An international research team investigated the brains of 16 jazz pianists while they played a piece from memory, improvised based on the melody, and freely improvised based on the chord changes. The ...

House Majority Whip Jazz Lewis resigned Tuesday during a special session shortly after Del. Joseline Peña-Melnyk was elected ...

We’re talking free jazz, an experiment in improvisational music that captivated the world’s greatest jazz musicians in the ...

The bassist’s reissued ‘Mingus at Monterey’ and the drummer’s previously unreleased ‘Strasbourg 82’ highlight both musicians ...

For example, improvisational music — some of which has close connections to jazz and some of which doesn’t — continues to ...

It’s been a good year for jazz, diverse in every way—styles, influences, tastes, and demographics too. I didn’t aim the list to turn out this way, but four of the albums’ leaders are women, and five ...

Minnesota sends a steep package, including 5 players and 5 picks, to Utah. From NBA.com News Services Rudy Gobert averaged 15.6 ppg and 14.7 rpg and will join fellow All-Star Karl-Anthony Towns in ...

Playing jazz alone on piano might sound hard, but it’s simpler than you think. With a few key techniques, you can make one instrument sound like an entire group. This lesson shows you how to do it ...

When we think of jazz, we think of instruments — saxophones, pianos, trumpets, trombones, clarinets, bass, drums, and guitars — blending in unpredictable ways to craft listening journeys fit for late ...

Jazz may have originated in New Orleans in the late 19th century, but New York City is where it expanded—physically, sonically, and culturally. By the 1920s, Harlem had become a national hub, where ...

Let the record state: Jazz music has not always been a gray-haired endeavor. Somewhere on the other side of the U.S. moon landing, a “swinging” tune denoted young, vivacious couples doing their ...

SAN ANTONIO – Traditional and Latin Jazz enthusiasts can swing into fall as the 42nd annual Jazz’SAlive Festival returns to San Antonio in September. The free, two-day event will return to Civic Park ...