While attending the Inaugural Blue Note Jazz Festival, we spoke to standout artists on the bill and their relationship with music. [{"index": 0, "postId": 2659555662 ...

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.

After his father, Danny Bensusan founded the first Blue Note club in 1981, Blue Note President Steven Bensusan grew up in the world of jazz legends, from Chick Corea to McCoyTyner. So even as the ...

Lizzo's last proper tour visited arenas and festivals in 2023, but the artist is hunkering down in much smaller musical ...

[Note: The column’s namesake moniker is taken from a book of the same name: "Notes & Tones: Musician-To-Musician Interviews," written by Art Taylor, the great drummer. In the name of transparency, the ...

American jazz composer and guitarist John Scofield performs with his Combo 66 band with Gerald Clayton on piano and Hammond B3 organ and Vicente Archer on upright acoustic bass at the Blue Note Jazz ...

The Blue Note Jazz Festival returns to Wine Country for its second year July 28-30 at Silverado Resort in Napa. But don't let the name fool you into thinking this is a single-genre festival. With ...

For a number of reasons, a recent announcement from the Jazz Journalists Association [JJA] stood out as different enough to catch my attention immediately. I’m a member of the lone jazz media-centered ...

"Mad Scientist Music"—the tag that Harry Schnipper, owner of venerated D.C. jazz venue Blues Alley, admiringly applied to Ben Patterson's creations—is an apt description for this trombonist's work.

Direct, precise and no filler — that’s a good way to describe Ron Carter, the tall, eloquent elder statesman of jazz. For many musicologists, he’s considered one of the great virtuosos – if not the ...

Assessing the best jazz albums of any current year could be a tricky affair. The tricky part lies in the term current, as during any given year there is a slew of reissued jazz albums that can ...