To celebrate the softer side of jazz, AccuJazz Internet radio has introduced a new channel called “Mellow Jazz." Playing over 1,000 recordings of ballads by great jazz musicians, the channel is ...

French vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant will perform newly arranged jazz ballads May 28 at Spoleto Festival USA this year in ways not done before. With the arranging work by Darcy James Argue and ...

Excursions, Opus 20: I Un Poco allegro; Excursions, Opus 20: II In slow blues tempo; Excursions, Opus 20: III Allegretto; Excursions, Opus 20: IV Allegro molto; Four Piano Blue: I Freely Poetic; Four ...

Instrumental music, once relegated to being a background sound for certain activities, has evolved to become a key element of the way people organize their day-to-day experiences. Thousands of people ...

Beach Fossils' sound evolved quite a bit over the course of the 2010s, from a dreamy ragtag lo-fi to a more mature, immaculately sighing form of guitar-pop. None of that prepared us for the band's ...

Many of the great jazz tenor saxophonists have a ballads album that highlights their catalog. That’s true from Coleman Hawkins through John Coltrane, Stan ...