The Modern Jazz Quartet was a major jazz institution, a band that, counting a seven-year “vacation,” lasted 43 years. During a time when jazz musicians were stereotyped as unreliable, rarely sober and ...

Some Nation writers went out of their way to avoid discussing race in their critiques of the new music, even as loaded ...

The recently announced 2025 North American leg of the band's "Dark Matter" tour includes several springtime dates in the ...

He began performing professionally in his teens and studied music theory and piano at the ... Metheny even called Hall “the ...

Modern Future blends EDM, pop, and trap into their own unique sound. Coming from both rock, jazz and hip hop backgrounds ... head-turning and electrifying tracks. Their music has been equated to "the ...

You have people like Cal Tjader, and you have a whole host of other modern jazz musicians that congregated around Brubeck - it was almost a Brubeck school. SMITH: So, was Dave Brubeck the pioneer ...

The instrument hasn’t always been a central player in jazz, but the best guitarists have taken up the challenge of finding ...

The multi-faceted singer was on track to become a full-fledged jazz singer until his early commercial success in the 2000s ...

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 ...

The pair recorded Bradley's life story and artistic process, both deeply inspired by modern Jazz music, over the course of changing seasons. In this intimate portrait, Bradley’s is the sole ...