Wynton Marsalis takes pride in that fact -- that he and his band defied not only odds, but popular culture itself, to restore dignity and an affinity for history in jazz clubs when all was thought to ...

It was all in the music, baby. Last month, a team of judges led by jazz giant Wynton Marsalis selected NC Central University’s jazz studies program as the top college jazz band in the country. But it ...

John Coltrane said it best: "We'd all like to sound like that if we could." Coltrane was talking about fellow tenor saxophonist Stan Getz, whose singularly beautiful sound and phrasing -- sensuous, ...

American jazz sweetheart Marsalis gives readers a seat on his old septet's tour bus for a ride down memory lane (see Q&A, p. 58). It's the early 1990s, and the trumpeter is coming into his own as a ...

Prefaced by an instrumental introduction which, appropriately enough, quoted the looping, circular theme of Thelonious Monk’s “Friday the 13th", China Moses’s self-penned opener “Watch Out” was ...

The skies were a clear, radiant blue across the first weekend of the 2016 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival – April 22nd through 24th – but there was purple everywhere else as the city, its ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- Monday proved to be a bittersweet day for the Utah Jazz as their second consecutive Western Conference Player of the Week award was followed by their second consecutive loss to the ...

Social distancing measures saw the EFG London Jazz Festival Ensemble reduced from its customary 40-plus musicians, but while the textural palette may not have been quite as luxuriant as usual, the ...