Exactly 100 years ago this winter, two recordings features Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet marked the triumph of New ...

One this special edition of Encore! we speak with jazz historian Dr. Richard Birkemeier, the producer and director of a ...

Jazz virtuoso Scott Robinson brings his unique '10 By Sax' performance to Pittsfield’s 10x10 Upstreet Arts Festival.

Award-winning jazz bassist, educator and mentor Hayden, at age 68, is today the youngest recipient of Detroit’s highest arts ...

Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the ...

Susan Alcorn, the revered pedal steel guitarist who brought the instrument beyond its traditional role in country music, died ...

BYU's pep band has been missing from basketball games. More than 5,000 people have signed an online petition to bring back ...

The Brooklyn-based musician-composer’s Kalima is a blend between guitar and sarod. He will launch his new album Liquid ...

It’s a wooden instrument, and you have to get up really ... Charlie Gabriel of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Cindy Blackmon Santana and Gregory Porter. “I would say I had three major ...

Jazz in the Park Festival returns to the “Romulus Vuia” Ethnographic Park in Cluj-Napoca for its 13th edition this summer, ...

The African lute, called the ngoni, xalam, or kora depending on the region and culture, has a rich history dating back ...