The Dizzy Gillespie All-Stars explore the trumpeter’s great repository of musical masterpieces from May 23–25 at the Blue Note jazz club.

And so, in Jazz, we complete our trilogy of American life, finding in the music's lines and phrases and riffs not only a meditation on American creativity, but a joyous and sublime celebration of ...

No Jazz Messengers, no Blue Note. It’s like that. When one thinks of the careers that were born from the Messengers (or Art Blakey’s 1954 Quintet) and who recorded for the label, during or ...

That’s the wonderful thing about jazz music.” But for the Vail Jazz Foundation, an organization-altering change forced the Vail-based nonprofit to shut down the bulk of its operations in late ...

This summer Napa will be at the center of the jazz music universe when the Blue Note Jazz Festival touches down July 28 through 30. The three-day festival will return with Grammy Award-winning ...

in jazz these notes are swung, meaning the downbeats ... But since the 1980s, some scientists and music scholars have claimed that the swing feel is actually created by tiny timing deviations ...