Leigh Barker established himself on the Australian jazz scene in the early 2000s. Barker, a bass player, specialises in 1920s ...

Annie and the Fur Trappers headline the Bay State Hot Jazz Festival in Medford this weekend. Their front woman spoke to GBH Music about the magic of ‘20s jazz, and what to expect at the free festival.

Annie Linders fell in love with traditional jazz while riding a boat down the Mississippi River. There are other ways, other places to fall in love with traditional jazz, but none of them are nearly ...

That U.S.-hip-sounding line, strangely enough, is as British as “jolly good,” or “raw-ther.” It describes a musical fad that has washed over Britain. “Trad” is traditional jazz, the 1920s variety now ...

For years, purist fans of traditional New Orleans jazz have worried their favorite music is a dying art form. Oh, sure, something like trad jazz, loud and frenetic with a side helping of street funk, ...

The musicians seated closest to him nodded their acquiescence, but a few others were too busy chatting between numbers to have heard, and had to be shushed by their fellows. As Mazzy began quietly ...

Sorry to return to the Mercury prize for a second week, but this is only a passing spin-off from that much-discussed event. Observer music critic Kitty Empire, one of the Mercury judges, described the ...

Musicians who second lined through the French Quarter to kick off the third annual New Orleans Traditional Jazz Camp for Adults will hold two free concerts this weekend. One hundred and four students ...