Malou Oheix, a 27-year-old singer from Nantes, France, took first place at this year’s Herbie Hancock Institute International ...

Why do standards endure? Duchess, Yoko Miwa & Mikayla Shirley and Lizz Wright & Kenny Banks Jr. offer very personal reflections on the love of performing classic secular and gospel songs. It’s ...

Huntertones returned to the old-school way of recording for its latest album, Transmission. All six bandmates were in one ...

The Marcus Belgrave Story, bassist Endea Owens discusses a difficult chapter in her life during which she questioned whether ...

Pat Senatore, a well-regarded bassist and club owner, died Sept. 8 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 91. He grew up in the ...

The pairing of Terence Blanchard and Ravi Coltrane was billed as “The Miles/Coltrane Legacy,” a tour celebrating the twin centennials of 2026, focusing on the sounds and spirit they produced together ...

Herbie Hancock and jazz impresario Darlene Chan were honored at a September gala in support of the L.A. jazz club Sam First. (Photo: Craig Allyn) In 1968, Geordie Hormel purchased the ...

Rodney Jordan (left) and Marcus Roberts. A generation ago, high school music students thinking about applying to jazz studies programs at the collegiate level had two choices in terms of a degree: ...

Marcus Miller, Boney James and Kenny G hanging together on the Smooth Jazz Cruise. (Photo: John Abbott) The Celebrity Theater. (Photo: Courtesy Signature Cruise Experiences) Christian McBride digs ...

There’s an old joke about how the drummer is usually the first player to arrive at the gig and the last to leave due to the mechanics of setting up their respective instrument, while the rest of band ...

“The greatest honor for me as a trumpet player is to have learned enough to know how great Louis Armstrong actually was,” said foundation president Wynton Marsalis, who spoke and performed at the gala ...

Everything about pianist Ben Markley’s new large ensemble project feels classic. (Photo: Courtesy Ben Markley) A recent caller to my radio show expressed surprise that big band was music still being ...