What do you mean? GIOIA: You've gotta realize that when Dave Brubeck began forming a modern jazz movement in Northern California, this was a radical departure for the area. There had been a very ...

At 84, the drummer whose discography includes credits on more than 600 albums is releasing another by his long-running ...

In the Village Voice bestselling author T.J. English interviews saxophonist Darryl Yokley about his ambitious take on a literary masterpiece.

Stravinsky and Ravel responded with music that also embraced jazz styles. Folk music was also a great source of inspiration for composers like Vaughan Williams, Bartók and Messiaen. Modernism in music ...

The Santa Fe Jazz Ensemble will honor jazz composers at the annual “Jazz Up Spring” concert beginning at 7:30 p.m. March 7 in ...

A recent graduate of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Studies, Inglewood-native Devin Daniels is one of the most unique and exciting voices in LA's thriving the modern jazz scene. African American ...

Dave Ziffer completely reinvents tunes by Pat Metheny, Chick Corea, Jean-Luc Ponty, Lyle Mays, Russ Freeman, and many other modern jazz performers, using electric and acoustic guitars, a loop station, ...