Savannah Musical Festival Executive Director Gene Dobbs Bradford learned a valuable and lasting lesson by sitting in on ...

The festival provides a platform for discovering new artists ... “Watermelon Man,” a jazz standard he wrote all the way back in 1962. Here was the Herbie Hancock, still trying to figure ...

The Abracadabra singer picked up the innovator award and also won the best collaboration gong, along with US music star Bruno Mars, for their hit single Die With A Smile, which features on her new ...

Award-winning musician Wynton Marsalis tells Katty Kay how growing up surrounded by music shaped his own journey with jazz.

"I don't think I could describe (Big Ears Festival) further, the exhilaration," Mike Yaeger said. "It's like a muse, or maybe Ashley (Capps) is my muse." ...

Nnenna Freelon is one of those jazz singers I can listen to and never tire of feeling the warmth insulated in her every note ...

He has performed with Roy Haynes, Herbie Hancock ... Jason Palmer was commissioned by the Festival of New Trumpet Music in NYC to premier a new work (based on a Sudoku game) for his quintet at the ...

Ernest Khabeer Dawkins leading the New Horizons ... this version of the jazz standard “Maiden Voyage,” written by another genre-bending Chicago native: Herbie Hancock. The pianist Myra Melford ...

In 1950 Bley left for New York City. He studied at the Julliard School of ... They recorded for Verve and CBS. In 1963 Bley and Herbie Hancock were invited to play with the bands of Miles Davis and ...