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Read our interview about the saxophonist's new album 'Birdly Serenade.' Plus: the best jazz releases of the month.

Extracting inimitable, stinging tone from his Tele with just his fingers, Albert Collins carved a hugely influential sonic ...

2009-2014), Jazz Korea Festival (Germany 2012 and 2013), DC Jazz Fest (US, 2018), and GREC Music Festival (Spain, 2018) just to name a few. She was chosen as one of the five rising stars by prestige ...

Muti began a concert in Carnegie Hall with Contemplazione, whose subtitle is preludio per orchestra. Universal Edition (the ...

You might not have wanted to bet on Billy Joel in the summer of 1977. For a guy whose career had started out promisingly, he'd undergone more setbacks than a wild-armed pitcher. In his teen years he ...

It was originally called ‘Guachi Guara’ but we knew that name wouldn’t make it, so we just ... sax man Jimmy Heath and trumpeter Donald Byrd. Two days later, Heath, Byrd, ... THIS IS THE FIRST ...

Reckon jazz is just for connoisseurs ... topped the US Billboard 100. In 1958, Minnesota chanteuse Peggy Lee took R&B singer’s Little Willie John’s R&B chart-topper from two years earlier ...

When saxophonist Harry Allen, one of the finest mainstream jazz players around and a multiple award winner on a global scale, ...

Her early years blended playing music ... two parts, focusing on classical repertoire for the first half, and playing her soprano saxophone. After intermission, she alternated soprano and alto ...

The Last of Us co-creator Craig Mazin reveals the big link between the song at the end of Season 2 Episode 2 and the game.

That takes us to the fun/scary moment in the episode where ... on its viewers a bit as well because there are reportedly two different versions of the episode available on Netflix, and which ...