If you love jazz music and always wanted to play in a jazz orchestra, don’t give up your dreams and try out some of the easiest jazz instruments to learn. It is never too late to start learning. But ...

The poster circulating in the community is as cool as the music - three musicians in silhouette playing instruments that signify the unmistakable flair of jazz. The image featuring a saxophonist, bass ...

The buzz that jazz band is fun gets around, so much so that students who do not play typical jazz band instruments — saxophones, trumpets, trombones and a rhythm section with drums, jazz piano, guitar ...

Considering jazz is an art form that mostly makes it up as it goes along, it's ironically appropriate that printed records—i.e., data—from the days of its birth are decidedly sparse. We know, at least ...

Led by Grammy-winning Terell Stafford, the ensemble took a long-awaited trip to Tokyo last spring, wowing the audience at a ...

Big bands were built in the 1920s and ’30s to blast young dancers with layers of rhythm, but creative composers seeking a larger canvas have kept the form alive. Hear 12 big selections. By Giovanni ...

Saxophonist and senior at Interlake High School jazz band Vikram Jagannathan shares his favorite jazz with KNKX listeners.

Record labels didn’t know what to do with Hiroshima. The band, led by Japanese American Boyle Heights native Dan Kuramoto, defied simple categorization. It featured Japanese instruments like taiko ...

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