The smooth, sax-laden sounds of Michael ... and other indelible musicians of the time, along with rock journalists and scholars, define the music as taking its cues from jazz, funk, and R&B, laying ...

Lou Donaldson, the celebrated American saxophonist who helped shape jazz, passed away at 98 on November 9. A leading figure ...

The keyboard, everything, came to me,” she said, “including knowing that I wanted ‘Fanga’ to go with that.” It was the moment of inspiration for the title song of “Soaring High,” Kuumba’s live concert ...

On a crisp autumn Sunday, St. Mary’s Church welcomed an afternoon of musical warmth and upbeat charm as jazz duo Peter Duncan and David ...

The former director of Giwayen Mata, Atlanta's all-women drumming group, is reinventing herself as a bandleader.

The 2023 TD James Moody Jazz Festival took place from November 3 to 19 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) and a ...

“Fire Escape” will premiere in Cambridge at Farm League Brewing Saturday, Nov. 23 at 6:30 p.m. The team plans to showcase the ...

A player of impeccable technique and a mainstay of the Blue Note label, he recorded constantly as both a leader and a sideman ...

Lou Donaldson's career spanned over half a century, and several of his recordings were sampled in some of the most impactful ...

U.S. saxophonist Lou Donaldson, one of jazz music's last remaining links to the era of bebop in the 1950s who went on to ...

“Jazz has to hit a certain spot,” Donaldson explained in his autobiography, according to the New York Times. “There’s a ...