In September, the community in Menan had their first taste of what is now a monthly tradition at the city’s historic Town ...

Four Cats in the Doghouse is the house band in Aiken's living room. The jazz quartet has played a weekly gig at The Willcox for 16 years, setting up next to a fireplace in a corner of the dark-paneled ...

Jazz versions of holiday classics can bring up these feelings even with no singer, though perhaps start with Ella Fitzgerald’s classic album “Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas.” Other sweet as ...

NPR Music's Felix Contreras presents some of the stand out performances of beloved holiday tradition, celebrating its 25th anniversary.

A new piano bar and jazz club is joining Fondren’s entertainment scene this week.Louise’s, a cocktail-forward lounge inspired by the golden age of jazz and classic Hollywood style, will open to the ...

Hollywood producer Tom Rice has returned to his hometown of Jackson, Mississippi, to open a new business. Rice is opening Louise's Piano Bar, an art-deco styled club in the Fondren District. The venue ...

Jack DeJohnette, the genre-bending jazz drummer whose beats helped shape Miles Davis’ groundbreaking sound and whose rhythmic genius elevated generations of musicians from Keith Jarrett to Herbie ...

For a lot of years, Vera Brandes couldn’t listen. Not once had she heard the bestselling solo jazz album of all time—Keith Jarrett’s passionate and sublime The Köln Concert—though she’d been essential ...

Matthew Shipp was born December 7, 1960 in Wilmington, Delaware. He started piano at 5 years old with the regular piano lessons most kids have experienced. He fell in love with jazz at 12 years old.

During a career that crossed the Atlantic, the contralto was considered Britain’s finest contribution to the quintessential American genre. By The Associated Press Cleo Laine, whose husky contralto ...

Robi Botos is a Juno-winning Canadian jazz pianist who was hugely influenced by the late Oscar Peterson — one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time. He opened for Peterson in Switzerland and he ...

Jazz musicians are the innovative artists who create and perform jazz, a uniquely music style born in New Orleans in the early 1900s. These musicians blend improvisation, rhythm, and personal ...