Kelby MacNayr's Blue Note Repertory All-Stars featuring Cuban trumpet sensation Miguelito Valdes, saxophonist Roy Stffe, ...

Berkshires Jazz Inc. has launched a multi-school program to help young musicians develop jazz improvisation, ensemble and teamwork skills.

The 1950s brought a warmth to American living rooms that no television screen could match. Families gathered around their ...

Different Strokes joined forces with Asheville Community Theatre earlier this year to present The Narrative, a series of staged readings spotlighting Black playwrights. Currently, Hickling Beckman ...

The 1950s and early '60s were a high point for jazz. Jazz was popular. You could hear it on TV, on college campuses, and on US State Department tours. It was an era of mind-boggling creativity. Cool ...

An art-making activity at the San Diego Made Market is shown in an undated photo. Two artists explore and reimagine public gardens and community green spaces in San Diego — then and now — in a new ...

In postwar America, an epidemic of heroin addiction swept the world of jazz. Greats who developed a habit included John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Miles Davis, and Charlie Parker. Nowadays, jazz has an ...

It takes a special type of theatrical talent, one loaded with heart and wit and insight, to imbue something that looks like an Apple MagSafe iPhone Charger with more romantic appeal than a decade’s ...

Follow the amazing journey of the jazz loving English teenager with a gifted musical ear. Marian McPartland is the host of Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz, the popular Peabody Award winning NPR series ...

Some books, plays or movies seem more naturally suited to being turned into musicals than others. Who ever thought a musical about a vengeful barber (“Sweeney Todd”) would become such an enduring hit?

Joe Belson, left, and Darian Gray perform jazz in Walking Cinema’s “The Fillmore Eclipse” at Honey Art Studio in San Francisco on Friday, April 26. Photo: Camille Cohen/Special to the Chronicle The ...