Few artists have had the same cultural impact as jazz master Miles Davis, but if anyone could rival his revolutionary power, it was pianist Duke Ellington.

Renowned clarinetist Ben Redwine agrees, you can’t teach someone how to play jazz in an hour because it's a feeling, but you but you don’t forget it when it’s good. Redwine will join a host of ...

In New York City this evening several greats from the world of jazz are being honored. Arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown talked recently to one of them. Nancy Wilson began singing professionally at age ...

Twenty-four seconds into Cole Porter’s “What Is This Thing Called Love?” which opens the new two-disc release “In Harmony” (Resonance), trumpeter Roy Hargrove states the melody before setting off on ...

The National Endowment for the Arts is enhancing its Jazz Masters program by organizing an annual tour and collaborating on a CD project and radio profiles of its honorees. NEA Chairman Dana Gioia ...

"We were always looking for our own sound," alto saxophonist Gary Bartz recently affirmed. "We did not want to sound like anybody else." Speaking with The Late Set, a WRTI podcast, Bartz was referring ...

A Baton Rouge concert series celebrates 10 years in 2016. The Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge has announced its lineup for its 10th Anniversary of River City Jazz Masters concerts. The lineup ...

Fresh from winning great reviews in Australia, Jazzmeia Horn is touring the U.S. through early December. The Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter’s end-of-year concert dates include her Manship ...