Oregon natives like to tell visitors, “If you don’t like the weather, just wait a few minutes.” A similar admonition applied Sunday at the second day of the Playboy Jazz Festival: If you didn’t like a ...

Grammy winners banjo master Bela Fleck, bassist Edgar Meyer and tabla player Zakir Hussain composed “The Melody of Rhythm Concerto,” commissioned for the opening of the Nashville Symphony’s ...

The study of jazz in academic institutions may be a relatively modern trend, but the presence of over a hundred academics from South Africa to Russia and from America to Portugal at the Rhythm Changes ...

I took a break from the late-night gigs and got a job at Werlein's music store. There were a couple of banjos hanging up with the guitars and it was my job to take care of them. As I was cleaning one ...

Much of that was due to the material: Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1 by Shostakovich; Nikolai Kapustin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 ...

Texas is a guitar-loving state. From T-Bone Walker to Stevie Ray Vaughan and on to Gary Clark Jr., Lone Star State string slingers are front, center and in the spotlight. Howard Elkins sits in the ...