People of all ages flooded the entrances to The Soraya’s “Jazz at Naz Festival” for Composer and Pianist Jason Moran’s collaboration with CSUN’s Jazz A Band, celebrating Duke Ellington, composer and ...

The eight-piece Lynnwood band Cytrus have a hybrid sound that's as infectious as it is hard to define. Their music is ...

The buzz that jazz band is fun gets around, so much so that students who do not play typical jazz band instruments — saxophones, trumpets, trombones and a rhythm section with drums, jazz piano, guitar ...

Big bands were built in the 1920s and ’30s to blast young dancers with layers of rhythm, but creative composers seeking a larger canvas have kept the form alive. Hear 12 big selections. By Giovanni ...

For much of his career, Steve Smith has been a musical journeyman. In some cases, that was very literal – in three different decades, Smith served as the drummer for the iconic rock band Journey. But ...

Record labels didn’t know what to do with Hiroshima. The band, led by Japanese American Boyle Heights native Dan Kuramoto, defied simple categorization. It featured Japanese instruments like taiko ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A new musical instrument drive aims to provide local kids with the gift of music while encouraging early spring cleaning. Philip Arnold, music director of the Youth Jazz ...

Steve Alcala, a music teacher and trumpet player, fell in love with Latin Jazz, but very little sheet music was available to help his students learn. So he started a sheet music publishing company.