The Western Jazz Collective is a seven-member co-op group that actually hails from America's Midwest—more specifically, Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo—where the ensemble's crew serve as ...

The annual Jazz Fest in Downtown Jacksonville returns on May 22nd -- and the music doesn’t stop when it gets dark. Related: The Roots, Janelle Monáe, and more to perform at the 2025 Jacksonville Jazz ...

If you think the daytime New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is jam-packed with music, you’re right. But after dark, music venues across the city are just as busy. As with the festival itself, you ...

With pandemic lockdown a fading memory, Nashville’s jazz and blues fans and artists saw a lot of revival and celebration throughout 2023. Nashville Jazz Workshop, a vital part of the North Nashville ...

The recording opens metronomically, with eight repeated notes on a string bass, each pulling you in closer. The piano enters, then the drums. After playing the melody, a familiar and endearing Beatles ...

Given just days to pack up after President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 in February 1942 empowered the military to detain and relocate Japanese Americans living on the West Coast, ...

All across India, jazz now thrives in a growing network of clubs and bars, the nightly engine rooms that sustain the scene. When the large festival stages are packed away, the music finds a more ...

Music lovers are filling The Elbow in downtown Jacksonville this weekend as the Jacksonville Jazz Festival continues into the night with its After Dark event. While the festival has drawn strong ...

Chet Baker had $1.25 in his pocket when ,he came home from Europe last month. He scuffled around Manhattan for three weeks before he found his first night’s work; he spent the time rounding up haircut ...