Chicago would seem to be a no-brainer to host International Jazz Day, a joint initiative of UNESCO and the Herbie Hancock ...

Chicago would seem to be a no-brainer to host International Jazz Day, and the April 30 day itself spills out into events and ...

Mike Westbrook, who has died aged 90, was a giant of British jazz, a pianist and composer revered for his innovative, ...

The Crusaders, also known as The Jazz Crusaders, were a prolific jazz fusion group that withstood the test of time during ...

Cal Tjader's 'The Prophet' is joining the Verve Vault series later this year, getting a special vinyl reissue.

Looking back at the comedy jazz masterpiece 'The Intro and the Outro' by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, which coined the word ...

The city’s music is spiritual, searching and defiantly local, even when it spreads worldwide. Hear tracks from Yusef Lateef, ...

Ebo Taylor was not merely a Ghanaian music legend. He was one of the quiet architects of modern West African sound — a ...

Drummer with Pentangle, the folk-rock group who found fame in the 1960s with their fusion of jazz, blues and traditional songs ...

In postwar America, an epidemic of heroin addiction swept the world of jazz. Greats who developed a habit included John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Miles Davis, and Charlie Parker. Nowadays, jazz has an ...

There's a reason historians keep circling back to jazz. Not because it's the most commercially dominant genre today - ...

Revered African American dance company set sail for 'Jazz Island,' tackled a table-top 'Embrace,' and renewed a stone classic ...