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 ...

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From his first days in Marshall, Missouri, the music of Bob James has captivated audiences throughout ... During this time, James set the standard for the smooth jazz sound in the late 1970s. A ...

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

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

Over the years, the recording industry has managed to create Christmas music for every mood. Thousands of sad piano takes on ...

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

A Mountaintop Discovery is Changing Everything We Knew About the Silk Road Bruce Springsteen Opens Toronto Show With a Rallying Cry ‘for My Country,' Then Lets the Music Do the Talking ...

Jazz at Concordia is an intimate program where students and faculty work together in a nurturing ... Students can take a class from electroacoustic, or any other area of the music department. The ...

The Jazz Age glorified city life. Americans — including many African American sharecroppers from the South — were leaving their farms in record numbers to live and work in places like Chicago ...

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 ...