“I dreamed about being born in medieval times,” says composer Yelena Eckemoff. Yelena’s newest album is not a rendering of early-music tropes in modern jazz feels. Rather, in her writing on this album ...

As a social-media-savvy artist who always sought to make such genres more accessible to a modern audience ... with classical music. Later on, she would develop a taste for jazz after combing ...

There had been a very vibrant modern jazz movement back in New York ... been about taking the less aggressive aspects of the music and making a style out of that. Now, there have always been ...

Hall's genius with a guitar had profound implications for the jazz band format, as six-strings replaced piano in the rhythm section ...

During the 1940s, jazz gradually parted ways with popular music. A new generation of modern jazz performers known as beboppers developed a style of lightning-fast improvisation meant for serious ...

“He’s a continual, consummate student of the music,” Turner said of Hart ... doubles as a vivid portrait of the evolution of modern jazz. Could the young Billy Hart, growing up in Washington ...

So, let’s look at five genres that changed how modern music sounds. The Dawn of Jazz: A Foundation for Modern Sound Jazz is a significant period in musical history that arose from the lively ...

Billie Holiday was peerless when it came to conveying the emotion in a song In the 1940s, the swing era gave way to what was then known as “modern jazz” – the so-called bebop innovations of ...

Raúl Molina's Live at Ecuador Jazz Festival is a rare album that is more than just a collection of songs, it is a declaration of purpose. On his first live album, Molina carves out an artistic vision ...