It's been quite a year for The Jazz Session, my online jazz interview show: passing 300,000 downloads (and a few thousand away from 400,000 as I write this); forming a partnership with All About Jazz; ...

Musical improvisation, specifically in jazz music, is a defining element of the genre — musicians building off each other’s sound through extemporized melodies from the roots of African rhythms and ...

In order to perform and ‘conceal’ jazz, musicians translated the names of the Jazz Standards into the local language and added elements of local folk music into their performances. Note: Originally ...

While walking along Chicago Avenue on the first Thursday of the month, you just might hear a crooning saxophone solo wafting out of the restaurant Prairie Moon. Last week, the music came from chemical ...

NOKOMIS, Fla. (BLOOM) — At 85 years old, David Hirsch isn’t slowing down, he’s just getting back into rhythm. Every month at The Goldton at Venice, a senior living community in Nokomis, Hirsch sets up ...

Aretha’s Jazz Café is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Sunday educational jazz jam sessions. The weekly sessions, led by Scott Gwinnell, provide a mentored learning environment for musicians of ...