulchral parade of images that have distorted and swallowed up the history of African-Americans. 10 Things to Do Now in NYC 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

The whole notion of jazz being the more intellectual music is not really true... Kamasi Washington expands jazz's boundaries on new album 'The Epic'

"When people hear it they immediately connect, even unconsciously... with popular music, whether it's blues, or R&B, or jazz. It's almost impossible to divorce one's awareness of the sax sound." Classical Saxophone in Proms spotlight 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

And jazz pianist Chick Corea has four nominations this year in the jazz, Latin jazz and classical categories. Grammy facts: Blurred genre lines and a retiree revolution 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

This sophisticated venue is a long way from the private jazz club launched in Baker's Eastside basement nearly 15 years ago. Bake's bops into Bellevue, blowing changes in the kitchen 2012-08-16T20:54:04Z

The Emerald City boasts a strong if unheralded female jazz contingent. Two jazz piano greats and a women’s jazz festival 2013-04-25T22:06:43Z

The cars are part of BMW Group's cultural programs arm, which works in contemporary art, architecture and design, classical music and jazz. 2010-02-12T23:50:00Z

That performer, seen on Sunday afternoon at 54 Below, was the elegant jazz pianist and singer Barbara Carroll. Music Review: Barbara Carroll at 54 Below 2012-09-10T23:43:30Z

Mr. Hutcherson’s career took flight in the early 1960s, as jazz was slipping free of the complex harmonic and rhythmic designs of bebop. Bobby Hutcherson, Vibraphonist With Coloristic Range of Sound, Dies at 75 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

Almost every small girl goes through a jazz hands stage, when all she wants to do is put on performances and formation dance in a frou-frou frock. Viva Forever! – review 2012-12-16T00:05:46Z

In his “Fiddler” choreography, hands are again prominent — fingers splayed not openly, as in the “jazz hands” of Broadway convention, but twisted. In ‘Fiddler,’ a Balancing Act to Rival Tevye’s 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

There was more jazz with La Fosse and Reeder’s “Ad Lib City,” a zingy ballet — the best new work of the night — set to Duke Ellington. Review: Kids Dance Puts on a Show of Courage, Discipline and Heart 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z

Noted for an eclectic approach that was at once colorful, powerful and also cool and melodic, Hutcherson came of age musically as jazz was moving into a cerebral, more avant-garde era that matched his playing. Brilliant, inventive jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson dies 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

Saxophonist Archie Shepp is acclaimed both for his work on the bandstand and in the classroom; his passionate studies of Afrocentric music helped bring those traditions into American jazz and music education. NEA Honors Three Musicians and One Advocate With Jazz Masters Awards 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

He has been working this way more or less since the 1960s, reshaping jazz’s rhythmic syntax while engaging with its lineage. Andrew Cyrille’s Late-Career Renaissance 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

The first of its kind, Mr. Okazaki’s release sent a stir of excitement through the jazz world. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

Yet he was preeminently a jazz musician; and it was the notes, not the instrument, that counted — his harmonica, he liked to say, “could be a broomstick or a tuba.” ‘Toots’ Thielemans, master of the jazz harmonica, dies at 94 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

His obligation to tradition can only come from someone acutely aware of their place in a deeper slipstream of funk, jazz, yacht rock and soul. Think there can’t be a jazz-funk fusion superstar in 2020? Then you don’t know Thundercat. 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

And yet there he was, the 87-year-old jazz legend smiling and holding a guitar above a tale of medical and financial disaster. ‘To think it has come to this’: Kenny Burrell’s journey from jazz legend to GoFundMe appeal 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

Rust never went quite so far in his writings, but his instinctive preference was generally for white jazz, and even that only up to a point. Brian Rust obituary 2011-03-31T17:21:39Z

And her self-released album, “Thirsty Ghost,” was also nominated for best jazz vocal album. Seattle’s jazz scene spawned a number of this year’s Grammy nominees 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

At the time, Ms. Burems was working as an herbalist, a jazz singer and a doula. For These New York Farmers, Harvest Time Means High Times 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z

While azmaris are traditional here, jazz instruments first made their way to Ethiopia through a surprising route early in the 20th century. In Ethiopia’s Capital, a Resurgent Jazz Scene 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

After a lengthy, spacious piece that was as much contemporary classical as jazz avant-garde, Kouaté stepped up to steal the spotlight. Review | The Art Ensemble of Chicago’s Kennedy Center concert was both liberated and liberating 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z

Ms. Cortez’s work was beyond category by virtue of embodying so many categories simultaneously: written verse, African and African-American oral tradition, the discourse of political protest, and jazz and blues. Jayne Cortez, Poet and Performance Artist, Dies at 78 2013-01-04T01:23:58Z

In 2005, while starring in the off-Broadway comedy "Modern Orthodox," she got inspired to sing jazz when she met her "perfect collaborator" at a cast party. Molly Ringwald rediscovers her jazz roots 2013-04-18T16:01:04Z

In this concert, children will learn how emotion infuses jazz, whether it’s the ache of the blues or the vivacity of swing. Spare Times for Children Listings for July 15-21 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

A number of grants were awarded to summer seminars, institutes and workshops at schools, while others went toward long-term preservation projects, like one for Preservation Hall’s archives of jazz memorabilia in New Orleans. National Endowment for the Humanities Announces New Grants 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

She also studied tap and jazz dance, disciplines that contributed to the athleticism of her performances. Maralin Niska, Lyric Soprano at New York City Opera Who Won Hearts, Dies at 89 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

Robertson was Canadian, and yet his exploration of America's diverse musical terrain – rock and roll, gospel, blues, country, jazz – emerged as one of the most definitive. How Robbie Robertson's hidden Indigenous and Jewish heritage influenced The Band's mournful songs 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z

It’s inviting but uncompromising, sophisticated yet playful, the sound of a neighborhood jazz club with an international reputation. Smoke Rises: A Jazz Room Returns on the Upper West Side 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

In the '80s, Mr. Bannister taught jazz history at the University of Washington's Experimental College. Gary Bannister of Jazz Alley and Earshot Jazz dies at 61 2010-10-22T17:37:00Z

“Now jazz jumps up like Lazarus, if we allow it, to rediscover itself as a living music.” Best Jazz Albums of 2022 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

The album, eventually released by Blue Note, spotlights his songwriting skills and a unique musical persona that comfortably navigates between neo-soul, R&B, hip-hop and jazz. Review: James delivers on 'No Beginning No End' 2013-01-22T19:19:10Z

The saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings, who was born in England and raised in Barbados, has become a young pacesetter on the London jazz scene. Preview NYC Winter Jazzfest in 7 Tracks 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

The collective comprises 14 instrumentalists and vocalists and is working to ensure that predatory and sexist behavior is seen as aberrant, not as part of the cost of doing business in jazz. Women Fighting Sexism in Jazz Have a Voice. And Now, a Code of Conduct. 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

“There is no jazz,” Mr. O’Farrill declared onstage, with his usual enthusiasm. Music Review: Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra at Symphony Space - Review 2012-01-22T23:03:12Z

Finally, there is more silent film, showing jazz musicians, lindy-hoppers, people clapping happily – and we begin, happily, to sense that miraculous synergy between music, our bodies and our being. Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet – review 2012-10-12T11:23:48Z

A stroke the same year left him disabled, but he continued to front his occasional big band and to act as a cheerleader for jazz in his native city. Buddy Collette obituary 2010-10-06T17:06:00Z

That is the story “La La Land” would like to tell — that jazz can be an aphrodisiac, or rebellion, or thrill. ‘La La Land’ Is Stuck in Its Own Time 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

There’s an African-American jazz musician and a French Jew who became a Muslim and claims to be a surgeon. Katarzyna Kozyra: ‘Looking for Jesus’ 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

She sang everything from jazz to opera and she was really the one that lit the torch for everybody. Rap legend Rakim opens up about finding his unique, intellectual sound and transforming hip-hop 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

She had a reputation for jazzing up the traditional folk tunes. Beryl Marriott obituary 2010-08-16T17:27:00Z

For Museum of Negro Leagues, a Big Opportunity Museums about the Negro Leagues and American jazz look to this summer’s All-Star Game for an infusion of interest. Museums: Special Section: 2012-03-15T00:19:58Z

Country and jazz festivals are most likely, as multi-day rock and pop events outside of Rock in Rio will be off-limits. Taylor Swift, Metallica, No Doubt lead Rock in Rio USA lineup 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Jared Grimes unites tap, hip-hop and street jazz in “Dancing the Tap.” The Week Ahead: Sept. 23 — 29 2012-09-23T08:00:05Z

From second album The Downward Spiral, March of the Pigs brings together industrial rock influences and whimsical jazz piano. Nine Inch Nails: a beginner's guide 2013-07-08T13:52:00Z

“Beatrice,” a ballad from that album Mr. Rivers named after his wife, would become a jazz standard. Sam Rivers, Jazz Musician, Dies at 88 2011-12-28T00:24:59Z

Going on 60 years after his New York breakthrough, and now even with his departure, the world’s jazz community continues to make its way to him. Ornette Coleman’s music polarized jazz, then became part of its DNA 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

A local group pulsing with rockabilly, the exploratory sensibilities of jazz, and tender lyricism of country-folk, Birch Pereira and the Gin Joints offer a little something every listener. Seattle-area music-and-nightlife events July 27-Aug. 2: Willie Nelson & Family, Birch Pereira and the Gin Joints, and more 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

“His background was jazz, so his theory was, get the right mic on the finely tuned instrument and go with it.” Glen ‘Spot’ Lockett: The Punk Producer’s 10 Essential Recordings 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

From the age of 16, she began to channel her dynamism more towards dance, first studying jazz and tap. Step-by-step guide to dance: Deborah Colker 2010-04-14T10:14:00Z

At full strength 12 musicians stood onstage, jazz guys to the left, bluegrass to the right. Music Review: Bluegrass and Jazz Bands, With More in Common Than You?d Think 2011-07-24T22:29:53Z

"Paul was a perfectionist and worked every day to improve his art," jazz singer Lyn Stanley told the LA Times. Paul Smith, US jazz pianist dies 2013-07-03T09:57:39Z

He had directed the jazz musical It’s Trad, Dad and, for Shenson, Mouse on the Moon. Fifty Years Ago Today: The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

Apart from a wry, but affectionate deconstruction of “Easy” by the Commodores, Faith No More only became less accessible, even dabbling in jazz, making records that were often confounding — but never dull. The Week Ahead: June 27 ? July 3 2010-06-25T15:46:00Z

All told, he is one of today’s most faithful adherents to jazz tradition — even as he has crafted a sound unlike anything before. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

So far, visitors have voted about 700 times a day on the website, said Pierre-Louis, who fell in love with jazz as a listener after he moved to Seattle in 2004. First Inside/Out Jazz Awards born from within Seattle jazz community 2010-05-31T04:01:00Z

Early-’80s experimentalists, still inspired by free jazz and renegade factions in art, defended their right to feel that jazz couldn’t be reduced to essentials. Peter Bernstein Quartet at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

That Mr. Collier attracts admirers from across so many genres is a testament to the uncategorizable nature of his music, which contains elements from jazz, folk, R&B and classical. The Colorful Mozart of Gen Z 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

With a French Quarter New Orleans vibe, the Jazz Walk offers 23 Northwest jazz acts in 10 venues, all in one night, attracting enthusiastic fans who crowd the sidewalks, trading tips and on-the-spot reviews. Forecast: warm weather, sizzling sounds at Ballard Jazz Festival 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

The basic idea is the crucial one: of all jazz singers, Holiday is the one who is a jazz musician, the equal in musical invention of the epoch-making instrumentalists who played alongside her. The Art of Billie Holiday’s Life 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

A fan of much music beyond the classical concert hall, he also took up jazz and rock, and was comfortable at the seat of a drum kit. A Conductor Who Knows His Way Around a Score, and a Farm 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

Baker’s short-lived Air Force band let him lead a rock big band of sorts, an ensemble that existed at the intersection of jazz, rock, prog, African music and more. Ginger Baker’s Essential Songs: Listen to 15 Tracks 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

Over the years, he held numerous high school and collegiate jazz clinics, hosted summer camps for musicians and was also an adjunct professor at William Paterson University in New Jersey. Jazz Trumpeter Clark Terry Dies at 94 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

Once on stage, Marsalis spoke of the link between Cuban habanera rhythms and turn-of-the-century New Orleans ragtime music, which was a precursor to modern jazz. Wynton Marsalis brings music, message to Cuba 2010-10-08T20:29:00Z

There also all those people who do jazz standards, which lends itself to growing older with grace. A Conversation with Bonnie Raitt 2013-10-11T09:45:43Z

For now, at least, the new OKeh will be explicitly a jazz label, and only dealing in new releases. ArtsBeat: A Historic Jazz Label Gets a New Life 2013-01-09T20:05:21Z

But where “Babylon” was a parody of 1970s melodramatic mini-series, “Dying” was a satire of a genre that never really existed: 1950s jazz noir. Where to Stream Michael K. Williams’s Best TV Performances 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lundvall, blithely ignoring that advice, brought his enthusiasms with him to Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, where he wrote about jazz for the college newspaper and hosted a weekly radio show. Bruce Lundvall Creates Sunrise Senior Living Jazz Festival 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

By and large, we are very different people, he and I. Will loves jazz and sports, in that order; I am highly averse to both, to the point of despair. It’s Us Against a Particle of Dust 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

In high school, he discovered jazz, however, and began learning by listening. Joel, Santana to receive Kennedy Center Honors 2013-09-12T16:31:51Z

If you are keen to get under the skin of Addis’s jazz scene, go to Fendika, the working man’s musical refuge. Notes from Ethiopia: the jazz revival in Addis Ababa 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

Like many other aspiring jazz modernists, he worked as a ship's musician as a way to get to New York to hear bebop innovators such as Charlie Parker. Harry Klein obituary 2010-08-04T17:08:00Z

An accomplished pianist, he had been playing in jazz groups and giving recitals when, in 1941, he began studying in New York and Philadelphia under Olga Samaroff, the ex-wife of Leopold Stokowski. Carlos Moseley, Former President and Chairman of New York Philharmonic, Dies at 98 2012-10-02T05:23:02Z

“I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it’s people’s ability to access it,” Ms. Spalding said. Esperanza Spalding on a Year in the Spotlight 2012-03-16T15:58:59Z

The first comprehensive anthology of Hurston’s nonfiction brings together previously published and new work, touching on everything from jazz to school integration. 16 New Books Coming in January 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

DeCarava’s musical portraiture is centered on the public performance of jazz in clubs and in concerts. A Blue Note Founder’s View of Jazz Music’s Private Side 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z

On any given night, live jazz options abound for nearly all preferences and budgets. Great Jazz on the Great Hill, and Club Fare in Harlem and the Village 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

“When I first started promoting shows, I had to learn how to promote specifically to the jazz heads and specifically to the hip-hop heads,” she said. Meghan Stabile, Who Linked Jazz and Hip-Hop, Dies at 39 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

Sitting on a couch under the gaze of two Haitian carnival masks, Mr. Rudd reflected on a musical path that took him from the staunchest jazz traditionalism to the height of revolutionary fervor. Roswell Rudd, in a Celebratory Mood, Reflects on His Winding Path 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

"He has always been a jazz obsessive," says the flautist Bobbi Humphrey, a friend of Wonder's since they were teenagers, and a guest on his 1976 album Songs in the Key of Life. Stevie Wonder: jammin' with the jazz set 2010-06-17T21:44:00Z

That may soon change: These shows will be recorded by Giant Step Arts, a nonprofit organization devoted to presenting new jazz works in concert and capturing those performances on record. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Inexplicably, he doesn't transform these tunes as thoroughly or as boldly as the art of jazz allows. Kurt Elling: The thrill is gone 2011-02-12T15:14:00Z

The intersection of Coltrane’s music and spirituality reflected her personal journey to a life driven by divine purpose and her role in birthing an idiom of liturgical jazz. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Alice Coltrane 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

But then I got into soul and jazz and started mixing that up with techno. Dance Supergroup Galantis: Why We Love When People Cry on the Dance Floor 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

He grew up playing timbales in Latin jazz and mambo bands, where the rhythmic complexity is greater and more gravity-defying than in standard jazz drumming. For Milford Graves, Jazz Innovation Is Only Part of the Alchemy 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Only the faintly niggling sensation of this being a classically authoritative Potter jazz set with some suitable concept-exotica embroidery blunts The Sirens' impact. Chris Potter: The Sirens – review 2013-02-07T23:30:01Z

A guitarist since she was about 18, she was mostly a blueswoman until she became smitten with the upbeat style of gypsy jazz and its swinging spirit. Creating Guitars for Gypsy Jazz 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

The incident led him to write “Deadmeat,” the fiercest track from his 2020 album, “Negro,” which scolded racism and police brutality through an aggressive mix of rap, punk and free jazz. Pink Siifu, a Shape-Shifting Musician With One Demand: Don’t Box Me In 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

He was host of a popular jazz show on National Public Radio, and he profiled musicians for CBS' Sunday Morning show. Billy Taylor, pianist and tireless promoter of jazz on radio and TV, dies in NYC at 89 2010-12-29T22:50:00Z

Lopukhov’s choreography was deemed vulgar, acrobatic and distorted; Shostakovich’s music, with its popular tunes and nods to jazz and the tango, corrupted by Western influence. ‘Bolt,’ at Gallery for Russian Arts and Design in London 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Now, The 71-year-old jazz pianist and composer is in the unusual position of competing against himself in two categories at the Feb. 10 awards show in Los Angeles. Corea competes against himself at Grammys 2013-02-02T14:28:14Z

But a law in Qatar forbidding nationals from entering venues serving alcohol meant she could not attend the club billed as the home of jazz in the Middle East. Qatar trims cultural plans as tradition and budget pressures weigh 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

It was like, a whole history of jazz. Cuba Journal: A Taste of Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and More 2010-10-06T21:07:00Z

With 3,000 musicians and entertainers in attendance from some 30 countries, the festival describes itself as "a massive compilation album with jazz at its very heart". Jazz moves to stay 'relevant' 2012-07-03T07:44:48Z

It wasn’t quite jazz, but it was the work of a fine vocal interpreter, putting a fresh spin on some of his most familiar material. Concert review: Neil Diamond at United Center 2012-07-07T05:45:00Z

When he was 15, his family moved to Los Angeles, where he discovered jazz and quickly began playing it, initially with a style derived from the bebop paragon Bud Powell. Don Friedman, Versatile Jazz Pianist, Dies at 81 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

And the rhythms: not showy but continually surprising, like jazz. Dance Review: Shantala Shivalingappa’s ‘Akasha’ Finds Physical Precision 2013-06-27T22:18:30Z

An annual jazz event, the Acacia festival, was launched. Swing State: Jazz-Mad Ethiopia Rejoices at a Musical Revival 2011-10-05T06:20:00Z

Last year was the moment Davis finally broke through, claiming her rightful place as the pianist of the moment in jazz — particularly thanks to the release of “Diatom Ribbons,” her latest album. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

Gitlis performed with the Rolling Stones and jazz stars, appeared on French television shows and founded a French music festival in the 1970s where listeners ate and slept in a field while listening to music. Ivry Gitlis, a violinist who spanned genres, dies at 98 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z

A blazing player whose personality was as big and effusive as her talents, Dorothy Donegan piled her mastery of classical, stride, boogie-woogie and modern jazz piano into boisterous, often ribald performances. 10 Women in Jazz Who Never Got Their Due 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

Her band played lean, percussive syncopations tinged with samba, jazz or Cape Verdean funaná; her voice, dusky and leisurely, glided over the bumpy rhythms with sultry aplomb, like a plush hovercraft. Music Review: Globalfest at Webster Hall - Review 2012-01-09T23:18:48Z

At the same instant, a jazz duo started playing, and the breeze picked up. In France, Narbonne takes a turn in the international spotlight 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

At last summer’s Salzburg Festival, her “Eleanor Suite” juxtaposed a blues singer and drum kit player with a contemporary classical ensemble to illustrate the social oppression of female African-American jazz musicians. Olga Neuwirth Maintains Eclectic Path in Her Music 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

And commercial genres gain in vitality and expressive force by learning from what jazz has to offer. ‘Heaven and Earth’ by Kamasi Washington Review: Musical Miracle Worker? 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

Everett, who grew up in Columbia, S.C., has done everything from studying Wittgenstein to performing jazz guitar, casting flies to castrating bulls. Percival Everett Has a Book or Three Coming Out 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z

He was prominent in New York’s No Wave and avant-garde jazz scenes of the 1980s; he played hard rock with Henry Rollins in the ’90s. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

Seb is obsessed with jazz—with classic jazz from, seemingly, the twenties through the fifties or early sixties. The Empty Exertions of “La La Land” 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

The idea of a recurring bass line — fundamental not just to jazz but to Western music since people first started writing down musical notes — is an obsessive motif of much of Davis’s work. Stuart Davis=jazz: An equation that doesn’t explain this chilly modern master 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Stanley himself has been loosely modelled on influential journalist Spike Hughes, an early champion of hot jazz. Dancing on the Edge: episode one 2013-02-04T22:30:01Z

Unlike most male jazz and pop singers, Mr. Murphy “doesn’t adopt the usual masculine poses,” Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times in 2005. Mark Murphy, an Unconventional Jazz Vocalist, Dies at 83 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

It also made the hunger for fresh talent onstage — long a trope of jazz consumerism — seem more apt, less despairing. Newport Jazz Festival Begins a New Era, With History as a Guide 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

I’ve been listening to blues and jazz since I was a teenager. Singer Imelda May on New Orleans: ‘It has magic and mystery and voodoo’ 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

The young nominees have already performed for a variety of jazz luminaries, and the semifinals will be at UCLA's Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, Nov. 8 and are free and open to the public. Thelonious Monk Competition, gala returns to L.A. in November 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

“He made jazz accessible and meaningful to several generations.” David Baker, jazz scholar, composer and conductor, dies at 84 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

Asking me repeatedly to go to a jazz concert after my telling her I'm not into jazz. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: What to say to an overbearing friend — besides goodbye 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

His approach on the set was like that of a jazz bandleader seeking to harness and ride raw inspiration, to capture lightning in a bottle—a framework that dared his cast toward spontaneity and serendipity. What “M*A*S*H” Taught Us 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z

On Sunday nights, when the house band plays jazz at the Ear Inn, a bar over by the Hudson River on Spring Street, the whole building shakes. The 200-Year-Old Bar Beloved by Book Editors and Longshoremen 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

Look no further than the final song, a five-minute instrumental called “Us,” which boasts smoky saxophone, mournful and thundering percussion, and a sound somewhere between abstract jazz and sultry electronica. Britt Daniel on Spoon’s new album, Prince and a quarter century of indie life 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z

The New York Times needs to spend more time reviewing exciting jazz performnances and recordings and less time writing about this silly squabbling. For Women in Jazz, a Year of Reckoning and Recognition 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

He didn’t entirely see himself as a jazz musician either. Paul Smith, Jazz Pianist, Is Dead at 91 2013-07-03T23:57:46Z

He’s synthesized loads of the literature and argument around jazz, and he builds particularly on recent works of historiography. Books of The Times: ?Blue Notes in Black and White? by Benjamin Cawthra - Review 2011-12-15T22:54:43Z

Stanley Crouch, writing in this magazine, suggested that, in 1962, Rollins was seen as “a standard-bearer of convention, and perhaps as the only one who could save jazz.” A Quest to Rename the Williamsburg Bridge for Sonny Rollins 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

His classic quartet — one of the most revered groups in the history of jazz — was still intact, but he had taken to attacking its equilibrium, infusing it constantly with fresh blood. What a Rare, Live ‘A Love Supreme’ Reveals About John Coltrane 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

Even before the pandemic, the beloved haunt known for hosting improvisational jazz jams, dubbed the Racer Sessions, was on “life support,” as one crowdfunding campaign described it. Cafe Racer reemerges on Capitol Hill, grunge vet hits late-night TV and other music news 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Betamax, in a zone where electronic dance music and jazz collide. Red Hot Chili Peppers Honor Eddie Van Halen, and 10 More New Songs 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

At their best, these musicians share a credo of jazz traditionalism unclouded by nostalgia. Playlist: Whether Jazz, Rock Or War Anthems, A Vintage Harvest 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z

“It melds with American thinking, and it becomes ragtime — it becomes jazz.” Met Gives Music Gallery a Makeover 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

You hear Balkan folk, American funk, West African high life, South African free jazz. The Best Albums of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

The young percussionist and composer Sarathy Korwar’s version of jazz is syncretic and historically cumulative — which jazz has always been, if not always so explicitly. The Playlist: Jay Z Responds to Police Shootings With ‘Spiritual’ 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

Do stick around for the encores, which these players use to shoot off in unexpected directions with improvised takes on folk music, jazz or the Beatles. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: Here’s What Our Critics Want to Hear 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

This is no great surprise as there are so few places where traditional jazz can be heard on the radio. All that jazz 2012-11-14T14:42:00Z

Toots Thielemans, one of the only musicians to have a successful career as a jazz harmonica player, died on Monday in Brussels. Toots Thielemans, Who Won Jazz Renown With the Harmonica, Dies at 94 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

Taxi Rappers love sitcoms and smooth jazz kingpin Bob James. Wale's Seinfeld tribute mixtape 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z

She gradually met jazz musicians and sang in clubs and workshops. Through Music, Jen Shyu Explores the Unknown, Including Herself 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

Instrumental records were a rarity on the pop charts at the time, jazz records even more so. Ramsey Lewis, Jazz Pianist Who Became a Pop Star, Dies at 87 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z

He invited her to sit in at his jazz club gigs before he left for Los Angeles. Molly Ringwald rediscovers her jazz roots 2013-04-18T16:01:04Z

Here was a jazz piano trio with the heart and gall of a stadium rock band, grappling wryly but directly with anthemic covers and its own scarcely less anthemic originals. Music Review: Together for 10 Years and Still Totally Committed 2010-09-17T20:08:00Z

No matter what you do in New Orleans, someone will be playing jazz, even at Pilates class. National Parks Gear Up for Summer Rush 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Through every chapter, solo piano remains a constant, the format in which Mr. Mehldau best excels at converging his interests in classical Romanticism, modern jazz and anguished but melodic indie rock. Brad Mehldau Evolves in ‘10 Years Solo Live,’ a New Boxed Set 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

Most people agree that jazz lives on originality, but you must to prove yourself a proper custodian of the past. Critic's Notebook: Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition 2011-09-13T06:51:04Z

Both programs draw inspiration from the pivotal 1960 jazz album and civil rights statement “We Insist! Max Roach’s ‘Freedom Now Suite.’ ” Kyle Abraham’s Abraham.In.Motion Echoes a Max Roach Album 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

But the show also demonstrates her uncommon fluency in most dominant genres of her time, including jazz, blues, Tin Pan Alley, funk and pop — “Aretha is Black, female, American,” Parks said, laughing. In ‘Genius: Aretha,’ Respecting the Mind, Not Just the Soul 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

After his 2011 debut “Blue Side Park” was released by an independent label and topped the charts, Miller turned to jazz and funk influences on later albums. Ariana Grande sorry she 'couldn't fix' Mac Miller's pain 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

In order for jazz to feel like an open subject, we need more challenging suppositions about it, whether they translate as pluralistic or exclusive. Arts & Leisure Preview: Ultimate Box of Jazz? Not Exactly 2011-03-17T17:46:52Z

Or head indoors to the window-wrapped lounge for a rotating lineup of live jazz, pop and R&B. 36 Hours in Scottsdale 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

And yet: Few associate Native Americans with jazz. Delbert Anderson’s Mission: Putting ‘Native Sound Back Into Jazz’ 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

That format, sparser than usual for him, recalls the organ-trio protocols at the heart of much great 1960s soul jazz. Music Review: Frank and Personal Don?t Rule Out Commercial 2010-10-15T22:53:00Z

In addition, the Hayes Valley location may allow the center to develop its own identity, away from the Fillmore district, the city’s designated “jazz heritage” area. Arts: Sleepy Jazz Scene Shows Signs of Awakening 2010-05-16T01:58:00Z

No African-American jazz master loved European harmony more than Davis. The World’s Greatest Living Jazz Composer Celebrates His Eighty-fifth Birthday 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

By the time she released “Chamber Music Society,” an art-song project characterized by interior, acoustic arrangements, she was the rare jazz artist with mainstream cachet. Esperanza Spalding on a Year in the Spotlight 2012-03-16T15:58:59Z

For the past year, The New York Times has been asking musicians, writers and scholars to share the music they’d play for a friend to get them into jazz. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Max Roach 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z

Rollins, 81, said the night was a celebration of a uniquely American form of music -- jazz. Kennedy Center Honors celebrates Streep, Diamond 2011-12-05T03:07:53Z

McCurdy Pavilion: I have often thought, looking out from this cavernous, repurposed balloon hangar to the evergreen trees beyond while listening to jazz, blues or fiddle music, that all is right with the world. 5 Seattle favorites: Where to hear the music 2014-05-11T04:00:00Z

Though he includes some nice, twizzly jazz moves, goofy period steps, a kick line and a dash of basic tap, the foundation of his vocabulary is classical, and he draws on ballet conventions. Christopher Wheeldon’s ‘An American in Paris’ Brings Ballet Values to Broadway 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

Fans both inside and outside the jazz loop – the Modern Jazz Quartet were one of the rare bands to be loved beyond the cognoscenti – simply referred to them as "the MJQ". 50 great moments in jazz: The Modern Jazz Quartet and John Lewis's Django 2010-03-24T17:12:00Z

A contemporary Hollywood musical, which opened this weekend in British cinemas, La La Land follows the bumpy love story of a hopeful actress and a failing jazz pianist, played by Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. Is hit Hollywood film La La Land about to become a stage show? 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z

It’s love at first sight for the Prince; they dance the night away to the strains of a Paul Whiteman-like jazz band. Cinderella Review: Disney Rekindles Old Magic 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

Renzi was born in Providence, started piano lessons at age 8, and in the 1960s was a regular on the city’s jazz scene. Michael Renzi, former ‘Sesame Street’ musical director, dies 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

Her version of “Lover Man,” treated as an extended sigh of dreamy longing propelled by subtle jazz phrasing, balanced tenderness and sensuality in a rendition that challenged Billie Holiday’s matchless original in beauty and honesty. Music Review: Barbara Cook at 54 Below 2013-04-25T21:52:39Z

The 55-year-old drummer and percussionist said that the Grammys cut is a sign of the dying appreciation of jazz and blues music in American culture. Grammy nominee Bobby Sanabria feels like a winner 2012-12-20T20:31:05Z

Throughout his archive, he penned ruminations on musical best practices, race relations and the frustrations of the jazz industry. Inside Sonny Rollins’s Jazz Archive, Headed Home to Harlem 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Iyer’s music was prismatic and encompassing: a knowing homage to Stravinsky’s spiky and propulsive motifs, a mesh of jazz harmonies with Indian modes, a flamboyant orchestral display, an atmospheric swirl. Vijay Iyer Performs at BAM Harvey Theater 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

Director Huey will be in attendance, as will Seattle Times jazz critic and author Paul de Barros, who will read from his new biography of McPartland, "Shall We Play That One Together?" At A Theater Near You: Scarecrow celebration, Earshot fest, more 2012-10-18T20:18:05Z

My first stop was Triboz, a small club dedicated to my favorite music, jazz. Pursuits: Moving to the Rhythms of Rio 2013-07-12T17:36:49Z

The music, performed with jazz technique on ancient folk drums, flows in abstract ebbs and crests. Chicago News Cooperative: As Winter Dawns, the Sound of Drums Fills the Air 2010-12-19T02:22:19Z

Yet audience exposure for jazz artists may be a better measure of its staying power. Playing outside the box 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Unlike metropolitan orchestras or opera houses, jazz groups usually lacked a steady home or grand performance space and a foundation of patrons to help them thrive. Riff on the world 2014-04-24T04:00:00Z

That still-unsolved mystery becomes a plot point for Nathaniel Rich in his new novel, “King Zeno,” about a jazz player in that city 100 years ago, development, corruption and race. Books: Susan Straight and David L. Ulin take on innovative memoirs and more in books 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z

There are also jazz tours, where you run from concert to concert, and a tour that incorporates an hour-long sauna session at the end. Top 10 city running tours 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

Eclectic in background and taste, some brought indie rock sensibilities to the table, others clung to jazz and folk. In Portland, cello players lay down a hip-hop beat 2012-06-01T22:01:36Z

Composing and arranging for the jazz orchestra has long been a Cinderella artform, neglected and denied critical attention in favour of its brasher siblings. Colin Towns Mask Orchestra 2010-08-17T21:30:00Z

Under his watch, the NEA increased the number of jazz master awards from three to as many as seven a year and the prize money from $20,000 to $25,000. Forget retirement. Wayne Brown returns to Detroit to run an opera. 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

The accomplishment and electricity with which the violinists of Mariachi Halcon strike up a tune matches any jazz band or chamber orchestra and, for the uninitiated, offers even more of a thrill. Television Review: ‘Mariachi High,’ Part of PBS Arts Summer Festival 2012 2012-06-28T22:49:20Z

Characters curse, smoke, drink, fight — the whole noir playbook, over moody jazz, in bright color by day and neon-flecked shadow after dark. Video Game to Play in Vintage Gumshoes 2011-05-06T20:13:40Z

We also became regulars at the Boston jazz clubs, where George knew all the musicians. Sprezzatura 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

All four of these bandleaders appeared as sidemen on Mr. Washington’s album, and each has his own approach to retrofitting the jazz tradition. Los Angeles’s Thriving Jazz Scene Produces Four New Albums 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

The four-piece band, which bridges modern influences from jazz to funk with classic rock, plays a syncopated, rhythm-heavy sound as if The Strokes, Modest Mouse and The Allman Brothers created a sonic offspring. Rock-band Dawes has learned a lot from Bob Dylan 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

The Siggraph audience applauded throughout the entire reel, enough so that the light jazz piano score was completely drowned out. This little light 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

This weekend at Lincoln Center, Alexander will be playing his first show accompanied by a string orchestra — an indication that he has ascended to the top floor of jazz’s commercial establishment. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

“Sung With Words,” a song cycle by the pianist Helen Sung and the poet Dana Gioia, starts from the premise that jazz and poetry are natural allies. Review: ‘Sung With Words,’ a Collaboration by a Pianist and a Poet 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

Our experts cited a strong neighborhood culture of front porch musicians, in combination with the theatricality of celebrations like Mardi Gras, as helping cultivate a vibrant jazz community. America's Musical Cities 2010-07-07T21:20:00Z

Behind the bar was a dance hall, which later became a jazz club and is now the theatre. 10 of the best hidden bars and restaurants in New York 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

“I started to think about musicians outside of the classical realm, singer-songwriters and jazz musicians who, when they perform, are not performing music articulated by a separate being,” Mr. Chong said. Critic’s Notebook: Chiara Quartet Records Brahms by Heart 2014-03-28T21:55:47Z

Not merely a club, HR 57 is a cultural center devoted to the history of jazz and blues. 36 Hours in Washington, D.C. 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Some of it is quite funny and all of it is pervaded by the spirit of play, like real jazz sounds when a master is manipulating it.” Ralph Ellison’s Letters Offer the Pleasures of Big Ideas and Everyday Life 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Perhaps the most startling debut albums in jazz this year were “Fly or Die,” by the trumpeter Jaimie Branch, and “Mannequins,” by the drummer Kate Gentile. For Women in Jazz, a Year of Reckoning and Recognition 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

The singer and pianist Memphis Slim — “one of the sophisticated blues guys that could keep one foot in the jazz world and one foot in the blues world,” he told Record Collector — became a favorite. Kim Simmonds, a Key Figure in the British Blues Movement, Dies at 75 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z

Another hit among dozens over the decades was Ascenseur pour l'echafaud, or Elevator to the Gallows, directed by Louis Malle with a soundtrack of the same name by jazz artist Miles Davis. French actress Jeanne Moreau dies at 89 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

The close timing of these releases is serendipitous not only because they’re both respected jazz musicians, but also, paradoxically, because of their shared resistance to categorization. Here’s how Miles Davis and Nina Simone were alike and different 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

"He's trying to keep this going," said Leon Jackson, who attended the second jazz festival in 1955 and most of them since. Jazz impresario building legacy for Newport fests 2011-07-24T20:46:04Z

Although the show’s title may lead you to expect all this fun to unfold to hip-hop, the few musical numbers tend toward jazz piano and smooth pop. Review: In ‘Little Red’s Hood,’ Tweets, Sweets and a Wolf on the Way to Grandma’s 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

A doyen of spiritual jazz, Mr. Sanders is known for his mantralike compositions, often featuring no more than two chords and a repetitious theme. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

We never learn why these students in the improv art of jazz have to play the exact charts of pieces at least 75 years old: Juan Tizol’s “Caravan” and Ray Noble’s “Cherokee.” Review: Whiplash Moves to the Beat of a Driven Drummer 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Fridays became “Bounce Night,” when popular music — jazz, R&B, funk and then disco — blared from the speakers. Meet Bill Butler, the Godfather of Roller Disco 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

A classically trained jazz musician, Taylor wrote music, led bands and played in countless nightclubs and music festivals in a career that spanned about six decades. Pianist Cecil Taylor, U.S. jazz innovator, dead at 89: media 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

Perry Farrell, the Jane’s Addiction singer, is a major influence, as are “Route 66, comedy, romanticism, drama, jazz, fantasy, ancient mythology,” she said. Big Bold Gold 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

In a rarity, Mr. Graves reached back to his earliest percussion work: playing timbales in Afro-Cuban jazz groups. Music Review: Milton Graves at Center of Vision Festival’s Opening Night 2013-06-13T21:03:09Z

"She takes the harp away from its classical expectations, instead fusing it with rootsy, gypsy, southern gospel and jazz influences" – Grove. New band of the day ? No 789: The Lucinda Belle Orchestra 2010-05-18T15:45:00Z

After extensive treatment he made a full recovery and resumed touring with both the Stones and his jazz band. Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dies at age 80 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

My pal Nate Chinen, a New York-based jazz writer whose father was Japanese American, left me a comment: “This is the town where my father spent his first four years, in internment.” A tour through dark chapters of American history hits close to home at site of California internment camp 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

This is one of many personal gestures Mr. Hutchings uses that don’t have a lot to do with the broader lexicon of the jazz saxophone. With Sons of Kemet, Shabaka Hutchings Brings London Jazz Into the Spotlight 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

It boiled down to places to play, jazz schools as incubators and gathering places, and the collaborative imaginations of individual performers. Peter Bernstein Quartet at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

His father, George, a pathologist, loved jazz and blues and purchased one of the first reel-to-reel tape machines in the late 1940s. Steve Miller cracked the code of 1970s radio. But he’s still raging against the music industry. 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

The pair start chanting in Portuguese, accompanied by African drums and jazz flute. Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso in London 2010-07-15T20:30:00Z

The campaign was initiated in 2008 by a $20 million donation from an anonymous individual from the Bay Area — the largest gift given to a jazz institution, said Mr. Kline. SFJazz Plans Its Own Building in San Francisco?s Hayes Valley 2010-05-06T19:47:00Z

David Thomson intuits the secret afterlife of Psycho in the American mind, in a short book which is like an inspired, bravura jazz solo. The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder by David Thomson | The Girl in Alfred Hitchcock's Shower by Robert Graysmith 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z

It’s not even especially Bill Evans, although his music lies at the center of the jazz tradition over the last half-century and is the pretext for Mr. Corea’s current gig. Music Review: Chick Corea Explores the Jazz of Bill Evans at the Blue Note 2010-05-05T23:01:00Z

These days, she feels like a jazz musician. Neneh Cherry: 'Jazz can be the way you make love' 2012-05-22T18:30:01Z

Much later that night, after midnight, the drummer Sameer Gupta played through his arrangements of Bollywood soundtrack songs with sitar, cello and viola appended to a jazz trio. Critic?s Notebook: Jammed Sessions Abound at a Village Jazz Festival 2011-01-10T00:00:16Z

Baltacigil calculates, with amusing precision, that his own preferred musical diet is roughly 75 percent classical and 25 percent improvisation: "I really do enjoy listening to good-quality jazz and good rock." Symphony welcomes new flute, cello principals 2011-09-28T23:42:07Z

He started studying ballet, modern and jazz, he said, to widen his repertoire when he went out. Pros, Sure. But Reborn as Party Animals on the Dance Floor. 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

The jazz influence had both the first word, in Steve Cohen’s tuneful Sonata for Soprano Saxophone, and the last, in Howard Cass’s Jazz Suite for viola, piano and amplified double bass. Music Review: Manhattan Chamber Orchestra at Symphony Space - Review 2012-01-05T21:51:52Z

We’ll compile the best submissions into a running eulogy for the jazz legend, who died today at 91. Send us your Dave Brubeck tracks! 2012-12-05T17:44:00Z

Coltrane appreciated the ballads of the past as much as the free jazz of the future; he was simultaneously reverential and questing. The Intoxicating Promise of John Coltrane’s “Lost Album” 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

It will host a program of events including talks and debates; performances of choral and experimental music, jazz and soul; and a clay workshop. A Chicago Roofer’s Legacy Finds a Home in the Serpentine Pavilion 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

“To meet someone like Keith LaMar, who’s not only incarcerated, but on death row, unfairly, unjustly, it’s a heavy thing,” said Washington, a tenor saxophonist and jazz educator with a doctorate from Harvard. Jazz Freed Keith LaMar’s Soul. Can It Help Him Get Off Death Row? 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

In the late 1940s, he moved to the San Francisco Bay area, where he headed an experimental jazz octet. Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck dead at 91 2012-12-05T18:42:23Z

He quickly embraced their “commonality” — they each completed a Harvard Business School online certificate program for professionals, and loved jazz. Manhattan-Centric No More, at Least Online 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

This refreshingly quirky, 17-year-old pop/jazz/soul group takes its name from a beloved local nightlife district in its hometown of Minneapolis. A new Seattle jazz joint emerges, while two of the hottest jazz acts come to town 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

I once went to a winery event featuring a jazz quartet and was shocked when they started playing an Alice Coltrane composition. For Women in Jazz, a Year of Reckoning and Recognition 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

They took like, whatever, Coltrane, and combined that with punk and the precision of classical or jazz players. Donna Summer: Disco diva and rocker 2012-05-18T01:26:00Z

“And of course jazz is where improvisation is part of the DNA of the music.” Coltrane by De Keersmaeker, Freewheeling but Structure Intact 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

He added, "We were building it as we were doing it. It was jazz." In 'Birdman,' Alejandro G. Inarritu takes his doubts and lets them fly 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

On Mondays, small combos of jazz musicians, often French, perform. A Brooklyn Bar With Inspiration From Marie Antoinette 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

Fortuitously, this year's Monk competition is the first for jazz drummers since 1992. Albright to be honored for her 'jazz diplomacy' 2012-08-21T23:16:03Z

And all of it is scored to mellow, synth-laden yacht rock and smooth jazz. Turning Sports Statistics Into Riveting Cinema 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z

Ms. Kuhn’s interpretation of the song and of the jazz standard “Something Cool” both began modestly, then intensified as their narrators became consumed by their illusions. Music Review: Judy Kuhn at Feinstein?s at Loews Regency 2012-03-07T23:04:06Z

The festival closes with three contrasting approaches to world jazz. Brecon jazz festival 2010-08-11T21:15:00Z

It was visionary stuff that bodes well for the future of jazz. Theo Croker and his band prove that jazz has a healthy heartbeat 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

But he puts a lot of framework in his own music: He wants to represent jazz within its broadest possible contexts of place and history. | Pop: The Musical Trail of an Explorer 2014-01-31T18:34:28Z

Mr. Craig is known for collaborating with jazz and classical musicians, influences that have percolated back into his own work even when he’s performing solo as he will be on Friday night. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Some of this was perhaps the byproduct of a more venturesome jazz culture. Music: Miles Davis Reissue, ?Live in Europe 1967? 2011-09-09T16:30:32Z

Meanwhile the narrator, Sal Paradise, continues his endearingly naive pursuit of the soul of America, the "Promised Land", and all that jazz. On the Road by Jack Kerouac ? iPad app review 2011-07-22T08:00:01Z

Inspired by Broadway show tunes, the gospel tradition and jazz artists like Django Reinhardt as well as by country music, he became popular playing on Southern radio stations as a teenager. Arthur Smith Dies at 93; Wrote ‘Dueling Banjos’ 2014-04-09T00:54:44Z

During the week, the Spencer Brown Quartet expertly plays some very modern improv jazz, though at a volume that is a bit too amplified for the small space. Boîte : Bobby’s on the Lower East Side - Boîte 2013-06-05T20:12:39Z

It is a very good time to be a Seattle jazz fan. Thanks, Portland, for giving Seattle this unofficial jazz festival 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

Photograph: David Redfern It's a part of jazz lore: in the summer of 1961, Scott LaFaro, a talented young bassist with the Bill Evans Trio, died in a car accident at the age of 25. Intermission by Owen Martell – review 2013-02-22T20:00:01Z

Over the last nine years, it has corrected its course, entering a new period of steadiness and dignity as it seeks a new framing of jazz — and of its own audience. Critic’s Notebook: Festival, Now 59, Welcomes Several Generations 2013-08-05T21:42:43Z

Shipton called him "truly one of the most influential musical figures not only in jazz but in music in the 20th Century." Dave Brubeck: Jazz pianist dies 2012-12-05T17:59:02Z

Stone’s character dreams of becoming an actress, Gosling’s a jazz pianist and club owner. The Golden Globes Awards never fail to disappoint the easily disappointable 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

Sharrock has been heavily respected in jazz circles since the 1960s for her raw and riveting use of extended vocal techniques: Moans, breaths and cries have been her musical units. Solange Curates Powerful Performances of Black Joy and Pain at BAM 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

The décor is simple and modern, with smooth jazz and R&B playing in the background. A Taste of Vegan Nashville 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

That mission, though it sometimes took a back seat to the requirements of a dance band, made Irakere a touchstone for jazz musicians in Cuba. Chucho Valdés, the Pianist, Reflects on Irakere and His Career 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

By 2001 the teenager was singing with a jazz band when her then-boyfriend, soul singer Tyler James, sent off her demo to a management company. Amy Winehouse: 'She was a sweet, tiny thing with this huge great voice' 2011-07-23T20:31:06Z

With his Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, he presents original works that tangle up Cuban folklore with modernism and experimental jazz. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

Georgia Peach Trifle Talk about jazzed up pound cake! Summer Pound Cakes 2010-05-19T15:57:00Z

It harks back to the Tulsa Sound, a mix of lighter blues, country, rock and jazz that hails from Tulsa, Oklahoma, the state where Cale was born. Eric Clapton pays musical tribute to long-time friend JJ Cale 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

He sparked my interest in foreign films and old movies, in jazz and Russian literature, in Franz Kafka and Marshall McLuhan. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

Whatever your strategy, you’ll want to know that the Winter Jazzfest offers a cross section of the city’s progressive jazz ecosystem, gathering groups and artists from multiple scenes. The Week Ahead: Jan. 2 ? 8 2010-12-31T15:49:43Z

Terry Davies's slick atmospheric jazz score drives choreography that builds intimate gestures into tight sophisticated dance. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-06-22T23:06:40Z

The Erteguns, she says, “resisted all sorts of political pressure in the 1930s and 1940s” as they regularly hosted “Black jazz artists on special jazz evenings at the Turkish Embassy in Washington.” These Turkish brothers found their calling in D.C., championing the Black music scene 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

I jazzed it up to make it look like an old Polaroid.” When Hands Talk, Be Careful Where You Point 2014-02-07T23:10:32Z

Precisely where “jazz” fits into this matrix is, perhaps, a little complicated. With Peter Evans on Trumpet, Only the Shape Is Familiar 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

The top-earning acts in pop, rap, R&B, country and jazz — those with the most clout at the record companies and with television network executives — have remained largely silent on the issue. Grammy Award Cuts Still Face Some Opposition 2011-12-28T23:18:54Z

In jazzing up the tale for the screen, Rogers sands down the somberness — Baltese is all fuzzy blues and pinks, with nary a trace of postwar grit — while turning up the silliness for gimmicky thrills. ‘The Magician’s Elephant’ Review: The Promise of a Pachyderm 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

For example, he commissioned the jazz critic Gary Giddins to profile Jack Benny. Ben Sonnenberg, Founder of Literary Journal, Dies at 73 2010-06-26T01:00:00Z

On my last night in Montreux, I headed down to the jazz festival and drank as many thimblefuls of wine as I could afford. Lake Geneva as Shelley and Byron Knew It 2011-05-27T19:00:27Z

But if the mainstream festival circuit now welcomes a more mellow, elder-statesman version of Sanders's impressionistic methods and blistering intensity, it's small jazz clubs that often bring out the spontaneous and theatrical best in him. This week's new live music 2012-06-29T23:05:21Z

It's an amazing, funky swing band in sonic reality that will surprise you with some free jazz skronk in one of those dizzying, up-tempo vamps they shred at. Sink your teeth into a better Taste 2011-06-23T11:42:00Z

He also took part in the Nashville sessions that produced the album “Tennessee Firebird,” a pioneering fusion of country and jazz released by the vibraphonist Gary Burton in 1967. Ray Edenton, ‘A-Team’ Studio Guitarist in Nashville, Dies at 95 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

His stated cause is “social music,” a phrase meant to encompass jazz and much else besides, and the title of his most recent album, released on Razor & Tie in 2013. Jon Batiste Will Lead ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Band in a Style He Sees Fit 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

It’s hard to think of another musician whose writing style worked its way so indelibly into the DNA of jazz: how the music is composed, how it’s played, how we think about it. Wayne Shorter, a Jazz Hero Whose Goal Was ‘to Fear Nothing’ 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

Coltrane’s turn to free jazz, in his last two years of performance, gave rise to a more overtly transcendent yet frenzied yearning. Coltrane’s Free Jazz Wasn’t Just “A Lot of Noise” 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

The resulting album, “Inside,” later reissued as “Inside the Taj Mahal,” seemed to belong to a dreamy genre all its own, rooted in jazz but not exactly jazzlike. Paul Horn, a Founding Father of New Age Music, Dies at 84 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

This year was especially full of vital, often magisterial statements by jazz musicians of a certain age. In Jazz, Listen to the Timeless Elders 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Mr. Motian came late to composition, in the 1970s after he’d been an important jazz drummer for many years; his themes sound stubborn and natural. Playlist: Sonic Stylings Dusted Off or Stripped Bare 2011-01-14T20:17:09Z

For her jazz is something like a bardic act; when she sang, her words turned into benedictions, chants, questions to the audience. Music Review: Jazz Masters Fellowships Celebrated at a Jazz Reunion - Review 2012-01-12T00:03:24Z

This month he released his debut album, “MDR,” on Imani Records, the label run by Orrin and Dawn Evans; it’s a peppery and distinctive record, blending influences from Haitian dance music, modern jazz and hip-hop. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Now in its 14th year, the festival is a broad and generous sampler of jazz’s new specialty dishes: Everyone from oft-neglected elders to rising voices gets their due. Review: A Jazzfest Marathon Where Voices Lead the Way to Resistance and Renewal 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

She doesn’t stay very long within standard jazz idioms, or even some of the favored nonidiomatic languages of free improvisation. 2010-01-15T04:14:00Z

The Brubecks’ most ambitious collaboration was probably “The Real Ambassadors,” the satirical story of an American jazz musician who visits Africa on a State Department tour. Iola Brubeck, Collaborator and Wife of Jazz Pianist, Dies at 90 2014-03-15T03:32:43Z

Yet seeing her share a stage with jazz guitarist Bill Frisell, a key member of the band on her 1987 album Strange Weather, you wonder why she has ever bothered playing with anyone else. Marianne Faithfull/Bill Frisell – review 2013-06-24T17:20:25Z

The co-creator and star, Tim Reid, has been trying to get “Frank’s Place” into the home video market for decades, but the show’s expensive soundtrack of vintage jazz and R&B has been a snag. 6 Classic TV Series Left Out of the Streaming Boom 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

See our full new season listings for pop and jazz here, and listen to a playlist of songs from the fall preview on Spotify here. 10 Fall Pop and Jazz Albums (and One Festival) You Shouldn’t Miss 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Her Town Hall concert is named after her 2010 album, “Chamber Music Society,” which augmented her jazz group with arrangements for a string trio. The Week Ahead: May 15 ? 21 2011-05-13T18:51:39Z

It’s a diverse album that reflects her command of rock, Americana, country, jazz and electronic groove music. Norah Jones’ new album starts with jazz, goes from there 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Since then he's explored jazz, Indian music and now prog rock. Robert Miles: Thirteen ? review 2011-02-03T22:20:01Z

The contagious mashup of house music, jazz and hip-hop is tailor-made for dancing, so beginning his set with “Track Uno,” the breezy opener of “99.9%,” opened the portal to his uninhibited dimension. Kaytranada’s world a contagious live experience 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

As for the musical composition, performed by an orchestra of six, “Oratorio” layers myriad genres — gospel, jazz, Baroque and a range of pop styles — to create harmony where cacophony might otherwise exist. Heather Christian’s Choral Work Is a Study of Time. Patience, Too. 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

He brought Indian classical music to a new mass audience, while constantly experimenting with fusions of Indian themes with western classical or jazz styles. Ravi Shankar: the Beatles' muse who turned his back on rock 2012-12-12T20:43:56Z

Experienced Inuit throat singers will tell you it’s easy to hyperventilate during the game, so it’s advisable to learn circular breathing, like a jazz saxophonist given to long solos. Tanya Tagaq takes Inuit throat singing to wildly unexpected places 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

Pop showing he’s still got it in “I Got a New Home,” spinning jazz with only the musical accompaniment of his loved ones’ voices; Mom bringing down the house in the prayerful plea “Seventh Son.” Review: Music trumps storytelling in 'Born for This,' the BeBe and CeCe Winans story 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

Batiste grew up with the funk sound of the Neville Brothers and the Meters, but without jazz, social music might not exist. Jon Batiste gives jazz a loose interpretation 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

She has appeared on some of her movie soundtracks and in a jazz cabaret act called If All the Stars Were Pretty Babies. Loretta Lynn wants Zooey Deschanel in musical 2012-05-11T02:56:08Z

Few musicians, with the possible exceptions of trumpeter Al Hirt and the ­members of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, were so deeply identified with the early music of New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz. Pete Fountain, who kept Dixieland swinging in New Orleans, dies at 86 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z

That proved to be the end of Mr. Lewis’s career as a purveyor of hit singles, but it was far from the end of his career as a jazz musician. Ramsey Lewis, Jazz Pianist Who Became a Pop Star, Dies at 87 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z

Launched in December 1964, JRR was the first regular weekly jazz broadcast on the Third Programme – as Radio 3 was then known – which had hitherto presented classical music, talks and drama. All that jazz 2012-11-14T14:42:00Z

Phoebe Waller-Bridge was brought on board at the 11th hour to jazz up the script – and, says Harris, even when she wasn’t on the set, she was present. Naomie Harris: 'After Moonlight, I just wanted to open a nail salon' 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

Swing, hip-hop, electronica, jazz and modern theater styles flowed into one another in a musical stream of consciousness. Review: Grace McLean, Whose Songs Skip Across Boundaries 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

So we just immersed ourselves in this fascinating transitional period when ragtime is just beginning to turn into jazz. Television: On the Boardwalk, HBO Hangs Out With a New Mob 2010-09-03T19:34:00Z

The pandemic has forced jazz musicians to become resourceful — in some cases, to the extreme. A Radiohead Spinoff’s Snarling Single, and 8 More New Songs 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

Now more than ever, the easiest answer to that pesky question — what’s keeping jazz vital these days? — appears to lie in London. With Sons of Kemet, Shabaka Hutchings Brings London Jazz Into the Spotlight 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

Their work incorporates dub, funk and jazz, creating a rich, textured version of the kind of global dance sound that’s become increasingly popular over the course of their career. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

When asked by an interviewer in 2007 how he would talk to a jazz newbie, Taylor said it depended on the "quality of the music." Jazz musician Billy Taylor dies at 89 2010-12-30T03:02:00Z

Their harmonies helped define the Motown sound of R&B and soul, but the Four Tops went beyond genre, often throwing in jazz and American standards in their shows. Duke Fakir details the Four Tops musical bond in new book 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

David Rooney, reviewing it in The New York Times, said that the songs succeeded in “evoking Fitzgerald’s characters, spreading a beguiling carpet of melancholy beneath all that jazz age revelry.” Lee Pockriss, Composer and Songwriter, Is Dead at 87 2011-11-17T03:55:54Z

“I was listening to quite a lot of mellow East Coast jazz-inspired hip-hop, where they just sampled a lot of jazz records,” he says. ArtsBeat Blog: Popcast: Interviews with Chick Corea and King Krule 2011-11-10T18:04:14Z

Now we’re in our 10th week; “Preludes and Fugues” danced to Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier” and “Yowzie” danced to jazz will be performed for audiences at Lincoln Center in New York City. Twyla Tharp on Tour: The Right to Assemble 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

Though true to the catch-as-catch-can tradition of '20s musical comedy, "Shuffle Along" did something radical that was instantly assimilated: It infused jazz into the sound of Broadway. How 'Shuffle Along' director George C. Wolfe brought back the 1921 show that changed Broadway forever 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

Kelly Harland, a fine jazz singer who teaches voice at Cornish College, says she was making $50,000 a year doing commercials at Seattle West: "For a musician in the '70s, that was huge!" Family-owned Bear Creek Studio makes music and magic 2013-04-23T23:24:08Z

The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, the celebrated traditional jazz outfit from New Orleans, will play the first day. ArtsBeat: My Morning Jacket and Jackson Browne to Headline Newport Folk Festival 2012-03-01T02:00:43Z

This record would be a good blindfold test: With no knowledge of her past, you might guess that she did not learn jazz from black American jazz musicians of an older generation. Playlist: Styles That Can?t Be Pinned Down 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z

Outside the new music building, musicians rehearsed a jazz number, and in the Harvey Theater, Broadway veteran Justin Lee Miller was giving pointers during a singing lesson. Perspective | Interlochen has been building an arts-education hub for almost a century. Now it’s all about building artists. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

A walking bass line, and then a swinging jazz trio, give Belafonte a backdrop for brash, syncopated, trumpet-like phrasing. Work, Love, Dignity and Play: 10 Key Harry Belafonte Songs 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ross, a drummer, won the 2012 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, usually a coronation ceremony for the next rising star in straight-ahead jazz. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

Thursday's band is Tumbao, playing Latin jazz and salsa; wear comfy shoes, as a dance lesson is included in the performance. Olympic Sculpture Park joins neighborhoods with a farmers market 2010-07-15T00:05:00Z

But if the names of Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald are often invoked as proof of her class, Reeves has been open to a wider world than jazz. Dianne Reeves – review 2012-11-07T18:01:43Z

Preceding the Inside/Out awards by about 20 years are the Golden Ear awards, presented by Earshot to local jazz musicians. First Inside/Out Jazz Awards born from within Seattle jazz community 2010-05-31T04:01:00Z

Over time he wove widely varied styles into his voice, including Stravinsky Neo-Classicism, jazz and even bel canto opera. Review: Cantata Profana Revives a Henze Cycle Inspired by German Poems 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

Karn had a deep interest in jazz and continued to work with former members of Japan – there was even a brief Japan reunion as Rain Tree Crow – as well as musician David Torn. Former Japan bass player Mick Karn loses battle with cancer 2011-01-05T01:35:30Z

Window Seat would fit perfectly there, Agitation smooths over its prickly jazz piano riff by reprising the "What a day, what a day" lyrical motif from that album's hit On and On. Erykah Badu: New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh | CD review 2010-04-01T14:35:00Z

No regional roots musicians whose categories were cut have joined the class-action lawsuit that four Latin jazz players brought in New York State court back in August, nor have suits been filed in other states. Grammy Award Cuts Still Face Some Opposition 2011-12-28T23:18:54Z

Next year's Jazz Fest will include a 50th anniversary celebration of Preservation Hall, the French Quarter venue founded in 1961 to protect and honor New Orleans jazz. Eagles, Tom Petty to perform at 2012 Jazz Fest 2011-12-14T12:16:17Z

But it later expanded to include a wide variety of genres, from jazz to rock. TV's Austin City Limits branches out but retains intimate feel 2012-10-12T11:48:26Z

She was a straight-A student, studied ballet and violin, and sang in the school jazz choir. Meet the very wealthy, very private couple behind Washington’s most original museum 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

The group was known for thoughtful lyrics, jazz samples and a more artful, less macho, approach to hip-hop. Loss Haunts A Tribe Called Quest’s First Album in 18 Years 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

“By virtue of that, I have played with every major jazz musician in the world.” N.E.A. Jazz Masters Hail From Inside and Outside the Club 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

In its original production, “Jonny” ended with its title character — a black jazz fiddler who teaches the uptight European world how to fox trot — playing atop a spinning globe. David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web 2013-08-02T18:57:04Z

Mitchell, a flutist who was recently selected to head the University of Pittsburgh’s prestigious jazz program, has friends in many high places. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

Perhaps she was dancing in one of those jazz clubs she liked to visit, oblivious of the chaos she’d left trailing in her wake. The Marked Woman 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

Another three-part medley involved jazz and classical pieces used in Woody Allen films. Music Review: ‘The Big Picture,’ Movie Music at the Museum of Jewish Heritage 2014-01-30T23:53:10Z

The remainder are shots of other groups he photographed subsequently, among them shots of Simon & Garfunkel, the Lovin' Spoonful, Cream and the Hollies as well as Frank Sinatra, Buddy Rich and other jazz musicians. Rare, unusual Beatles and Rolling Stones photos surface via eBay sale 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

"A lot of directors want you to jazz it up," he said. Imogen Stubbs hits out at mumbling actors 2013-06-22T11:26:42Z

Later, Higgins himself ascends to the stage of the jazz club they visit and is delighted to play Baker’s “Let’s Get Lost” on standing bass with the band. ‘Ted Lasso’ Season 3, Episode 6 Recap: Dutch Treat 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

He used Mr. Kikuchi in different iterations of a group called Trio 2000+1, and in them Mr. Kikuchi polarized audiences in a way that very few jazz musicians do anymore. Masabumi Kikuchi Finds New Direction With ?Sunrise? 2012-03-25T01:43:04Z

His orchestration includes a role for jazz trio - a bass guitar, guitar and drums - that helps blur the lines between "serious" music and a more popular sound. Anna Nicole, the opera: She aims to sleaze 2011-02-18T01:35:12Z

It had some positive tension from the start and a greater degree of structured and melodic material for the jazz players. Music Review: ‘Ten Freedom Summers,’ by Wadada Leo Smith 2013-05-03T05:55:12Z

There is a free concert every Tuesday, often jazz, soul or swing. 10 top tips from our Brussels correspondent 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Lewis was in Cannes for the premiere of "Max Rose," a drama directed by Daniel Noah in which Lewis stars as an aging jazz musician. Jerry Lewis repeats his distaste for female comics 2013-05-23T20:09:09Z

Rudy went to see a lot of live jazz as a young man. Music: Vinyl Revival: Reissues From Blue Note?s Heyday 2010-08-08T01:30:00Z

His book “The Eye of Jazz” was published in France in 1985; in 1988, a show of his jazz photos at a London gallery ignited worldwide interest. Herman Leonard, Photographer, Dies at 87 2010-08-18T03:45:00Z

There’s no cover charge or drink minimum, so it’s a good choice for those unfamiliar with jazz and just looking to check out the scene. The best jazz clubs in Paris 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

SUN Dixieland jazz for listening and dancing with New Orleans Quintet, 1 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

It includes musical games and a performance of Bohuslav Martinu’s “La Revue de Cuisine,” a comic jazz work about the romantic travails of kitchenware. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

If jazz, opera, the blues and soul were all one voice, that voice would be hers. In ‘Afropessimism,’ a Black Intellectual Mixes Memoir and Theory 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z

There's nothing not to like about the concept: a group from Switzerland who take inspiration from the golden age of Ethiopian jazz and funk. Womad 2013: Rokia Traore, Arrested Development and more - day two review 2013-07-28T12:23:34Z

As a composer, Mr. Baker wrote blues-based jazz tunes, symphonic works and compositions blending the two styles. David Baker, jazz scholar, composer and conductor, dies at 84 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

The attraction both in “Better Things” and “Louie” is that we are in the hands of terrific writers and actors who intuit the range of human banality and emotions like great jazz musicians. Pamela Adlon goes on to ‘Better Things,’ while Tig Notaro revisits the same old thing 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

My favorite version is from the New Orleans jazz legend and trumpeter Leroy Jones, from his 1994 release “Mo’ Cream From the Crop.” 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love New Orleans Jazz 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

Another jazz club downstairs from a fine establishment is Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village. Great Jazz on the Great Hill, and Club Fare in Harlem and the Village 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

You can consider “Whiplash” the “Zero Dark Thirty” of jazz movies, and the comparison is less facetious than it sounds. “Whiplash” examines the line between education and abuse 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

There’s often Latin jazz and boogaloo and salsa in the background. Accessibility Is a Right. This Restaurant Treats It That Way. 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

He was in the ensemble of the smash hit musical “King Kong,” South Africa’s first jazz opera, composed by the musician and writer Todd Matshikiza and based on the life of a boxing champion. Jonas Gwangwa, Trombonist and Anti-Apartheid Activist, Dies at 83 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

But despite what my phone says, there’s no sign of a jazz club on this corner. In this trendy Mexico City neighborhood, you won’t be hard-pressed to find a good cocktail 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

There was a consciousness-raising element to the group’s music, akin to experimental jazz luminaries including the Sun Ra Arkestra and Art Ensemble of Chicago. Revisiting the Pyramids’ ‘Avant-Garde African Jazz,’ Four Decades Later 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

On a musical level she shows the potential of becoming a great jazz singer. Phoebe Snow, singer of 1970s hit 'Poetry Man,' dies at 60 2011-04-26T15:27:00Z

When I was writing “We’re Not Broken,” the thing that really got me through was listening to jazz music. He Is a Journalist With Autism, but in His Book, That’s Not the Whole Story 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

In many ways Cline embodies the festival's mission to investigate the uncharted regions where jazz bleeds into other styles and traditions. Nels Cline and Yuka Honda treasure time together 2011-01-27T21:04:05Z

“You cannot take the fact that jazz is being taught at conservatory out of the equation,” she said. Where Jazz Lives Now 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

Little by little, Mr. Baker won his colleagues over, and today, jazz studies at Indiana encompasses the history, composition and performance of the genre. David Baker, Who Helped Bring Jazz Studies Into the Academy, Dies at 84 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

And please don't get me started on the subject of "jazz" again. Sixty things I've learned since turning 60 2013-04-29T16:53:01Z

This season though, while the Brooklynettes' focus is still hip-hop and street jazz, the look is different, more precise. The Biggest Dance Show in Town? At a Basketball Game. 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

Hot Orange, a 20-piece band, plays an evening concert of jazz, fusion, funk and gospel on July 7. In Transit: At the Scoop, a Summer of Culture in London 2011-06-05T10:01:04Z

He does so in collaboration with inventive percussionist Mark Guiliana, and the result is an utterly strange, consistently surprising jazz record. Essential tracks: Lesser-known but just as worthy Grammy nominees 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

But if Alexander always pays his respects to yesteryear's jazz, he takes care of its formalities with a relaxed eagerness and pungent wit – as does his principal partner on these gigs, Vincent Herring. This week's new live music 2013-01-12T06:00:12Z

“With the arrival of Charlotte … drab secretary by day, jazz baby by night, we enter the youthful Berlin of dance crazes and desperate excess.” Sex, Drugs and Crime in the Gritty Drama ‘Babylon Berlin’ 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

He was a jazz musician before he was a jazz entrepreneur. George Wein, Jazz Festival Trailblazer, Is Dead at 95 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

In this piece the listener will hear everything from dissonance to beautiful consonant tonal writing, to jazz to all kinds of things. All hail Joan of Arc, in music -- but in London? 2011-11-03T11:31:03Z

For Ms. Krall, the jazz and pop standards on “Quiet,” like the many others she has performed through the years, represent not the past but the enduring. Diana Krall on Handling Grief, and ‘Finding Romance in Everything’ 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z

But doing so as a Cuban jazz pianist whose father is Chucho, a name synonymous with Cuban jazz piano, wasn’t easy. A New Vanguard of Women in Cuban Jazz 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

We’re about 70 years into the eerie afterlife of the jazz big band. January in Live Jazz: 5 Standout Shows 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

Still, the expansions of characters like Tamara Tunie's Ana add spark and depth, promoting her from a convenience store owner to the proprietor of a jazz club doubling as the criminal underworld's social hub. "Cowboy Bebop" is an off-key adaptation that captures the jazzy color but not soul of the original 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z

My mother grew up dancing — ballet, tap, jazz. Perpetual Motion 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

Tucked in the city’s jazz district at 18th and Vine, the museum is small and manageable, yet has a wealth of information about the storied — and in some ways tragic — history of baseball in America. The Museums Times Reporters Like to Visit on Their Days Off 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

Born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, and now based in Harlem, Yamani plays jazz piano with more than a hint of Arab influence. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

And you’d better be: Whether singing a jazz standard, covering Whitney Houston in a stride-jazz style or improvising a risqué blues, he expects full-blooded participation from the crowd. New Year’s Eve: A Procrastinator’s Guide to Music and Comedy Shows 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

Today’s musicologists are more interested in jazz and hip-hop than they are in the spiritual. The Music of Don Shirley Is More Resilient Than Any “Green Book” Cliché 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

Once he had launched the Jazzmen, critics were often condescending about the band's showbiz style, but no one who listened carefully to Ball himself could doubt his jazz credentials. Kenny Ball 2013-03-07T17:31:53Z

She also came to know jazz and R&B greats invited to the family home - Cooke, Art Tatum, Dinah Washington, Fats Domino and Bobby Bland. 'Queen of Soul' Aretha Franklin dies aged 76: AP 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

Until recently, Mr. Evans was best known in jazz circles as a member of Mostly Other People Do the Killing, a gleefully subversive combo led by an old Oberlin classmate, the bassist Moppa Elliott. With Peter Evans on Trumpet, Only the Shape Is Familiar 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

We spoke to one of them – jazz/rock/experimental guitarist Marc Ribot, who serves on the executive board for the artists rights group Content Creators Coalition. Steve Albini is wrong: “If we don’t have copyright, we don’t get paid” 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

By the 1980s he was again playing an electric instrument, but this time in a straight-ahead jazz context. Larry Coryell, Guitarist of Fusion Before It Had a Name, Dies at 73 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

“Mo’ Better Blues,” Spike Lee’s film about a fictional jazz group, became the theme of their Oct. It Was ‘I Love You’ (Twice) at First Sight 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

A fiery new music called jazz hit the airwaves, courtesy of Duke Ellington and his band in Harlem’s Cotton Club. How ‘Some Like It Hot’ Tunes In to the Jazz Age 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

He graduated with a degree in jazz performance, then spent time living with his father in Colorado, immersing himself in the Denver scene and continuing to play religious music. James Brandon Lewis, a Saxophonist Who Embodies and Transcends Tradition 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

And 87-year-old Chicago saxophone legend Von Freeman has been chosen to receive the nation's highest jazz honor: the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters award, according to sources. Jazz at Symphony Center and Von Freeman's award 2011-04-19T19:31:48Z

After World War II ended, the young Mr. Tomita became enraptured by Western classical music, along with jazz and pop, through radio broadcasts by the United States Army of occupation. Isao Tomita, Widely Considered the Father of Japanese Electronic Music, Dies at 84 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

Of all the important American roots music — jazz, blues, country, soul — the least well known is surely gospel. 10 mainstream musicians who wouldn’t exist without gospel 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z

The two, best known as touring members of Arcade Fire, offered back-to-back instrumental sets that fused jazz, contemporary classical and avant rock into an unclassifiable evening. Essential tracks: Sarah Neufeld-Colin Stetson: mysterious, moody collaboration 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z

Awash in the dimensions of his sound in the room, it was almost possible to imagine that this was a regular visit, a piece of the usual bounty for jazz lovers in New York. Review: Charles Lloyd Returns to the Village Vanguard 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Jones was named a National Endowment for the Arts jazz master in 1989. Hank Jones, Versatile Jazz Pianist, Dies at 91 2010-05-17T15:40:00Z

Even now on “Game of Thrones,” I’m very excited, I’m really jazzed. ArtsBeat: Q. & A. With ?Game of Thrones? Author 2011-04-01T12:30:50Z

Rank of “Jazz Samba” on the Billboard album charts, a rarity for any jazz album. Bossa Nova and its influence on guitarist Charlie Byrd on display at Strathmore

Mr. George, also a teaching artist at public city high schools, performs with Mélange, an Afro-Cuban Latin jazz band led by Kali Rodriguez-Pena. Two Musicians Hit the Right Notes, With Practice 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

But other equally old jazz landmarks along the block, the former Eagle Saloon and the Iroquois Theater, had miraculously pulled through. A Pandemic, Then a Hurricane, Brings New Orleans Musicians ‘to Their Knees’ 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

Whether he’s riding a New Orleans second-line beat, or tossing in classical-piano flourishes, or splintering a soul song into avant-garde jazz, or radically reconstructing a Professor Longhair standard, his virtuosity is a force of nature. Pop Picks for New Year’s Eve in New York 2013-12-26T23:11:43Z

"He took blues, funk, rap and jazz and combined it into a new sound." Jazz guitarist Cosey dies at 68 2012-06-11T09:04:04Z

How has jazz inspired you as a songwriter and poet over your long career? Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

Few jazz composers have ever mingled autumnal lyricism with a deceptive strength and an instantly identifiable harmonic palette as hauntingly as Wheeler has done. Kenny Wheeler Quintet – review 2013-01-17T17:48:37Z

The National Endowment for the Arts will hand out prizes to five jazz luminaries on Monday in the 35th annual N.E.A. N.E.A. to Honor Jazz Masters Under a Cloud of Uncertainty 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

Musicians — pop, jazz and classical — are flocking to town and releasing albums. What to Do This Weekend 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

But jazz is more eclectic, more surprising, largely because of the often-misunderstood art of improvisation. Listen up: ‘How to Listen to Jazz’ 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

He’s one of the most excitingly kinetic drummers in jazz, and this is his best outlet so far. The Week Ahead: April 8 ? 14 2012-04-06T22:03:30Z

Her look is severe, but she knows how to put the jazz into it, too. Fashion’s New Order 2012-09-07T20:36:32Z

For "Yowzie," she chose selections from "Viper's Drag," a compilation of early jazz and original compositions arranged by Henry Butler and Steven Bernstein. Twyla Tharp is marking her 50-year anniversary by looking ahead 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

He’s also a ruggedly modern thinker, whose own most recent album draws inspiration from radio hip-hop, classic quiet storm, cinematic scores and contemporary jazz. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

One of the boldest thinkers and most delightful composers in this vein is Hazama, who studied Western classical music in Japan before making the jump to jazz. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

“At the time I was so jazzed,” she said. Arts & Leisure Preview: Katy Perry, Pop Cartoon Sprung From the Playbook 2010-08-19T17:54:00Z

David Foster’s production usually cushions an easygoing jazz rhythm section with plush string arrangements, and Mr. Stewart sings suavely and carefully, smiling even through “Blue Christmas.” New Music Releases of the Season, From Jazz to Gospel 2012-11-22T20:23:16Z

“The Four Freshmen are the most innovative and emulated jazz vocal quartet ever to grace vinyl,” Jay Warner, a music historian, wrote. Ross Barbour, a Founding ?Freshman,? Dies at 82 2011-08-24T05:00:33Z

But the jazz festival programme had been less clear in its description of the gig, hinting at Reed's Velvet Underground past. Lou Reed booed in Canada for free-improv set 2010-07-05T09:08:00Z

He said there was a new folk scene in Switzerland, with influences from jazz, pop and rock. In Switzerland, a musician searches for the ‘Holy Grail’ of instruments 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Really, though, La Havas offers a lot less jazz, and a lot less trouble. This week's new live music 2012-10-12T23:05:42Z

"All That Echoes" features original songs such as "Below the Line," which draws in Latin jazz beats and sweeping ballads such as "Brave" and "False Alarms," where Groban showcases his powerful voice. Smooth-singing Josh Groban offers edgier sound on new album 2013-02-05T22:53:12Z

He and his wife, Yoko, opened a jazz club while still university students and ran it for seven years. Japanese author Murakami to DJ 'Stay Home' radio special as virus shutdown continues 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

Rock group whose music didn’t get a jazz treatment in concerts by Mayfield’s New Orleans Jazz Orchestra last fall? Test your New Orleans music knowledge 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

“You didn’t need to be a jazz lover to like their tunes,” said Linton, who was E.S.T.’s longtime sound engineer, in a recent video interview. A Posthumous Solo Album Reveals a Jazz Star’s Melancholy 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z

“Jazz without sting is in some ways like jazz without swing,” West continued. Cornel West: “Donald Trump is a horror many of us can’t wrap our minds around” 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

It was only inevitable that other young jazz musicians would start to interact more explicitly with contemporary radio. The Playlist: Mary J. Blige Sings of Self-Empowerment, Kendrick Lamar Raps About Power 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

The first city of jazz continues to produce distinctive artists, but few more appealing than the duo of pianist Tom McDermott and clarinetist Evan Christopher. Hyde Park Jazz Festival bulks up for the fall 2011-04-25T13:55:00Z

Articles in this series examine jazz musicians who are helping reshape the art form, often beyond the glare of the spotlight. Orrin Evans Has Been Playing Jazz for Years. So Why Is He a Rising Star? 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

More locally, jazz — not Abstract Expressionism — was the first American art form of international stature. Art Review: Visual Culture Out of Africa 2010-12-02T23:49:00Z

The 37-year-old Canadian is an entertainer in the 1950s mould: half jazz baritone and half comedian, with a croony repertoire of pop standards, and a basketful of bingo-hall gags, all dispatched in a tuxedo. Michael Bublé – review 2013-07-04T12:23:00Z

And it signals that when jazz becomes a luxury item, product may matter more than populism. Streams? What Streams? For Newvelle Records, Vinyl Is the Future 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

In this concert, children will learn about jazz instruments with the instructor Mr. Tim, then help take part in a jam session. Spare Times for Children for July 17-23 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

She looks more like a regular at Studio 54 than a jazz musician, with her huge afro, high-waisted baggies and black braces. Esperanza Spalding ? review 2011-07-12T18:20:00Z

After briefly attending Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Mo., he returned to St. Louis, where he played trumpet in blues and jazz bands and eventually started his own 12-piece ensemble, the Rajahs of Swing. Kelan Philip Cohran, a Musician Who Invigorated Chicago With Education and Activism, Dies at 90 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

Instead, I stumbled upon a Brazilian jazz ensemble in a speakeasy below a downtown sandwich shop. Urban bourbon: A whiskey lover’s jaunt through Louisville 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

Expect appearances from pillars of the French jazz scene. TIME's Summer 60 2011-07-15T18:25:00Z

A force in motion on the New York jazz landscape for well over a decade, Mr. Irabagon has made a series of choices that affirm this scope. Jon Irabagon Paints Tradition in New Hues 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

Almost exactly 20 years later, starting on Friday, Mr. Bernstein assembled the same band — all of them among the most respected players in jazz — for a three-night run at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola. Peter Bernstein Quartet at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

One shows a familiar face: that of the usher himself, the playwright-director-actor Rome Neal, currently playing Thelonious Monk in a one-man show at the Moldy Fig, a jazz club a few blocks away. | 'A Felony in Blue, or Death by Poker': ?A Felony in Blue, or Death by Poker? at Nuyorican Poets Cafe 2011-10-23T21:47:17Z

Elling's London shows are sold out this week, but he's back at the Aldeburgh festival on 12 June as the soloist on Guy Barker's Britten-inspired suite for jazz band and symphony orchestra, That Obscure Hurt. Take Five: John Fordham's month in jazz – April 2013-04-19T09:33:10Z

Telling the story of a jazz legend on stage through opera and classical music is an ambitious, and unexpected, undertaking. ‘Charlie Parker’s Yardbird’ at Seattle Opera offers an unlikely mash-up of jazz and opera. How well does it work? 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra expands on jazz repertory because it can. Music Review: ‘The Genius of Coltrane’ at the Rose Theater 2012-10-28T21:50:06Z

Playing the jazz standard “Stella by Starlight,” his quick single-note lines blended together like piano glissandi — meanwhile, Brown’s piano solo took the percussive tack. Review | Victor Provost will make you think of the steelpan in a completely different way 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

Below, in no particular order, are our 2010 runners and riders, a mercurial dozen that eschews token jazz entries and makes no apology for it. Mercury prize 2010: A dozen of the best 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z

There’s a sense of both joy and sadness to “Last Dance,” which surprisingly is the first album in pianist Keith Jarrett’s illustrious nearly 50-year career to hit No. 1 on Billboard’s traditional jazz chart. Review: Jazz masters evoke joy, sadness on duet CD 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

To this day, he’s still a wandering soul embracing the youth movement, still bending genres while expanding the idea of what jazz can entail. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

For his graphic designs that often resemble abstract flowers or leaves, Ludick looks to modern artists like Vassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee as well as to the jazz musicians that originally inspired them. Andrew Ludick’s Quirky Ceramics Have Serious Charm 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

She twirls her hands in the air, flashes jazz hands, and grabs her pelvis like Michael Jackson. France’s Pansexual Pop Queen Arrives 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

It was a casual-looking show, with Mr. Smith dancing in a T-shirt and shorts on an amplified platform, surrounded by Mr. Brown and a jazz trio. ‘Transformation: Rhythm’s Roots’ Explores Black History 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Ligeti also incorporated multiple influences in his études, including jazz; the complex polyphony of sub-Saharan African music; Chopin, Liszt and Debussy; and Nancarrow’s “Studies for Player Piano.” Music Review: Jeremy Denk?s Recital at the 92nd Street Y - Review 2011-12-06T23:30:10Z

The drummer Paul Motian, who died last month at 80, was revered in jazz circles for the sly, suggestive economy of his playing and the stark, deceptive ease of his compositions. Music: Jazz Records Inspired by Paul Motian 2011-12-04T04:03:06Z

How does that sit with you, that lack of attention to jazz in award shows, and elsewhere, really? Bassist Christian McBride on the return of live jazz — and the recent loss of so many legendary musicians 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

For more detail on how this affects taste, concentration, and all that coffee jazz, see below. How to make cold brew coffee — no equipment needed! 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

The club, which moved to a bigger space on Firth Street in 1968, is known as the birthplace of British jazz. A Hallowed London Jazz Club Comes to Life Onscreen 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

He saw the blues, and jazz, as an uplifting response to misery. Albert Murray, Essayist Who Challenged the Conventional, Dies at 97 2013-08-19T16:57:56Z

"The rooted music, the jazz music, it's important, but the up-and-coming DJs, bounce artists and indie bands are driving the music today." Buku music fest returns to NOLA with bigger lineup 2013-03-07T16:29:13Z

"So much great jazz is the result of the younger generation's interpretation of the older generation's work," Marsalis said in an interview before the show's opening. Delfeayo Marsalis pairs jazz, The Bard in new work 2011-01-19T22:08:08Z

Then, to wild cheers, he embarked on his first furious Afrobeat workout, a mixture of elements of jazz, funk and Yoruba rhythms that was uniquely his. Fela Kuti: Spliffs, riffs . . . and 27 wives 2010-10-26T20:31:00Z

Amir ElSaffar will bring his Two Rivers Ensemble, playing a blend of Iraqi music and contemporary jazz. Bang on a Can Marathon Moves to Brooklyn Museum 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Jordan's best known work was an upbeat reworking of So What by jazz legend Miles Davies. Guitarist Ronny Jordan dies aged 51 2014-01-15T09:40:11Z

Without it we would never have had, among other things, the civil rights movement, jazz, Michelle Obama or Baldwin himself. What the Church Meant for James Baldwin 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z

Rajagopalan works in the classical Carnatic style, but takes a keen interest in collaborating with jazz musicians and players from other cultures. Dafnis Prieto to join world musicians in special quartet | Concert preview 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

She believes her acting experience has helped enhance her jazz singing. Molly Ringwald rediscovers her jazz roots 2013-04-18T16:01:04Z

On Thursday, the club will host a rare show of jazz music. Zubatto Syndicate plans to jazz up Seattle's Crocodile nightclub 2010-04-13T22:57:00Z

He began taking piano lessons when he was 7 and joined his brother’s six-piece jazz band as a singer when he was a teenager. Mark Murphy, an Unconventional Jazz Vocalist, Dies at 83 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

“Elliot gave me a cool, little Califone record player and he exposed me to a lot of African music, jazz and reggae,” she says. Wild Belle a brother-sister combo on the rise 2012-09-11T04:53:00Z

What you might not notice is that the jazz trailblazer is the spectral, ornery muse for the entire restaurant. Who's rocking to the music? That's the chef 2012-04-26T04:30:48Z

Meantime, his focus is on touring show in which he sings Broadway standards with a backing jazz band. Life after 'Glee': Matthew Morrison on his dream role and his national concert tour 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

The formation of the foundation was partly Mr. Smith’s response to obituaries and tributes that misleadingly described Ms. Mercer as a jazz singer. Donald F. Smith, Champion of Cabaret, Dies at 79 2012-03-13T23:34:25Z

The Blue Note Jazz Festival will celebrate its fifth anniversary in June, with headliners including the pop-R&B singer Natalie Cole, the blues legend Buddy Guy and the venerable South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim. Blue Note Jazz Festival to Mark Fifth Anniversary With a Wide-Ranging Lineup 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

On their first official date, Bria Skonberg, the jazz trumpeter and vocalist, and Matthew Papper, who would later become the artistic director of Town Hall, circumnavigated Manhattan in a yellow cab. Drawn to a Jazzwoman and Her Trumpet’s Clarion Call 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

Yet the interplay between established jazz figures and the impressive student orchestra was often gripping. Best Classical Music of 2021 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

Some specialize in medieval music, others in jazz or barbershop. Acclaimed composer Morten Lauridsen comes home to the Pacific Northwest, as Seattle Sings Choral Festival pays tribute 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

Brooks, who grew up in Detroit playing basketball and in jazz bands, was in a pivotal place in 1970. A 1970 Live Album Offers a New Perspective on Roy Brooks’s Jazz 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z

“It was a three-day marathon of happiness, jazz performers and a band who came from Rome,” Ms. Pulitzer said. They Overcame Marriage Fears 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

Crowder Pea Succotash, jazzed up with fresh thyme and red bell pepper, is set to become a new classic Southern side. Side Dishes for Entertaining 2010-02-19T23:29:00Z

Ms. Wicks was a regular presence in New York jazz clubs in the 1970s, accompanying singers like Anita O’Day, another rhythmic iconoclast whose vocal style she echoes. Music Review: Patti Wicks?s Jazzy Turn at the Metropolitan Room 2010-06-15T22:48:00Z

Recorded with a large ensemble, the music has a hustling, declaratory spirit and a broadly Pan-African take on acoustic jazz, with touchstones spanning from the Antilles to the Eastern Cape of South Africa. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

She has developed a distinctive improvising style that incorporates glissandos, pert slides and sly references to historical jazz licks. Bellevue Jazz Festival kicks off with African beat 2011-06-02T20:17:04Z

It’s not surprising, then, that discoveries from jazz’s archival past can sometimes feel as if they have so much to do with its present. Albums From Rick Ross and Keith Jarrett 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

Few moments spoke more directly to what jazz is about, as a music and a practice. What Winter Jazzfest Says About Where the Music Is Going in 2020 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

So she moved to Los Angeles and earned a master’s degree in vocal jazz performance at the University of Southern California. A ‘Hamilton’ Star Discovers Lunatic Comedy With ‘Girls5eva’ 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z

A 2009 revival of "Pippin" at the Mark Taper Forum found new communicative purposes for an army of Bob Fosse jazz hands. Deaf West revisits 'Spring Awakening' with fresh vigor at the Wallis 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

Both Matassa and Johnson are genuine jazz singers — they improvise, they swing, they draw deeply from the blues — but they could not be more different. Review: Album releases by Greta Matassa and Kelley Johnson show two Seattle jazz singers at the top of their game 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

But although the fabrics were those familiar for men’s suiting, a jolting mix of houndstooth and Prince of Wales check in one outfit jazzed up the strict severity. Special Report: Fashion: The Post-Feminist Armani 2011-02-28T18:41:47Z

“The history of modern dance has been mainly written by Americans, and musical theater, like jazz, is at the core of the culture,” she said. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, the Passionate Formalist 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

It will be titled “Piece of Sky,” he said, after one of two original songs; the other tracks include standards and “some surprises, contemporary songs we made into jazz songs.” Raven O, a Nightlife Fixture for Four Decades, Takes a Final Bow 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

The Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival, where jazz masters adjudicate and mentor elementary, junior high, high school and college students at the University of Idaho, in Moscow, got underway Wednesday. Garfield, Roosevelt and others honored at Hampton fest 2011-02-26T08:00:05Z

Local blues and jazz musicians are a Friday night attraction, but chef/owner Michael Le's "modern Vietnamese cuisine" is the daily draw. Lakeside Bistro draws South End diners with its Vietnamese inspired cuisine 2010-03-18T20:53:00Z

Martinez each performed two dances, one of which was the all-important freestyle number where anything goes, except jazz hands, which always remain. Dancing with the Stars: Season Thirteen's Final Performances 2011-11-22T14:00:04Z

Returning to New York, he followed the wishes of his father, Martin Goldman, a lawyer and jazz club owner, and enrolled through the G.I. Theodore Mann, Off Broadway Producer, Dies at 87 2012-02-25T16:55:13Z

Her work engages with drone music as well as with free-improvisation textures familiar from the outer reaches of experimental jazz. She’s Your Guide to the Sound World of Fluxus 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

It fluently covers a spectrum of dance idioms: jazz arm gestures, Cuban hip motion and the intricate petite batterie of ballet jumps are just three of the most unmistakable. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at City Center - Review 2011-12-07T22:26:02Z

The one that hit home the most is just thinking about New Orleans — the idea of the celebration of life and the jazz funeral. A Requiem, Derailed by the Pandemic, Arrives When It’s Needed Most 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

About 120 guests, including the nonagenarian jazz impresario George Wein, the MacArthur Genius violinist Regina Carter and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka watched. She Sang. So Did His Heart. 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

At night, musicians and performers swarmed the apartment to watch Hendrix play, and braver ones — such as the jazz musician Roland Kirk — would join in. Hendrix and Handel Slept Here: A Museum’s Strange Bedfellows 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

As a teenager in the late 1940s, he organised club sessions that mixed live music with 78rpm recordings of the groundbreaking jazz then coming from the US. Lol Coxhill obituary 2012-07-11T17:19:52Z

There is no longer any justification for giving space to classical music, jazz, dance, or any other artistic activity that fails to ignite mass enthusiasm. The Fate of the Critic in the Clickbait Age 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Born in Georgia and raised in New Jersey, Moody became one of the greats of American jazz. Jazz great James Moody dies of cancer, age 85 2010-12-10T20:16:00Z

Here is a brief selection of high points, a dozen tracks from his late-1950s beginnings to 2007, including some of the most durable and influential jazz of the 20th century. Ornette Coleman’s Greatest Hits 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

This is a jazz solo that overstays its welcome. IQ84: A Murakami Novel Sans Murakami 2011-10-31T09:00:03Z

With an emphasis on the music of 16th- and 17th-century Spain, the group brought to its concerts an improvisatory spirit that was as simultaneously freewheeling and tightly controlled as a jazz performance. Montserrat Figueras, Catalan Soprano, Dies at 69 2011-11-28T00:04:04Z

Cleaver is a drummer of booming power and utter sensitivity, equally at home playing straight-ahead jazz or improvising freely. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

The jazz players knew their musicianship deserved acclaim – yet it still felt too good to be true, and their delight at their sudden validation wrestles with an instinct to distrust. Stephen Poliakoff on Dancing on the Edge: 'I can come across as arrogant' 2013-01-27T18:00:01Z

Spreading holiday cheer through pop, jazz, classical, world fusion and gospel numbers, they hit five spots in all. Before 'Late Late Show,' Angel City Chorale had L.A.'s skid row 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

At Tramps in the 1980s, he produced “Tonka Wonka Mondays,” where unknowns performed jazz, rock and world music for professional critics, and a house band headed by David Soldier backed up invited jazz avant-gardists. Giorgio Gomelsky, Impresario Who Gave the Rolling Stones Their Start, Dies at 81 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Mom called in her takes on last night and was really jazzed about some of the performances. 'American Idol' Top 10 is Timmy's World, and the rest of them are just living in it. 2010-03-31T16:02:00Z

Check my preview/interview where he explains how his Seattle jazz roots factored into "Dreams Come True." Six music happenings this week 2011-10-03T18:36:30Z

As funny as they might be, I came up in music, in rock and jazz, so I would be like, “They don’t understand about performance.” Andrew Dice Clay wants you to know he’s not a sexist: “I have never judged any girl—wife, girlfriend, fiancée—for what they want to do with me in the bedroom” 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

His concerto marshals familiar tropes from jazz, blues and folk music in an exuberant synthesis that is neither forced nor hackneyed, as such quotes too often are. Review | BSO, after choppy summer, embraces fate and voodoo in exuberant opener 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z

In short, it was fabulous: not really improvising, but suggesting the marathoning spirit of high-impact free jazz; not really composition, but held together with the technique and concentration of grindcore drumming. Music Review: A Fusillade of Sound Made for One Noisy Night in Greenwich Village 2010-09-27T21:13:00Z

One the most soulful, swinging and intense old-school trumpeters in jazz. What's up with nightlife this week 2012-11-29T21:34:16Z

But I was there for neither skiing nor wellness; I was there for jazz. Hot jazz on a cold mountain: a festival on Austria's ski slopes 2013-01-17T11:11:00Z

Lullabies and ballads are punctuated by a jazz number with a spectacular piano solo, and when bassist Byron Isaacs takes over the vocals they even prove they can get a little nasty. Olabelle 2010-06-17T11:27:00Z

Charles — who is also a member of the prestigious SFJazz Collective — has also been working recently with a big band, applying his hybrid musical identity to a classic jazz format. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

His daughter and manager, Devra Hall Levy, said her father's prowess as a jazz guitarist overshadowed his skills as an arranger and composer, reflected on such albums in the mid-1990s as "Textures" and "By Arrangement." Jazz guitar master Jim Hall dies at 83 2013-12-11T14:40:49Z

Things have rarely been simple for genius Black musicians in America, but for a woman in jazz, things were especially tough. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

Ms. McPartland was a gifted musician but an unlikely candidate for jazz stardom. Marian McPartland, Jazz Pianist and NPR Radio Staple, Dies at 95 2013-08-21T14:13:55Z

As a choreographer for his own troupe and other companies, Mr. Benjamin specialized in the form of modern dance known as jazz dance. Fred Benjamin, Teacher of Jazz Dance, Dies at 69 2013-12-19T23:46:23Z

"I'm getting frizzier and frizzier," wailed Nuka as I sat in the bar later pondering which band to see that night – favouring some New York freeform jazz over a more classical quartet in Bad Gastein. Hot jazz on a cold mountain: a festival on Austria's ski slopes 2013-01-17T11:11:00Z

“It’s got that real jazz room feeling that’s hard to describe. It reminds me of when I was a kid and how the clubs used to be.” Smoke Rises: A Jazz Room Returns on the Upper West Side 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

Or, follow the sounds of Latin jazz to Guayusa, just next door. The 41 Places to Go in 2011 2011-01-07T21:03:56Z

For all his talent, Mr. Thompson was largely unheralded beyond the smoky realm of jazz nightclubs. Sir Charles Thompson, jazz pianist who bridged swing and bebop, dies at 98 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

Connick, a respected jazz singer and musician, proved adept as a mentor in several "Idol" appearances. 'American Idol' taps Lopez, Connick as judges 2013-09-04T23:04:14Z

Eliot and Frank O'Hara, who wrote about painting and literature, and Philip Larkin, another accomplished poet, who also wrote on jazz. Criticism -- what is it good for? 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Today, the division of jazz studies, part of the university’s College of Music, offers bachelor’s and master’s of music degrees in jazz. Leon Breeden, Jazz Educator, Dies at 88 2010-08-14T04:45:00Z

We talked about places to meet people and all that jazz. Date Lab: Keep calm and meet your soul mate. Or not.

But it's a shame that people think jazz is relentlessly challenging, or that it's trying to be a club they can't join. Kurt Elling, jazz singer 2012-11-14T09:46:03Z

There's also a chance to enjoy some leftfield approaches to laugh-making, including a new experimental act from Robin Ince and Josie Long, plus an infectious blend of jazz and oddball comedy from The Horne Section. This week's new comedy 2012-07-06T23:05:25Z

Amid the gang violence and poverty of Chicago's South Side, a collection of young soul, funk, hip-hop and jazz musicians has converged as the Social Experiment. Essential albums of 2015: Bjork, Kendrick and 8 others on the edge of pop 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

That range is evident on his album for Delphian, due out in September, a record that at some points sounds like a dragon awakening, at others like avant-garde jazz. Bringing Ancient Sounds Back to Life 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

I used to play the flute when I was young and listened to a lot of jazz. Anja Schneider's favourite tracks 2012-12-08T00:05:47Z

A sharp young jazz pianist with a stake in the ultramodern, Kris Bowers is also naturally a student of his chosen tradition. Playlist: Sonny Rollins and Jamie XX Have New Albums 2014-05-04T01:50:35Z

They have become something of a sensation, and the album is likely to be one of the year’s most-talked-about releases from Britain’s thriving contemporary jazz scene. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

“It lifts everything up to have standards that we all play that are written by our peers, and I just feel like that’s missing a little bit,” Salvant said of the contemporary jazz scene. Cécile McLorin Salvant’s Album Tackles a Newer Archive: Her Own 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

The dancers make visible the sound, a seamless selection of jazz, house, hip-hop and R&B; the musicians get up and dance. LaTasha Barnes: Let the Circle of Influence Be Unbroken 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

It was jazz from a piano-bass-drums trio, with the harmonic and rhythmic complexities of hard-bop and the melodic grace of Brazilian pop. Review: Daymé Arocena Mixes a Cosmopolitan Vibe With an Earthy Tone 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

Giraudo is an Argentine bassist and composer who reinforces his love for tango with a mastery of Western classical and jazz vocabulary. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

Partly through his example in the late 1950s and early ’60s, jazz became less beholden to the rules of harmony and rhythm, and gained more distance from the American songbook repertoire. Ornette Coleman, Jazz Innovator, Dies at 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

“Autumn Leaves” isn’t a throwaway jazz exercise but a reflection on solitude and advancing time. Releases From Bob Dylan and Diana Krall 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

“We also have an amazing free jazz scene.” Hidden Gems of Europe 2012-10-12T20:14:25Z

I have a jazz band that I sing with and a quartet. Dick Van Dyke on ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ and Dancing at 93 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

The jazz critic Gary Giddins called Mr. Johnson “one of those indispensable people you never heard much about,” and few in the jazz world would disagree. Sy Johnson, Arranger Who Worked Closely With Mingus, Dies at 92 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

Times contributor Matt Cooper has rounded up a selection of events — including jazz, hip-hop, comedy and a free outdoor concert — with which to ring in the New Year. Essential Arts & Culture: New Year's culture events, art and democracy, surviving the fires 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z

Sebastian is trying to get people, young and old, to care about traditional jazz, while Mia hopes one of her many auditions will finally land her an acting gig. Musical about L.A. dreamers opens 73rd Venice film festival 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

Calling itself one of the largest free, open-air music festivals in the world, this event features hip-hop, jazz, salsa and other music, largely from Latin America. Yoko Ono in Buenos Aires and Ellie Goulding in Serbia: Global Arts Guide 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

We're talking every kind of music: classical, jazz, folk, gospel, experimental fare, Native American song. 'Before Seattle Rocked': music history as social history 2011-10-27T20:10:05Z

Cliff and the show shared Cosby’s interests in African American high culture, especially jazz. So What Do We Do About 'The Cosby Show'? 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

Works like “Quartet Plus Four” for jazz quartet and string quartet, and “Peace Movement,” a concerto for guitar and orchestra, were performed internationally and widely praised. Jim Hall, Jazz Guitarist, Dies at 83 2013-12-11T03:50:57Z

Her high, gentle voice, sometimes multitracked into ghostly choirs, floated amid meditative guitars and undercurrents of jazz and exotic percussion; “Parallelograms” itself was layered with electronic sounds. New Music: Albums From Real Estate, Linda Perhacs and Nick Waterhouse 2014-03-03T23:08:37Z

The entire audience was jazzed for it and costumes and rice and toast were everywhere. Seattle’s Neptune Theatre turns 100. Here are some of your memories of times spent there 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

Joyous music: 1920s ragtime jazz, by Jelly Roll Morton. Beyond Ballroom: Twyla Tharp’s American Classicism 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

Before the Russian invasion, Lviv hosted more than 100 festivals a year, including a major international jazz festival. To House Refugees, Lviv Wants to Make Beautiful Buildings That Last 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z

A biopic about the virtuoso jazz pianist Joe Albany, his struggle with heroin addiction and his complex relationship with his daughter. The Fall Movie Preview list of films 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

Recorded March 6, 1940 — the first Ellington recording session with Ben Webster’s tenor saxophone and Jimmy Blanton’s propulsive bass completing what I would call the greatest band in jazz history. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Duke Ellington 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

Within a few years he was lecturing about jazz at music schools and writing articles about it for Down Beat, Saturday Review and other publications. Billy Taylor, Jazz Pianist, Dies at 89 2010-12-29T20:04:32Z

Almost all of the shows at Columbia City’s Royal Room, which hosts everything from jazz to pop to rock ’n’ roll, are also by donation. How to navigate the Seattle art world on a budget 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

“It’s like jazz. They create as they play, and maybe only those who can do it can understand it.” Early Cormac McCarthy Interviews Rediscovered 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

Founded 36 years ago, this was one of the original fusion companies, creating a glossy, accessible mixture of classical, contemporary and jazz moves. This week's new dance 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z

Her singing style brought comparisons to American jazz singer Billie Holiday. Grammy-winning singer Cesaria Evora dies at age 70 2011-12-17T19:52:37Z

The analysis of the link between what makes Kenny G a star and what makes him annoying is spot-on — particularly in its treatment of his relationship to jazz. ‘Listening to Kenny G’ Review: Good Sax? 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

But perhaps no recording can live up to the fierce combustion of a live jazz show. 66 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

When this ensemble is at its best, as in bassist Anderson's "Snowball," its vision of a genre-defying, post-modern jazz trio coheres beautifully. The Bad Plus could do better 2010-12-17T15:52:00Z

Mr. Bourjaily was an avid outdoorsman, a jazz aficionado and an amateur cornet player. Vance Bourjaily, Novelist Exploring Postwar America, Dies at 87 2010-09-03T05:00:00Z

A pianist originally from Cuba, he has a superb new album, “Hidden Voices,” informed both by folkloric Afro-Cuban custom and the postwar jazz avant-garde. Jazz Listings for Jan. 29-Feb. 4 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

Mr. Emmons not only mastered this teary quality but used the technique to execute dazzling runs and complex jazz chord changes. Buddy Emmons, innovator on pedal steel guitar, dies at 78 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

In 2015 the two of them were among the veteran jazz singers who recorded alongside a vocal group called the Royal Bopsters and performed with the group at Birdland in New York. Jon Hendricks, master of scat, jazz vocalization and sly lyrics, dies at 96 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

“Keith is incredibly respectful of classical music,” she said, “but as a jazz pianist he knows how to listen and react to his partner in a different way than non-jazz pianists listen.” Jazz Pianist Jarrett Goes Classical with Bach CD 2013-10-18T14:22:45Z

His album due in May, “The Horse,” uses instruments made from a horse’s skeleton and hair, along with the London Contemporary Orchestra, jazz musicians and sampled horse sounds. Taylor Swift’s ‘Lover’ Outtake, and 8 More New Songs 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

She was vital in building Nashville’s jazz music scene as a founding board member of the Nashville Jazz Workshop, where she used to teach and hold performances. Bobbe ‘Beegie’ Adair, jazz pianist, dies in Tennessee 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z

When guests first enter the property, they are greeted by a library of more than 500 albums, including jazz, blues and classic rock, such as the Clash and AC/DC. Eschewing High-Tech Hotel Amenities in Favor of Old-School Record Players 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

The tantalizing score, steeped in American jazz and German balladry, is arranged here for voices and just a single piano. Review: Mack the Knife would approve of Seattle Shakes' sharp 'Threepenny Opera' 2011-02-22T04:48:04Z

Their first voyage reveals that 1926 has at least one advantage over the early 21st century: Black jazz quartets are actually in demand. 26 Summer Shows, No Mask Required 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

In the first decade of his life, jazz pianist Joey Alexander released his first album and became the youngest person ever to be nominated for a Grammy at age 11. Piano prodigy Joey Alexander, 13, talks about second album 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z