There are plenty of fictional stories about utopian societies where life is good and everybody gets along. Of course, the word utopia literally means "no place," suggesting that an actual utopia is ...

Discover four innovative records from artists including Thundercat and Adrian Younge that stretch the definition of jazz for ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Four celebrated jazz musicians of the 21st century are paying homage to jazz’s most celebrated historic foursome ...

It’s a windy and chilly Wednesday evening at the elegant Aman Jazz Club in New York City, and Samara Joy, the sensational Grammy Award-winning singer is prepping for a performance. The 23-year-old ...

Filmmakers Amitabh Joshi and Erik Spink spotlight Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, the Grammy-nominated, modern jazz musician from New Orleans who defies the expectations of jazz music while challenging ...

For nearly half a century, the Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ) endured as one of the most well-renowned ensembles in jazz. The original MJQ came together in 1946 as the rhythm section in Dizzy Gillespie's ...

Cab Calloway is widely recognized as one of the most influential figures in jazz music during the 1930s and 1940s. His unique style of singing, showmanship, and pioneering musical innovations helped ...

One of the more adventurous and transformative eras in jazz happened amid the societal turbulence of the mid- to late-1960s, and Miles Davis and John Coltrane were leading the way. In his new book ...

Where has Charles Bell been all my life? Or, rather, where have his recordings been? Why did I only find out about them now? How have I only now, fifty-plus years after getting into jazz, stumbled ...

Please contact the music department for more information. EMUS 1437/3437/5437 (1)–Jazz Combo Please contact the music department for more information. EMUS 3642 (3)–History of Jazz Studies the ...