No one description of jazz adequately outlines this ... for probably a hundred years. Music of rent and house parties, after work dances, religious song, cries of street vendors, work songs ...

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Guitarist Bill Frisell, who's at Albany's Egg with trio on Saturday, finds home in jazz, but wanders full music spectrum.

His initial work was as part of The Jazz Brothers ... will always dismiss easy listening music as "mediocre," Mangione’s ...

The subgenre, Yacht Rock, is a relatively new term given to easy-listening older tunes of the 70s, 80s and 90s. HBO has now ...

Jazz Aspen Snowmass (JAS) has announced its winter JAS Café schedule, which includes three weekends of performances ...

He was a member of the original American Jazz ... body of work remains within the group context in Ornette Coleman's Quartet and Don Cherry's units. Born in New Orleans, his drum concept fitted ...

Its rendition of battle theme Last Surprise, featuring Jonah Nilsson and Button Masher, has been nominated for a freakin' ...

Jazz at Concordia is an intimate program where students and faculty work together in a nurturing ... Students can take a class from electroacoustic, or any other area of the music department. The ...

The Jazz Age glorified city life. Americans — including many African American sharecroppers from the South — were leaving their farms in record numbers to live and work in places like Chicago ...

Uman, a jazz piano instructor ... because it's music, it's all about just being intuitive and going with the flow, but there's a lot of work involved." A good ear and a knack for producing lovely ...

Golson's work is identified as hard bop, but he knew a soft side, too. (SOUNDBITE OF ART BLAKEY AND THE JAZZ MESSENGERS' "ALONG CAME BETTY") JOHNSON: Golson's genius for melody made his music cool and ...