On November 15 th and 16 th, 2024, the gorgeous, art-filled Jazz Forum nightclub in Tarrytown, NY, hosted David Amram’s 94 th ...

Throughout the 2023–2024 season, the 13th presented under Artistic Director for Jazz, Jason Moran, the Kennedy Center commemorates Duke Ellington’s 125th birthday with institution-wide celebrations of ...

The Miles Davis Estate and the Jazz Foundation Of America will present “A Miles Davis Birthday Celebration,” on SiriusXM’s ‘Real Jazz’ (67) this Friday, May 22 at 7 p.m. CST. The three-hour music ...

Wynton Marsalis was born on October 18, 1961, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Musical roots run deep in his family; his father is jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis, and three of Wynton’s six brothers, Branford, ...

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Jazz bassist Ron Carter reflects on his career ahead of his 88th birthday celebration. Grammy Award-winning jazz bassist Ron Carter, a metro Detroit native, is celebrating his 88th birthday with six ...

The November 7 and 8 shows feature guests from across his distinguished career, including Trey Anastasio of Phish (November 7 only) and vocalist Cassandra Wilson (November 8 only), Hassan Hakmoun, ...

Pat Metheny performs during the Jazz Foundation of America. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/ Courtesy of Getty Images for Jazz Foundation Of America) Two hours of musical mastery from one of jazz’s most ...

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Broadway's Vernel Bagneris reads excerpts from Hentoff and Shapiro's Hear Me Talkin' To Ya and joins Jim Cullum and the Band on Louis Armstrong classics like “I Can't Give ...

This year marks 125 years since the birth of jazz legend Duke Ellington. The bandleader, composer and pianist died 50 years ago. In the new book “The Jazzmen,” biographer Larry Tye sets out to ...