The Modern Jazz Quartet was a major jazz institution, a band that, counting a seven-year “vacation,” lasted 43 years. During a time when jazz musicians were stereotyped as unreliable, rarely sober and ...

"I kind of digressed into more jazz and blues and really got into Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone," she told Music Week in 2016. "I'm always inspired by musicians who I felt were musicians before ...

You have people like Cal Tjader, and you have a whole host of other modern jazz musicians that congregated around Brubeck - it was almost a Brubeck school. SMITH: So, was Dave Brubeck the pioneer ...

Through the years, he recorded with Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and many other important artists in the early 1950s. And he pioneered chamber jazz as a member of the Modern Jazz Quartet, starting ...

Saratoga Jazz Festival, presented by GE Vernova will return for a full two-day and two-stage weekend experience on Saturday, ...

Greg Bryant, the former host of WRTI's Evening Jazz, relocated to Los Angeles at the end of last year. He brings us this ...

Kamasi Washington, a master of contemporary jazz music, will take his talents to downtown Miami this winter. The Los ...

A diverse selection of contemporary jazz artists, including Ego Ella May, the Gülseven Medar Quartet and Alina Bzhezhinska, ...