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 ...

From Orrin Evans' big 50th birthday celebration to a Roscoe Mitchell-Tyshawn Sorey twofer at Solar Myth, it'll be a very ...

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 ...

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

“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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...