Picture the “default” jazz band we all imagine, then rewind history to see how that lineup was assembled by accident, ...

If you love jazz music and always wanted to play in a jazz orchestra, don’t give up your dreams and try out some of the easiest jazz instruments to learn. It is never too late to start learning. But ...

Today's totally fun Take Five list by Josh features some of the stranger instruments to pop up in jazz -- everything from bagpipes to conch shells. But a quick poll around the office revealed that ...

ECM regularly tops lists of the best jazz labels though their full name—Edition of Contemporary Music—would argue for a broader scope of content. A substantial number of their most popular albums, ...

Jazz is strange enough for some listeners. Dig a little deeper and it gets ever so bizarre. Throughout the music's history, particular instruments have risen to challenge of playing improvised music.

The tenor sax is a jazz instrument. The paradigmatic jazz instrument, if I may thrown in a $50 word. How many tenor sax sonatas or concertos can you think of that feature the tenor as a solo, or even ...

WEBVTT RTIST IN NEW ORLEANS. SCOT CHARLES DIVINS HAS THE STORY. NEW ORLEANS, A CITY WITH A RICH HISTORY. TWO LEGENDS ARE COMING TOGETHER TO CARRY THAT TRADITION ON. ♪ >> LEO NOCENTELLI, THE LEGENDARY ...

JEFFERSON AS MUSICIAN He was an incurable tinkerer with a keen interest in all the technical innovations for instruments, and corresponded with friends about all the new and “often peculiar things to ...

Long before jazz pianist Billy Taylor became world-famous, he planned in high school to switch to saxophone. But then he heard the new kid in school — Frank Wess — play the horn. “He’s the reason I ...

LAST YEAR. AND STUDENTS AT FERN CREEK ELEMENTARY RECEIVED A SPECIAL GIFT FROM A LOCAL JAZZ ARTIST AND THEIR TEACHER THIS WEEK, JAMEY AEBERSOLD PAID A VISIT TO THE SCHOOL ON FRIDAY AND TAUGHT KIDS NEW ...

Bass is one of the most important instruments in a jazz orchestra, being the foundation of music and the baseline of harmonies and melodies. Bass is generally considered to be a relatively easy ...