The year-old Brucker-Weisse-Canterbury Jazz Orchestra boasts a deep pedigree through charts bequeathed from an earlier jazz giant who led a celebrated 1960s big band here. The BWC plays Thursday, July ...

When rock ’n’ roll arrived, a lot of the older jazz musicians — and even more so, jazz fans — professed to detest it. Yet at least as late as the end of the 1960s, jazz and rock had more in common ...

From its inception in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Jazz was considered the only true American art form. Its sound is a melting pot of musical influences, incorporating remnants of ragtime, ...

Even though its renowned leader and trombonist passed away in 2005, and the Dave Robbins Big Band's Happy Faces was recorded some forty years before that, the music on this remarkable album remains as ...

Through the dim and smoky atmosphere of the Manhattan jazz den called Birdland came some old and familiar piano tones. The holiday crowd quieted and the music took over, its tones pure and glassy, its ...