The University of Minnesota’s Jazz Ensemble 1 recorded eight beginner-level songs on Thursday for its first recording back since taking a break in 2023. Typically, the band only performs live, but ...

Kurt Elling – the two-time Grammy Award-winning performer and writer – will reinforce his status as a potent force in the arts world with a fall season encompassing an impressive range of projects, ...

This week's reviews divide between present work and recovered history. Two of the records come from Arkansas-based artists working at their own pace and on their own terms. The other two are reissues ...

Some musical genres, including dance and pop, are more welcoming to LGBTQ folks than others. While it's true that country and jazz have come a long way in recent years, the number of successful and ...

Morgenstern, who died Sept. 7, directed the Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies for 35 years, building a one-of-a-kind collection of recordings, memorabilia and writings. Originally broadcast in 2004.

What I was really struck by with this recording—particularly because it was from early in his career—was how much scatting Al did—how he would take the melodies of songs, and the lyrics then turn them ...

FREMONT – After sitting in an unmarked box since 1964, the unreleased pressings of Toledo-area jazz legend Cliff Murphy are finally getting attention. Clifford Murphy’s story was presented Feb. 18 as ...

At the Hot Club of New York, patrons revisit the music’s past by spinning shellac 78 RPM discs of recordings made in the 1910s to ’50s. At the Hot Club of New York, patrons revisit the music’s past by ...

Riverside: RLP 9003. Program notes by Martin Williams on container. Production notes: Originally recorded in the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress during a five-week period beginning May ...

Atlanta/LaGrange, GA - Jammates wraps recording for the upcoming Future of Jazz compilation CD, Future of Jazz - Volume #1. The CD is scheduled to hit the streets late-February 2006. Featuring some of ...