The Cutting Edge Big Band will stage a showcase performance at the Cornerstone Theatre on Friday, June 20, at 7.30pm.

Now in its 49th year, the Fayette Community Chorale—formerly known as the Fayette Choral Society— presented Saturday night, ...

The cross-genre musician’s style has an upbeat refinement to it. It’s part of the history and soul tradition he makes his own ...

In an interview with the Birmingham Post-Herald toward the end of his life, the bewilderingly brilliant jazz composer Sun Ra described his music in so many words.

"There was something really funny about it to me because Sultans, they absolutely weren’t," said Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler.

Kevin Shields was born; Stevie Wonder recorded his second album; Dusty Springfield released a song that would be a hit; Elton ...

Saxophone and flute great James Moody became an international jazz star in 1949. He continued to record and tour around the ...

Marsalis, himself a jazz trumpet icon, Irvine with a jazz ensemble and pianist Cecile Licad to play live as a silent film ...

This year was the 30th anniversary of the event, named after jazz pioneer Duke Ellington. Band members got to attend five days of workshops with some of the biggest names in jazz and then perform ...

Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard performed at the Blue Morocco in 1967 with other top jazz artists like Bennie Maupin, Kenny Barron, ...

He was similarly enthusiastic recounting his three-year stint as a teenage member of the New Orleans funk band the Creators ... Stomp,” Charles Mingus’s “Boogie Stop Shuffle” and Duke Ellington’s ...