What do you mean? GIOIA: You've gotta realize that when Dave Brubeck began forming a modern jazz movement in Northern California, this was a radical departure for the area. There had been a very ...

From Orrin Evans' big 50th birthday celebration to a Roscoe Mitchell-Tyshawn Sorey twofer at Solar Myth, it'll be a very ...

Gemma Warren Of all the cities Laufey has traveled to after a whirlwind year so far, it's London that will never fail to give the modern jazz singer the butterflies. The Icelandic-Chinese singer a ...

“I dreamed about being born in medieval times,” says composer Yelena Eckemoff. Yelena’s newest album is not a rendering of early-music tropes in modern jazz feels. Rather, in her writing on this album ...

During the 1940s, jazz gradually parted ways with popular music. A new generation of modern jazz performers known as beboppers developed a style of lightning-fast improvisation meant for serious ...

Paul Dietrich is a Midwest-based trumpet player, composer and educator striving to make music that synthesizes the sounds of classic and modern jazz, Western classical music, folk, progressive rock ...

Mariage subtil entre danse contemporaine et rythmes afro-américains, la danse modern’jazz est un sport qui requiert une grande discipline. Né dans les années vingt aux États-Unis de la ...