Practicing improvisation starts with learning the language: scales, arpeggios, and chord changes. Musicians study jazz ...

Kahlil Childs remembers the moment he fell in love with jazz. Although he was surrounded by the sounds of jazz, soul, blues, funk, reggae, Afro-Latin music, and old school hip-hop from the ’80s and ...

Louisiana has always been a state that dances to its own beat. That beat might be a jazz brunch in Lake Charles, Cajun dance at a traditional pig roast in Baton Rouge, or swamp pop blasting out a ...

Essentially Ellington once again brought the world’s best high school jazz musicians to New York. Over the last 30 years, the event has reshaped how jazz is taught. The atmosphere was festive at the ...

A jazz program on Chicago's Northwest Side pairs young musicians with renowned artists to hone their musical abilities while ...

Liam Shortall, also known as corto.alto, has performed in some weird places during his ten year career. “I was maybe 19. We were playing in this bar called Swing in Glasgow, which was a sleazy little ...