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 ...

Now that the 2025 Jazz Fest lineup is out, it's time to start planning. You'll want to know about these changes to ticket ...

New Yorkers showed their appreciation for the arts this week at the 21st annual Winter Jazzfest. The vibrant sounds of jazz ...

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

The Jazz Education Network Conference (JEN) is an annual four-day event that welcomes jazz musicians and ensembles from ...

Through the years, he recorded with Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and many other important artists in the early 1950s. And he pioneered chamber jazz as a member of the Modern Jazz Quartet, starting ...

There had been a very vibrant modern jazz movement back in New York ... been about taking the less aggressive aspects of the music and making a style out of that. Now, there have always been ...

The Bucknell University Jazz Band offers students of all majors and academic interests the opportunity to experience modern and historically important literature in a traditional big band environment.

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

This exciting and versatile ensemble performs a wide variety of jazz charts from traditional big band to modern fusion. BC bOp!’s instrumental and vocal resources allow the ensemble to create a broad ...

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 ...