In 2020, I published A Map of Jazz: Crossroads of Music and Human Rights (WS Publishing), a book that looks at the culture of jazz on a timeline with cultures of the world. At more than 500 pages, the ...

The hottest tunes of a century ago will heat up again as the Springfield Symphony Jazz Orchestra (SSJO) opens its new season ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. How did an Iowa boy named in part after Germany’s “Iron Chancellor” become one of jazz’s most influential ...

Nora Holt was a pioneer of Chicago’s Black classical music scene. A friend of Josephine Baker, she later became a blues singer in Parisian nightclubs. A 1934 portrait of Nora Holt by Carl Van ...

The book traces how swing, bebop, and big band music arrived in Bombay in the early 20th century, shaped the city's nightlife, and eventually found their way into the DNA of Bollywood film scores.

THUMBNAIL SKETCH: In the summer of 1918, F. Scott Fitzgerald, of St. Paul (and Buffalo!), who had dropped out of Princeton to join the army, arrived as a young lieutenant at a society ball in ...

For a century, the tiny Coolidge Auditorium, at the Library of Congress, has been a wellspring of cultural integrity, innovative music and American ingenuity. (And free concerts.) ...

I have a friend. I will not say his name. But he is to me what Charles Swann was to Marcel, the main character in Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past. My friend, who is a man about town, will often, ...

NEW YORK – Nero's ancient Rome and Jazz Age New York were similar. That is the message of “The Comet/Poppea,” an intriguing combination of Monteverdi’s 1643 opera “L’incoronazione di Poppea” and ...

Considered by many as one of the great drummers in modern jazz history, Jack DeJohnette has died at the age of 83.

Jazz bassist, composer and educator Ray Drummond died on November 1, 2025 at the age of 78. Drummond can be heard on hundreds of albums as both a leader and a sideman for numerous artists including ...