The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation will present “Chanteuse: Celebrating New Orleans Women in Music.” This six-week concert series on Saturday nights will showcase local talents and concludes ...

Multi-platinum jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall will perform at Evansville's Victory Theatre early next year, the venue ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. At the end, everyone came out for a performance of “On the Sunny Side of the ...

When I was new to the music, all the standard histories of jazz were keen to dismiss what they derisively referred to as the “Vaudeville Blues” singers of the Jazz Age. I remember one line in ...

Over her 20-year career, Judy Wexler has earned the reputation as one of the most compelling West Coast jazz vocalists. Known for her warm voice and affective interpretation of lyrics, her repertoire ...

A note to those who feel, not without merit, that popular culture is getting so stiflingly politically correct and even “woke” that it is being strangled to death: In 1989, when I published my book ...

When thinking about jazz, it’s impossible to ignore the deep, soulful contributions of Black women who have shaped the genre into what it is today. From smooth and sultry vocals to bold, ...

Music festivals are always a wonderful way to catch talented rising stars before they launch into the stratosphere. Some lucky Savannah Music Festival concertgoers got to see jazz singing phenom ...

Auckland-based Samoan artist Lou'ana Whitney Pereira, who performs under her first name, chats to Andrew Dickens about her ...

Much of today's best Latin jazz embraces old traditions to create something new. NPR Producer Felix Contreras spotlights five female singers whose... Latina Jazz: Spanish-Speaking Vocalists Latina ...