"The Jazz Singer" premiered Oct. 6, 1927. — -- It was an era that few of us would recognize today. It was the time of the “flapper girl.” Construction had just begun on Mount Rushmore and Calvin ...

Photo provided Indiana University jazz professor and professional musician Sam Butler, along with IU-trained performer, composer and arranger Garrett Fasig, were commissioned to create jazz ...

You can take singer/cellist Aleka Potinga out of Romania, but you cannot take Romania out of her musical soul. Classically trained in Bucharest, and Dublin-based since 2012, Potinga has slotted into ...

Whether reworking standards with Afro-Cuban grooves or infusing Japanese folk melodies with post-bop harmony, Inoue doesn’t just play jazz; she reinvents it. Inoue's musical signature lies in her ...

One of the more adventurous and transformative eras in jazz happened amid the societal turbulence of the mid- to late-1960s, and Miles Davis and John Coltrane were leading the way. In his new book ...

Roy Haynes. American jazz drummer and bandleader has died. Born in 1925 in Roxbury, Mass., he influenced generations of jazz drummers and helped change the direction of rhythmic improvisation. Roy ...