Has Trumpet, Will Surprise
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The trumpeter John McNeil is one of the best improvisers working in jazz. But who is he?
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A jazz musician finds inspiration and instruction from an unlikely source: prison.
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Game makers need to spend time to make sure that music adds to the playing experience.
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LOS ANGELES  - There aren't many composers whose music is immediately identifiable after just a couple of whistled notes.
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By Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Sep. 16----
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A previously unknown 1964 recording surfaces to supply us with another dazzling look at one of the greatest jazz bands to ever take a stage.
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By Dan Craft  BLOOMINGTON - So many talented area musicians, so little organized information about them.  And Pat Rosenbaum isn't happy about it.   She's so unhappy, in fact, that she wants to rectify the situation - immediately.
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Prairie View A&M Universityâs band offers a vernacular musical form that is not aiming at commercial success.
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Since Cuban musicians, and drummers in particular, have played such a strong and complicated role in jazzâs history, the Cuban drummer Francisco Melaâs new quintet seems almost unfairly significant from the start.
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When Minnesota played in Green Bay last month, the University of Wisconsin marching band's horn section spelled out a special taunt.
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The ensemble is well tuned, reasonably together and certainly not lacking in enthusiasm. Its size was not right for the space.
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My wife is a professional percussionist. After three years of hearing her play marimba, djembe and conga in our living room -- and hearing me fumble around on our piano -- our neighbors wanted us to keep quiet.
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A composer and koto player reinvents an ancient Japanese stringed instrument by way of an Apple G4 PowerBook and tightly focused beams of light. By Alexander Gelfand.
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Travel restrictions aimed at terrorists are snagging top musicians who carry on their instruments to protect them.
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A number of performers are questioning the traditional expectations of chamber music, causing mixed reactions among the purists and the newcomers.
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Terence Blanchardâs first set at the Jazz Standard on Tuesday started with his unaccompanied trumpet solo, orderly and open-ended.
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An obscure composerâs grand plan to transform a bridge into an orchestra is slowly taking place upstate.