Though many have tried to argue the opposite to Nathan Tokunaga, the clarinet is a key instrument played in classic jazz ...

Explore the best Christmas jazz albums from Vince Guaraldi's A Charlie Brown Christmas to 2025 releases by Herb Alpert, Darius de Haas, and more.

As a long and eventful 2025 draws to a close, NME remembers the influential and beloved musicians who left us this year ...

Thelonious Monk’s ‘Genius Of Modern Music, Vol. 2' is getting re-released as part of Blue Note Records’ Classic Vinyl series.

I’m Mark Rapp, and this is Rapp on Jazz. After World War II, jazz entered a bold new chapter. The big band era had largely faded, and in its place, small combos and jam sessions took center stage.

Two-time Grammy Award-winning musician Chuck Mangione, who achieved international success in 1977 with his jazz-flavored single "Feels So Good" and later became a voice actor on the animated TV comedy ...

He also was a voice actor on 'King of the Hill,' playing a commercial spokesman for Mega Lo Mart, where “shopping feels so good.” By The Associated Press Two-time Grammy Award-winning musician Chuck ...

Pianist Sir John Thompson could play anything. And he did, from swing and jump blues to bebop and pop, on recording session after recording session. Lester Young dubbed him “Sir" in the early 1940s ...

As the lights dimmed in Bonn Studio Theater on Thursday night, the rhythmic pulse of jazz music filled the room to signal the start of Boston College bOp!’s Coffee House performance. Like a late-night ...

PRESQUE ISLE, Maine – Two Aroostook County jazz artists, who found each other quite by chance, immediately knew they wanted to do something to bring the music style into northern Maine when they met.

Raue Center for the Arts in downtown Crystal Lake will host a free ticketed concert performed by the Jazz Ambassadors of the United States Army Field Band at 7 p.m. April 16. (Photo provided by Raue ...