Performing was predestined for Tom "TomCat Trumpet" Burke. Growing up around musicians and the touring lifestyle as the son of a Broadway musician, Burke spent his early years moving around the ...

Suresh Singaratnam is a trumpeter of uncommon breadth - unique not only for the small crowd he inhabits as a virtuoso of both classical and jazz styles but also for the continuity and clarity of his ...

Clifford Brown & Max Roach,' a jazz classic and one of the earliest releases on Verve Records, is being reissued on vinyl.

The eldest son in a famous clan of jazz musicians, saxophonist/composer/educator Branford Marsalis is enjoying a robust and variegated career. Known mainly as a jazz ...

On March 7, Terell Stafford and his men were winding up a three-week U.S. tour — and, in Stafford's words, "celebrating as hard as humanly possible" at the Kennedy Center Jazz Club in Washington, D.C.

Gunther Schuller leads the NEC Jazz Orchestra in rehearsal in Jordan Hall, 1990. Schuller coined the term "Third Stream" when referring to the genre that blends classical and jazz. From jazz to ...

Antoine Reicha’s L’Arte de varier tantalises before you’ve heard a note; the composer’s Opus 57, its theme followed by 57 variations. Reicha was an exact contemporary of Beethoven and reportedly the ...

Taras Kutsenko and Alex Sino presented the classical-to-jazz crossover album Domus Solis for your GRAMMY consideration. Music supports global communications and surpasses limitations, and few genres ...

Frank Campos has always known he would be a trumpet player. "My dad was a trumpet player, so there was always a trumpet in the house. He was smart, too; he forbade me to touch it," Campos said. Every ...

LOS ANGELES — Billy Childs was all smiles in February as he walked to the backstage media center at Crypto.com Arena, cradling his sixth and most recent Grammy Award. “I always had in mind that I didn ...

Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah, who performs Memorial Day weekend during the Atlanta Jazz Festival, grew up in New Orleans, a member of one of the first families of New Orleans music. His grandfather was ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Tigertown Classic Jazz delivered the penultimate performance for the Princeton Public Library ...