THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR SONGS RANKED BY SELF-REPORTED PLAYLISTS AND SMOOTH JAZZ RADIO AIRPLAY DETECTIONS, AS MEASURED BY AND PROVIDED BY LUMINATE. FOR THE LATTER, STATIONS ARE ELECTRONICALLY ...

No one description of jazz adequately outlines this ... for probably a hundred years. Music of rent and house parties, after work dances, religious song, cries of street vendors, work songs ...

Guitarist Bill Frisell, who's at Albany's Egg with trio on Saturday, finds home in jazz, but wanders full music spectrum.

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His initial work was as part of The Jazz Brothers ... will always dismiss easy listening music as "mediocre," Mangione’s ...

The subgenre, Yacht Rock, is a relatively new term given to easy-listening older tunes of the 70s, 80s and 90s. HBO has now ...

He was a member of the original American Jazz ... body of work remains within the group context in Ornette Coleman's Quartet and Don Cherry's units. Born in New Orleans, his drum concept fitted ...

Its rendition of battle theme Last Surprise, featuring Jonah Nilsson and Button Masher, has been nominated for a freakin' ...

As did the requisite remixes and edits, cultivating a micro-climate of creative output around “Soft Spot” with vocals spliced ...

Suraya Mohamed is the Executive Producer for NPR Music. In this role ... Chairman's Award for Distinguished Service for her work on the Jazz Profiles documentary series. For many years, she ...

Uman, a jazz piano instructor ... because it's music, it's all about just being intuitive and going with the flow, but there's a lot of work involved." A good ear and a knack for producing lovely ...

Golson's work is identified as hard bop, but he knew a soft side, too. (SOUNDBITE OF ART BLAKEY AND THE JAZZ MESSENGERS' "ALONG CAME BETTY") JOHNSON: Golson's genius for melody made his music cool and ...