The unparalleled art form of jazz is best defined by the musical legacies of its master artists. But a small handful of individuals have made their own meaningful contributions by capturing its ...

Here are my 10 top albums that made the last 12 months even more worthwhile, and they’ve held up to repeated listening, too: ...

"We were always looking for our own sound," alto saxophonist Gary Bartz recently affirmed. "We did not want to sound like anybody else." Speaking with The Late Set, a WRTI podcast, Bartz was referring ...

Across his acclaimed career, Big Chief Donald Harrison Jr. has composed in numerous styles of music. He’s combined genres and broken them apart. He’s invented them, too. But in his newest pieces, ...

Baseball has Cooperstown. Hollywood has stars on the Walk of Fame. And jazz has the NEA Jazz Masters. For over 40 years, the National Endowment for the Arts has bestowed the honor to a select few ...

Rhonda Hamilton, Carmen Lundy and Airto Moreira will also be also honored at the Kennedy Center in April.

The Irving S. Gilmore School of Music’s JAZZ MASTERS SERIES presents master bassist and composer DAVE HOLLAND on Thursday, November 30 at 7:30 pm in the Dalton Center Recital Hall. Dave Holland has ...

There is nothing quite like an interview for immediacy and intimacy. While some people are willing to talk endlessly about themselves, you sometimes find they have nothing to say. Then there are those ...

A celebration to honor this year's NEA Jazz Masters award recipients, including Marshall Allen, Chucho Valdés, Marilyn Crispell and Gary Giddins.... The NEA Jazz Masters fellowship began in 1982, ...