We thought it would be a fun exercise to conduct various searches on jazz and compile the results. What are the defining characteristics of jazz? After all the searching, only a handful of elements ...

JAZZ scripture insists that composition is a frill, at best a springboard to improvisation and at worst an obstruction to it. But jazz scripture also insists on progress, and in the past few years ...

Please contact the music department for more information. EMUS 1437/3437/5437 (1)–Jazz Combo Please contact the music department for more information. EMUS 3642 (3)–History of Jazz Studies the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Terence Blanchard and Anthony Davis, recent pioneers at the Metropolitan Opera, returned to earlier works in a pair of performances ...

EAGLE – It’s not often that a person can find a single band that plays a mixture of music ranging from the bouncing beats of a polka to the freewheeling notes of a jazz song. But that is just what has ...

Yes, Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal was a jazz legend. But his talent for even-handedly incorporating jazz, Brazilian folk music and avant-garde classical music meant ...