*Praise is pouring in from the Jazz community for the inaugural Jazz Music Awards, which had its broadcast premiere on January 1, 2024, on PBS Passport’s on-demand platform, as well as the nine PBS ...

under-recognized Black female jazz performers and composers. Dr. Angela M. Wellman is an award-winning musician, scholar, educator, and activist. As a third-generation musician, Wellman has performed ...

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photo - A celebrated saxophonist Joie Taylor has backed jazz stars like Delfayo Marsalis, Javon Jackson and Larry Coryell at Maui Jazz & Blues Festival shows. Courtesy photo Performing at the Maui ...

To listen to the wild and vivifying art jazz of Paris-based Franco-American Eva Blanche is to hear music at a crossroads — a cross-genre reinvention that places the dramatic flair and sense of ...

RED BANK, NJ — This Thursday, the non-profit organization Jazz Arts Project will launch its “Summer of Jazz” festival with a performance by the Grace Fox Big Band. Led by the "trailblazing trumpeter" ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 01: Terri Lyne Carrington performs during the ...

‘I would sing in public, and everyone would be like, “She’s got the voice of a divorced woman in the body of a 13-year-old girl,”’ says singer-songwriter Laufey Lín Jónsdóttir (Gemma Warren) Words of ...

It’s been a good year for jazz, diverse in every way—styles, influences, tastes, and demographics too. I didn’t aim the list to turn out this way, but four of the albums’ leaders are women, and five ...

In a directory of jazz venues in the metro area, Hey Nonny is on few fans’ shortlist. Heck, it may not even crack their long list. But in two short years, the downtown Arlington Heights venue has gone ...

COLUMBIA — In 2021, the University of South Carolina jazz program saw a changing of the guard. Pianist Bert Ligon, who taught at the university for the last 30 years and quite literally built the ...

It started with handwritten original big band music and a love of jazz. Sara Vaas went home to Ohio in 2021 and came back with a handful of compositions by her grandfather, a jazz musician who played ...