Jazz and rock are always borrowing and always inspiring each other. Here are a few rock songs shaped by jazz, where ...

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Jazz was all over the place in 2022. I mean that as a compliment, and with an intended double meaning: We saw some great examples of improvisers flowing through the culture, and we also heard ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Wynton Marsalis is a name that carries weight in both jazz and classical music. A gifted trumpeter, ...

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...

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Sadly, many people associate jazz with elevator or background music, and for that reason feel like it's a boring genre. Well, the truth is, if you immediately associate jazz with elevator music, you ...

Alto saxophonist Jim Snidero had quite a year in 2021, with the re-release of his masterpiece, Strings (Savant), originally released in 2001, and the release of another masterful set, Live At Deer ...

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The past 12 months of music felt like a return to a bygone era, when things didn’t seem quite as diffuse and we had more than one monocultural event to rally around. Charli XCX’s Bratmobile and ...