All 20 color plates from Henri Matisse’s “Jazz” book are on view at the Art Institute of Chicago for the first time since being acquired by the museum in 1948.
Local artists, a historic jazz club, and the music of the indigenous Seneca Nation will be inducted into the Rochester Music Hall of Fame.
In the 1950s and ’60s, Dave Brubeck led some of the most influential U.S. State Department jazz goodwill tours, bringing his quartet to Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra' is the latest jazz classic to get an audiophile reissue as part of the Verve Vault ...
Stan Kenton Research Center, Staunton High School, and Shenandoah Conservatory hosting big band concert March 27 ...
Marcos Valle 'Samba '68' is joining the Verve Vault, getting a reissue in the heralded jazz label's vinyl series.
Laufey created a whole new world in a magical setting that can only be compared to some of pop music's legends - read the ...
By the 1970s, the area was considered one of the most affluent Black communities in the country, and it has stayed that way ...
Before albums like A Love Supreme and Giant Steps cemented his reputation as one of jazz’s most visionary figures, John Coltrane spent the late 1950s ...
With 20th-century songs by Barry Manilow, Bobby Vinton and James Taylor in his back pocket, local entertainer Ricky Howsare ...
On March 13, 2020, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The name Alan Freed may be largely forgotten now, but for several years in the 1950s and 1960s, he was a cultural trailblazer. He introduced the term “rock and roll” to mainstream US audiences in the ...