Every once in a while, a single instrument arrives and rewrites the rules. Not just for music, but for culture itself. Think about it. A strip of brass and a few keys gave birth to jazz. A solid block ...

"I have a band called Peter Lamb and the Wolves, and I play all the New Orleans music, but I'd never been to New Orleans," he said. "I'm here until Sunday, and I've got tickets to Jazz Fest." For ...

JEFFERSON AS MUSICIAN He was an incurable tinkerer with a keen interest in all the technical innovations for instruments, and corresponded with friends about all the new and “often peculiar things to ...

Considering jazz is an art form that mostly makes it up as it goes along, it's ironically appropriate that printed records—i.e., data—from the days of its birth are decidedly sparse. We know, at least ...

On a recent Wednesday evening, thundering percussions and the sweet whistles of woodwind instruments filled Temple University’s Performing Arts Center. Some of the notes even escaped the thick doors ...

SUMMERVILLE, S.C. — The Jazzscape Junior Foundation is helping Lowcountry teens learn jazz. The group provides free music lessons and instruments to kids around the Lowcountry. “All you have to do ...

Please contact the music department for more information. EMUS 1437/3437/5437 (1)–Jazz Combo Please contact the music department for more information. EMUS 3642 (3)–History of Jazz Studies the ...

Some may think of big band jazz as the sound of a bygone era, but it thrives in the Southern Regional School District. Students and their teachers take the music very seriously, as evidenced by a ...