With news of the Jazz at Richardson being “halted” in 2025, it’s perfect timing to announce the line-up for The Colored Musicians Club & Jazz Museum’s 21st Annual Queen City Jazz Fest. Not only does ...

Jazz music is an inherently elusive genre. While its roots stem from influences like European harmonics, African rhythms, ...

The artist and songwriter Romare Bearden once wrote, “The rhythms, the personal involvement, all of this is part of the jazz experience.” The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra is calling its newly announced ...

Few jazz venues have shaped the music quite like The Blue Note in New York City. Since opening in 1981, it has become one of ...

THE VIRUS. WELL, TODAY MARKS INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY, A GLOBAL CELEBRATION OF ART FORM THAT HAS SHAPED CULTURES AROUND THE WORLD, AND MANY CONTRIBUTE ITS ROOTS THROUGH RIGHT HERE IN KANSAS CITY. THE ...

The Center City Jazz Festival (CCJF) will be back for its ninth year after Philadelphia-area jazz fans clamored for its return. Forced to go dark for three years due to the pandemic, CCJF will be back ...

Teacher Brendan McMurphy, far right, watches as bassist Andrew Atkison, drummer Olin Young and saxophonist Thomas Stenzel launch into an original tune by Stenzel during an All-City Jazz Ensembles ...

From the soul-stirring sound of John Coltrane, who honed his craft while living in Philadelphia, to Dizzy Gillespie's revolutionary bebop during his early career in the city, to Grover Washington ...

Charleston Jazz — one of the Lowcountry’s cornerstone nonprofit arts organizations dedicated to performance, education and ...

The American Jazz Museum is one of my recommendations. I love jazz. They have exhibits that are nice. It's interactive, you're touching the buttons and you're feeling it and you're seeing it and it ...

Editor’s note: The article is updated with additional information about jazz radio station WDCB. Ever since musicians like Louis Armstrong, King Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton were playing at nightclubs ...