How did acclaimed drummer Cindy Blackman Santana react when her husband and musical partner, guitar legend Carlos Santana, first suggested she make an album featuring her singing? “I was like: ‘That’s ...

There’s something inherently beautiful about Paul Motian’s drumming, which was unmistakable early on his career, especially on the late ’50s and early ’60s recordings he did with the Bill Evans Trio.

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This is what they say in Japanese music: if the next hit won't change the music, then don't hit it. It is like the opposite of jazz in a way, where there's too much information all the time. With so ...

Roy Haynes. American jazz drummer and bandleader has died. Born in 1925 in Roxbury, Mass., he influenced generations of jazz drummers and helped change the direction of rhythmic improvisation. Roy ...

It's a Wednesday night in the venerable Bayou Bar of the Pontchartrain Hotel in New Orleans – one of the best (and least publicized) jazz gigs in the city known as the cradle of jazz. Herlin Riley is ...

Los Angeles brims with beautiful musical traditions, including those venerable daylong festivals that put the emphasis on a particular place, and/or instrument, and/or style, and/or feel and vibe. A ...

“I hope you’re enjoying this music because it can be heavy,” says Terri Lyne Carrington to the crowd at her recent Tiny Desk Concert. There’s an old-school quality to that line, like it could have ...

What: Jammin’ Jazz Kids Drum Circle. When: 11 to 11:45 a.m., Sunday; Registration at 10:45 a.m. Where: Jazz Tent at Solaris at the Vail Farmers’ Market and Art ...