Jazz musicians are the innovative artists who create and perform jazz, a uniquely music style born in New Orleans in the early 1900s. These musicians blend improvisation, rhythm, and personal ...

Ellis Marsalis Jr., the jazz pianist, teacher and patriarch of a New Orleans musical clan, died late Wednesday from pneumonia brought on by the new coronavirus, leaving six sons and a deep legacy. He ...

The idea for International Jazz Day was started by UNESCO in 2011, with support from famous jazz musician Herbie Hancock, who is also a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. The goal was to recognize jazz as ...

As part of the renovation project of McGill College Avenue in downtown Montreal, the city has announced it will create a public square and name it after world famous jazz musician Oscar Peterson. The ...

The Swiss city of Montreux is known for hosting one of the world’s great summer music festivals. With its Lake Geneva setting and facing stunning Alpine peaks, it’s a prime destination year around.

The saxophone can sound sad, fun, or full of emotion, and few other instruments show emotion as well as it does. Since Adolphe Sax invented it in the 1840s, this brass and woodwind hybrid has gone ...

Harry Connick Jr., one of Marsalis' students at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, was a guest. He's one of many now-famous jazz musicians who passed through Marsalis' classrooms. Others ...

Despite all the interesting events that happen around Toronto, the city sometimes gets a bad rep for being stale. This isn't actually the case at all, it's just that sometimes you have to look for ...

Judging by Twitter trends, the huge upset win by Esperanza Spalding in the Best New Artist category remains one of biggest stories from the Grammys. Her upset was greeted with a collective "say what?" ...

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