Laufey (pronounced lay-vay) grew up in Iceland as a multi-instrumentalist kid prodigy, schooled in classical as well as jazz. Now, living in L.A., she’s one of our unlikeliest as well as most talented ...

Joshua Redman is one of the most versatile saxophonists working today, having come to prominence in the early 90s and working with everyone from Quincy Jones to the Rolling Stones. His newest album, ...

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Billie Holiday was a preeminent jazz vocalist, widely appreciated during her heyday in the 1930s through the 1950s. But many fans now insist that she's the greatest of all time. The Rock and Roll Hall ...

If guitarist & singer-songwriter Coleman Mellett was "known" at all, it's for his brief yet exciting contributions to Chuck Mangione's ensemble. He played in Mangione's band between 1999 and the eve ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. This article is more than 2 years old. Jazz singer Gabrielle Cavassa, one of the ...

One of eleven children, Mary Stallings was born in San Francisco in 1939. In her teens, she began singing in San Francisco night clubs and performed with Ben Webster, Earl Hines, Red Mitchell, Teddy ...

Decades of toiling in the recording studio led to a No. 1 Billboard song in jazz circles earlier this year for Canton native Jimmy Baber. A Timken High School graduate, the 64-year-old Houston ...

Janis Siegel, a founding member of The Manhattan Transfer, will perform two sets at Ann Arbor's Blue Llama Jazz Club on Sunday, April 13. Siegel will collaborate with local musicians Ellen Rowe and ...

June Caisey found out she was going to be honoured for International Jazz Day and was thrilled – until she discovered she wouldn’t be performing on the stage. The veteran entertainer took the matter ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Givonna Joseph of Loyola University New Orleans and Gwen Thompkins of WWNO radio about the influence of opera on jazz music. And that is Jelly Roll Morton, the jazz ...