Immanuel Wilkins, an alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader and Blue Note recording artist based in Brooklyn, New York, is ...

What would a 200-piece orchestra including three contrabass saxophones, five tarogatos, solovox, bass marimba, electric ...

Reinforcing modern jazz’s interaction with other genres associated with Black American music remains a hallmark of the ...

Tomorrow, Sept. 23, is the 100th anniversary of John Coltrane’s birth. In honor of the tenor and soprano saxophonist’s ...

In 1968, Geordie Hormel purchased the 22,000-square-foot Masonic Temple in West Los Angeles for $125,000. He was the heir to the giant Hormel meatpacking company, yet he had no interest in pursuing ...

Nicole Zuraitis has written a five-part album that combines many aspects of popular music — jazz, poetry and a few standards ...

A tribute to John Coltrane is one thing, but there is much more to the iconic saxophonist’s 100th anniversary celebration ...

The Hyde Park Jazz Festival will take place for the 20th time on the final weekend of September 2026. Beginning half past noon on Saturday, Sept. 26, and ending at 6 p.m. the next day, it will host ...

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There are many roads to jazz, as any collection of fans will demonstrate. But for many of those fans, whose age today can fall anywhere between 10 and 80, that road has been paved with issues of ...

NEW YORK—I have interviewed Thelonious Sphere Monk. It’s not like having seen Pinetop spit blood or delivering the message to Garcia. But on the other hand, it’s at least equal to a scoop on the true ...

Choosing a college to attend can be one of life’s big decisions. But once that’s decided, there’s the question of which major(s) to pursue at one’s chosen educational institution. DownBeat spoke with ...