The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, a new book from the journalist Liz Pelly, the playlist is the ...

Musicals have stood out as a landmark genre in cinema ever since the first film with sound, The Jazz Singer. Since then, ...

As we journey towards our next Mystery Artist, we find that in the early 20th Century, the US was a veritable "melting pot" of Afro-Caribbean and Latin music styles. But why? And can we trace this ...

Exactly 100 years ago this winter, two recordings features Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet marked the triumph of New ...

Greensky Bluegrass, from Kalamazoo, Mich. aptly drops prog and jam band songs in its sets. These include Pink Floyd’s “Time” and the Dead’s “Jack Straw.” The group’s most recent album is 2022′s Stress ...

The pianist leads his ensemble in two suites of his own and the final commissioned work of the great jazz composer Carla Bley ...

The legacy of jazz came to life in the Averitt Center's recent performance, where The Jazz Legacy Project celebrated the ...

A century ago, the prosperous, post-World War I “Jazz Age” drummed out one tumultuous social change after another. On the ...

Ray Draper was an influential American jazz tubist known for his work in the mid-20th century. Born on February 7 ... s tombstone to describe the tubaist’s trials in life and music. Killed in a ...

Dexter Gordon and Slide Hampton’s jazz album “A Day in Copenhagen”—piped into the galleries—is the principal soundtrack for “Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century,” at ...

US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania completed their 20th wedding anniversary on January 22, 2025. It’s been two decades of togetherness for the duo, years since they crossed paths for the ...

Trane's music directly shaped R&B ... create some of the most indelible and important music of the 20th century. What is the Jazz Legacy Project? Created in 2015 after an epiphany Justin Varnes ...