Jazz

April is Jazz Appreciation Month. And, at Washburn University, the Director of Jazz Studies Craig Treinen is not letting the month pass by. Washburn University students play some jazz...

Rome, Italy (AHN) - Jazz clarinetist, composer and arranger Tony Scott, who worked with such legendary musicians as Charlie Parker and Billie Holiday, died Wednesday in Rome, Italy. He was 85...

It was the lack of expectations. Or it could have been the lack of light, of space, of seating. I sat on a cushion on the floor of a small, musty room. The walls bore that single-line watermark, the signature of Hurricane Katrina...

Earlier this year in New York, guitarist Pat Metheny performed at memorial concerts for two tenor saxophonists, Dewey Redman and Michael Brecker, who died four months apart...

Cigarette in hand and saxophone on lap, jazz icon Dexter Gordon seems lost in thought, while smoke billows gently from his lips...

NEW ORLEANS -- One of the jazz world's foremost learning institutions will move here from Los Angeles, and those involved hope it will ensure the genre has a future in the city where it was born...

NEW ORLEANS One of jazz's most prestigious organizations is on its way to the genre's spiritual home. NEW ORLEANS One of jazz's most prestigious organizations is on its way to the genre's spiritual home...

ROME -- Jazz musician Tony Scott, a clarinetist, composer and arranger who worked with such greats as Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker, has died, the House of Jazz said Saturday. He was 85...

The publicity material for Faithless proudly displays figures on how their million-selling greatest hits has easily beaten "best of" albums by all the other major dance acts...