Jazz virtuoso Scott Robinson brings his unique '10 By Sax' performance to Pittsfield’s 10x10 Upstreet Arts Festival.

Exactly 100 years ago this winter, two recordings features Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet marked the triumph of New ...

Evan Christopher began playing clarinet in junior high school in Long Beach, CA. His first introduction to New Orleans music ...

Altoist and multi-instrumentalist Jimmie Lunceford drilled his band throughout the 30s in a gruelling nationwide schedule of ...

Some facts about Black History Month have been well-established: Carter G. Woodson was a member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity.

A North Jersey band will be defending its title, and another North Jersey band will be challenging it, at this year's ...

Aurora Nealand was recently praised as one of the top ten soprano saxophonists in America by Downbeat Magazine. She grew up in an eccentric family on the California coast and then Colorado, listening ...

Buddy Rich, now 67, has been in the enter­tainment business for 65 of those years and for a good chunk of that time his swinging style of big band drumming became the yardstick by which budding tub ...

Sidney Bechet, Coleman Hawkins and Eddie Condon. Gabler is the uncle of actor Billy Crystal, who has lauded his uncle for his contributions to music history. Crystal’s father Jack worked as a ...

Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby offered his perspective on Connor McDavid’s three-game suspension for cross-checking Conor Garland during Saturday’s Edmonton-Vancouver clash.

which is why this charming record has covers from Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet, but also Van Morrison and John Lennon. Relish the version of Sonny & Cher’s “The Beat Goes On,” which ...