The Modern Jazz Quartet was a major jazz institution, a band that, counting a seven-year “vacation,” lasted 43 years. During a time when jazz musicians were stereotyped as unreliable, rarely sober and ...

They were diverse in talent and temperament. John Lewis, the quiet and determined westerner, who told sound stories with his linear and logical blues-based pianisms; Milt Jackson, the baggy eyed, ...

Jazz and blues are often treated as one and the same — but how did one end up taking over and surpassing the other, ushering in the jazz age? That's a subject of an upcoming HBO biopic, called Bessie, ...

Jazz lovers often struggle to find fresh voices in the modern scene. Female jazz singers are reshaping the genre, bringing new energy and perspectives to this timeless art form. This blog post will ...

Jazz trumpet players have shaped the sound of jazz for more than a century, and their influence still echoes in modern music. From the raw brilliance of Louis Armstrong to the cool calm of Miles Davis ...

A lot of jazz people love The Modern Jazz Quartet, but maybe not all the time. Some of them just wait for the parts when vibraphonist Milt Jackson gets to swinging — that was also Jackson's favorite ...

“The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn’t know how other people would take it.

No one sings pain, joy, or survival quite like a blues singer. Born from the spirituals, work songs, and field hollers of enslaved African Americans, blues music rose up from the cotton fields and ...