On a recent Wednesday evening, thundering percussions and the sweet whistles of woodwind instruments filled Temple University ...

Jacksonville-based HBCU Edward Waters University is making a major investment in its marching band. It has announcing a ...

Gideon Ampiere and Mike Cardozo are founders of the group Zikina. It's a fusion band combining jazz and improvisation with traditional Ugandan music. They're playing tonight at the Lake George Arts ...

Every once in a while, a single instrument arrives and rewrites the rules. Not just for music, but for culture itself. Think about it. A strip of brass and a few keys gave birth to jazz. A solid block ...

Arizona saxophonists pay tribute to the legends who made the instrument synonymous with jazz. The next installment of the ...

Considering jazz is an art form that mostly makes it up as it goes along, it's ironically appropriate that printed records—i.e., data—from the days of its birth are decidedly sparse. We know, at least ...

The Mohawk Avenue Jazz Band came together to perform the music that first inspired its members to play their instruments - challenging and uncompromised modern jazz compositions that rarely get played ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A new musical instrument drive aims to provide local kids with the gift of music while encouraging early spring cleaning. Philip Arnold, music director of the Youth Jazz ...

Some may think of big band jazz as the sound of a bygone era, but it thrives in the Southern Regional School District. Students and their teachers take the music very seriously, as evidenced by a ...