Over my too many years of attending the Chicago Jazz Festival, I’ve been most excited by two types of sets. The fest sometimes gives us a rare (hopefully not last) chance to see a legendary elder of ...

New Orleans’ streets echo with the sounds of brass bands, and iconic venues like Preservation Hall offer an intimate experience with traditional jazz. Also, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival ...

Bonzo Squad is an instrumental ensemble with a focus on creating music that sets the bar higher in terms of eclecticism and musicianship. The group consists of Bonzo himself, born Corbin Andrick, who ...

The sounds of jazz music filled the Great Hall of the Soraya on Friday, Oct. 4 as a large crowd filled the seats to watch two-time GRAMMY-Award winning musician, John Beasley, to conduct CSUN Jazz ...

For the first time ever, the Clarendon Hills Middle School Jazz Band and Hinsdale Middle School Jazz Ensemble will perform together, opening at 6:30 p.m. May 28 for the Pete Ellman Big Band at The ...

A documentary telling Detroit’s jazz legacy premieres at the 2024 Freep Film Festival. A local documentary premiering at the 2024 Freep Film Festival, “The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit,” ...

A Grammy-winning pianist, he was renowned for works that created “new ideas about line, harmony, rhythm, sound and musical architecture,” one admirer wrote. By Richard Sandomir Jim McNeely, a Grammy ...