In May of 2025, Barcelona’s internationally praised Sant Andreu Jazz Band, consisting of young musicians ranging from ...

After making a living as a musician for 56 of his 69 years and having performed in 101 countries around the world, you’d ...

Dear listeners of Le Music Hot, I’ve got a surprise for you this month! My erstwhile collaborator Hal Smith is wending his ...

Since its formation in 1986 by the late Johnny Parth, the Document label has compiled a rather huge catalog with the goal of ...

Throughout its history, jazz musicians have often drawn its repertoire from other sources, transforming the music into jazz.

Veteran British jazz drummer John Petters, who produces many of the Upbeat CDs, previously compiled Swinging Down Memory Lane ...

We’ve all heard many of the jazz history’s more accomplished musicians resist explaining the creative process behind their ...

A century ago, they were undoubtedly one of the biggest names in broadcasting in the UK, Europe, and large parts of the world ...

By the time the 23-year-old Louis Armstrong arrived in New York in 1924, that city had become a vital proving ground for jazz ...

Here is the globe’s foremost gathering of classic jazz musicians and fans in a three-day concert series featuring live music ...

Few great musicians, either popular or “classical,” have been so historically “hard done by” as Gertrude “Ma” Rainey. Until ...

While dance music was always much more popular in Great Britain in the 1920s and ’30s than jazz, even the top society bands ...