The Steven Feifke Trio playing at Birdland is always worth catching. Look for them next time around, and read a review of ...

From traditional jazz trios to global sounds and fusion acts, the festival celebrates the freedom that lies at jazz’s heart.

An All-American Night of Jazz,” will run from 7 to 8:30 p.m. and feature the Delmarva Big Band performing music inspired ...

Bird helped usher in bebop and transformed the alto saxophone into an instrument of startling possibility. Here’s an 11-song ...

Joe Negri, who was best known for his role as Handyman Negri on "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," has reportedly died at the age ...

Billy Porter, Wayne Brady, Sting and Suzan-Lori Parks are all slated to star on Off Broadway stages this month.

The great Sonny Rollins passed away at the age of 95. He won the Downbeat critics poll for best tenor saxophone player seven times. In the late 1940s, when most young jazz saxophonists favored a light ...

Sonny Rollins, the jazz legend dubbed the Saxophone Colossus known for his inimitable improvisational skills, has died at the ...

Charlie Christian made the art of the electric guitar solo stick, years before rock music would even become a mainstream ...

Ella Fitzgerald was a woman affectioned by many names: The “First Lady of Song”, “Queen of Jazz”, and “Lady Ella”. Rising to fame with the Chick Webb Orchestra, her voice was an instrument heard all ...

Critic Kevin Whitehead reviews biographies of two musicians who transcended jazz, and to whom recognition was slow in coming: James P. Johnson, born in 1894, and Alice Coltrane, born in 1937. This is ...