Palm Springs canceled a jazz festival over fears it would attract unruly crowds. Nearly seven decades later, the Palm Springs ...

The legacy of jazz came to life in the Averitt Center's recent performance, where The Jazz Legacy Project celebrated the ...

Shining a light on the earliest female jazz pioneers, who were erased from music history.

The Blues Trail was created nearly two decades ago with markers located at significant places that helped shape the genre.

As a teenager in 1950s San Francisco, she had been on the brink of a singing career — just like Johnny Mathis, who was two ...

The WSWS recently spoke to master musician Charles McPherson about the relationship between music, art and society.

Award-winning singer/songwriter Sue Matsuki celebrates the life and music of jazz icon and American treasure, Irene Kral, ...

influenced by Western jazz but grounded in classical Indian music, began to incorporate these new sounds into their own compositions. As jazz slowly gained traction in urban India, it adapted to the ...

The data displayed for this chart goes back to 1994, however we hope to be able to offer deeper historic information at a future point ...

take a listen to the Best of Smooth Jazz playlist on Apple Music and Spotify. Given how inherently smooth it is, it’s strange that it should provoke such extreme reactions, but the truth is that ...

Join the celebration as the United States Postal Service honors the New Orleans musician and composer Allen Toussaint with a ...

As jazz slowly gained traction in urban India, it adapted to the local context. In the 1940s and 1950s, big bands and swing orchestras became a prominent part of the Indian music scene ...