The show that is about to be staged at the Todd Haimes Theatre is not your grandma's The Pirates of Penzance. As evidenced by ...

Gullah music's South Carolina culture is centuries old. Bands like Grammy winning Ranky Tanky are keeping the tradition alive ...

As a social-media-savvy artist who always sought to make such genres more accessible to a modern audience ... with classical music. Later on, she would develop a taste for jazz after combing ...

This April, at the National Museum of American History, we’re celebrating Jazz Appreciation Month! Check out the calendar to ...

The official music video is by Kohei Yamaguchi and features the Japanese dancer Mamiko Hosokawa. The song was first released on the album Italian Circus Story by Christoph Irniger Pilgrim and is ...

There had been a very vibrant modern jazz movement back in New York ... been about taking the less aggressive aspects of the music and making a style out of that. Now, there have always been ...

Hall's genius with a guitar had profound implications for the jazz band format, as six-strings replaced piano in the rhythm section ...

During the 1940s, jazz gradually parted ways with popular music. A new generation of modern jazz performers known as beboppers developed a style of lightning-fast improvisation meant for serious ...

Pianist Lennie Tristano was a very visible participant in the modern jazz innovations of the mid-1940s through the early 1950s, winning polls and participating in all-star jam sessions. Yet his music ...