The word “incomparable” gets thrown around a lot when it comes to artists. But in the case of Vanessa Collier, it’s pretty ...

PITTSFIELD — Cacophony ruled in the library of Pittsfield High School on Tuesday evening. Six drummers, rotating on three drum sets trading fours, while an equal number of keyboardists practiced ...

Two recent releases from the free jazz universe of music celebrate two of the greatest saxophone icons of the 20th century, Archie Shepp and Pharoah Sanders. I was first exposed to free jazz at a ...

The Rev. Bill Carter remembers the story his mother told him about attending a Louis Armstrong concert in Venango County as a teenager in the early 1950s. It was an all-white audience gathered to hear ...

Branford Marsalis is best known as a jazz musician, but about 10 years ago the saxophonist began focusing more on classical music, which he says has made him a better musician, and that’s what he’ll ...

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Take your jazz arranging to the next level with this solo piano walkthrough of Have You Met Miss Jones. We focus on building beautiful inner voice motion, using chromaticism and subtle ...

When Philip Attard, Joseph Vella, Godfrey Mifsud and Samuel Mallia came together to form a saxophone quartet two years ago, it was for a rather unusual concert. “It sounds a bit comical, but it was a ...

The Utah Jazz had a chance to evaluate themselves and their young core against the top two teams in the Eastern Conference this past weekend—facing the Boston Celtics on Friday and the Cleveland ...

This is my very simple method for how to start playing solo jazz piano. After watching this video, players should be able to take care of the melody, the comping and the bass line, all by themselves.