Tucker’s jam sessions began in April, but historically date back to the ’40s, when the Harlem club ... “I mean, it’s jazz and hot dogs!” he says. By 2 a.m., Tucker and the many musicians ...

New England Conservatory (NEC) is celebrating the 40th anniversary of being America's first fully-accredited Jazz Studies Program at a music conservatory. The merriment kicked off in NEC's home of ...

Trumpeter Jack Schantz currently serves as the director of the University of Akron jazz studies program and performs actively with the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, a group for which he served as ...

But it took the jazzmen of the 1940s to transform it into the ... The Bridgeport Telegram declared “’Hot jazz is dead. Long live cool jazz!’” Life magazine profiled Dizzy Gillespie as ...

New Orleans and marching bands. Some things are inseparable. The city best known for hot jazz is a wellspring of talented musicians. Where do they all come from? Oftentimes it's great teachers ...

And it's doing so by spotlighting many acts at the borders jazz shares with hip-hop, R&B and other similar styles. "Our thing is expanding the audience for jazz," Art of Cool co-founder Cicely ...