*Growing up in an artist community, the daughter of loving hippie parents, in Woodstock NY, the allure of music was never far from Lindsey Webster. The adorable, instantly likeable and earthy ...

It’s a windy and chilly Wednesday evening at the elegant Aman Jazz Club in New York City, and Samara Joy, the sensational Grammy Award-winning singer is prepping for a performance. The 23-year-old ...

While music-loving tourists don't necessarily flock to Frenchmen Street to hear modern jazz, if they're lucky and curious enough, they're likely to run into some of these next-generation, hugely ...

This Jazz Appreciation Month, a Philadelphia jazz artist is putting a fresh spin on an old genre — using her lyrics to speak directly to today's women. Singer, composer and arranger Lora Sherrodd is ...

As a trumpeter, Marsalis’ playing is as sharp as it’s ever been. He can command the room with an expertly controlled instability, serenading the audience with frenetic New-Orleans-infused grooves.

Of all the cities Laufey has traveled to after a whirlwind year so far, it's London that will never fail to give the modern jazz singer the butterflies. The Icelandic-Chinese singer and songwriter ...

This weekend Jazz at Lincoln Center will twice present a concert of contemporary jazz masterpieces. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 05: Steven Feifke poses with the award for Best Large Jazz ...

In this episode of Backstage Sonoma, host Steven Roby sits down with the core members of The Smooth Jazz Alley—keyboardist and producer Marco Montoya, drummer and producer Kevin Lewis, and saxophonist ...

A 19-year-old Labor Day tradition for Charleston is just around the corner. For almost two decades, the Lowcountry Jazz Festival has delivered some of the biggest soul-jazz and smooth-jazz performers ...

Contemporary jazz is an umbrella term which describes the diverse array of new music in the jazz idiom produced and recorded in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century. The term ...

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The ninth edition of London’s grass roots jazz festival offered a brilliant and varied range of gigs in the capital’s main jazz quarter. The Soho Jazz Festival, produced by Nathan Britton and George ...