You decide who is going to play whom. It is understood ... Even when they are not soloing, members of a jazz band have to be intimately attuned to the music at all times because they never know ...

Alexander is an acclaimed poet, scholar, and cultural advocate. She is the president of the Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest funder of the arts and humanities, which recently launched a $35 ...

Jazz blends elements from varied traditions, including African and African American, religious, brass band, and blues styles. The improvisational music that results has a syncopated rhythm ...

89.9 WWNO — New Orleans Public Radio is committed to the showcase and enjoyment of great jazz music, on the air and online.WWNO3 is New Orleans' first and only 24-hour jazz music radio station ...

2024 festival Artist-in-Residence Brian Blade and The Fellowship Band will close the night, playing ... jazz band Ghost-Note to rock Detroit Jazz Festival Sunday night Sunday, Sept. 1, music ...

The Bucknell University Jazz Band offers students of all majors and academic interests the opportunity to experience modern and historically important literature in a traditional big band environment.

A book about the city published that year described him as the “leader of the band ... music” had ignited the blaze. “Hotness” is a quality often associated with ragtime and jazz—Louis ...

Norfolk State's jazz ensemble and 11 others from Historically Black Colleges and Universities are competing to open for ...

The federal government denied Clark College’s Jazz Ensemble permission to travel to Cuba one day before the group was ...

Jazz emerged as a new style of music in the early twentieth century in the African American communities of New Orleans. Jazz has its origins in blues and ragtime. Jazz features lots of ...

The Michigan Jazz Festival's annual spring fundraiser will take place on Sunday, April 13, at Schoolcraft College in Livonia. The fundraiser will feature the Latin jazz group Aguankó, and ...