A Stroudsburg High School student is gaining attention after winning a prestigious honor in the music world. Now ending his sophomore year, 16-year-old Jonas Ballantyne was recently named Best Jazz ...

Swing isn't something you can simply read from sheet music—it's something you feel through phrasing, timing, and expression. The greatest jazz musicians shape every note with subtle rhythmic choices ...

As far as commercial holidays go, Record Store Day is a virtuous occasion, because recorded music is among the wonders of the world, and the survival of physical media is crucial to the future of art.

Thurston Moore is obsessed with jazz. Not the mellow, easy-listening variety that serves as background music in elevators and waiting rooms. No, Moore goes for the hard stuff: wailing saxophones, ...

When one thinks of L.A. music history, you might think of rock, surf music, hip-hop, the singer-songwriter scene, heavy metal. But beloved Westside jazz spot Sam First wants to remind people L.A. also ...

Vernon Reid, Kassa Overall, Farah Jasmine Griffin and more artists and writers share their favorites from this pianist who connected jazz music’s past and future. Credit...Illustration by Dante ...

If you want to discover how people feel about the way the world is going, don’t look to language to tell you, not to articles ...

The history of jazz music is told in hundreds of cities from coast to coast in America. From the cradle in New Orleans and the Mississippi River delta, the great migration of Black Americans northward ...

All About Jazz: Bryan tell us how you first started with music and how your path led you to become such a stellar band leader. Bryan Stovell: Well, I started as a singer, and when I was a boy soprano, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thurston Moore of the Thurston Moore Band performs during Riot Fest at Douglas Park on Sept. 12, 2015, in Chicago. (Amy Harris / ...