Now here's something you don't see or hear every day: 25 local jazz ensembles of all kinds will converge Saturday, Oct. 7 along a 1 1/2 mile walking loop on the Charles River. That's already pretty ...

Jazz bandleader and composer Josiah Reibstein will get the honor of playing with his trio, The After Times, on one of the largest regional jazz stages — “Jazz Along the Charles” in Boston on Saturday, ...

Backing tracks are a valuable practice tool for musicians of all levels. Let’s face it, we don’t all live in a major city where we can play with top players every night and sometimes we need some ...

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. Some of what we now call jazz standards originated on Broadway, while others were initially ...