Over the years a handful of rock era tunes have entered into jazz vocal repertoire including "Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell), "Still Crazy After All These Years (Paul Simon) and "New York State of ...

Since emerging onto Philadelphia's jazz scene, vocalist Joanna Pascale has established herself as a compelling and skilled vocalist. At just 24 years old Joanna already has a working repertoire of ...

Swing Strings: Five Jazz Violinists The violin was partly responsible for bringing non-Americans to jazz. In the very early days of the genre, it was a European, Stephane Grappelli, who really ...

Inspired by their love of the jazz and swing music of almost a century ago, Lake Street Dive singer Rachael Price and guitarist Vilray (who goes by that single name) began performing as a duo in ...

The orchestra proves to be an educational tool as well as an entertaining unit, applying the principles of ballroom swing and jazz repertoire to the recording.

Sir Charles Thompson, a jazz pianist of supple power who bridged the swing and bebop eras while performing alongside luminaries of both styles, and who helped compose the much-recorded bebop ...

In everything he composed in his too-brief career, George Gershwin never strayed far from jazz. He loved the new, audacious music that he heard in Harlem nightclubs in the 1920s, and it is the fres… ...

This kind of swing is typical of jazz and related styles of music developed in the early 20th century, but it was also used by some 17th-century musicians (“notes inégales”).

Neon Swing X-perience founder Mike Urick is reviving The Modelaires, a band founded during the 1940s by his late grandfather, Mike Cilli.

THE CAMEL CITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA’S HOLIDAY CONCERTS ARE HAPPENING AT 530 AND 8 P.M., BOTH PERFORMANCES WILL BE AT UNC SCHOOL OF THE ARTS. YOU CAN VISIT THEIR WEBSITE.

No other orchestra in America looks, sounds or acts quite like Orbert Davis’ Chicago Jazz Philharmonic. For though various bands play Third Stream repertoire — a term that loosely refer… ...