WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with bassist and festival producer Mike Griot and WBGO's Blues reporter Dave Popkin about "The Soul ...

The New Mastersounds said Ta-Ta For Now to a packed house at Portland’s Wonder Ballroom, marking one of the final stops on the British soul-jazz quartet’s farewell U.S. tour. After more than two ...

Chandra Currelley is an actress and singer, who is known for her work with director and writer Tyler Perry, as she’s played many roles in a number of productions and stage plays. On July 28 and 29, ...

We sit down with Kev Choice, a classically trained pianist, rapper, composer, and educator, who has reshaped the Bay Area ...

Dial Records initiated the “tenor battle" concept in 1947 when the label brought bebop saxophonists Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray into the studio to record Gordon's composition The Chase. Prestige ...

The jazz musician was known for helping to pioneer the soul jazz sound and his 1969 recording of the protest song "Compared to What" Sadie Bell was a digital news writer on the music team at PEOPLE.

The venue for live music, located at 310 E. Main St., announced its decision on social media Thursday morning. The closure of Missy Lane's marks the second popular jazz venue that downtown has lost in ...

In the week leading up to this year’s Iowa City Jazz Fest, The Daily Iowan spoke with Damani Phillips, a local jazz saxophonist and associate professor of African-American studies at the University of ...

Almost no other instrument seems so synonymous with jazz as the sax. Listen to some classic alto playing from Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Stitt and more greats.

Arizona Jazz Fest has been canceled. The event was to have featured Al Green, Charlie Wilson, Robin Thicke and more at ...