LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's capital is normally associated with the melancholic fado music, but a new Portuguese jazz label is making a name for itself around the world with an adventurous approach ...

Within the annals of endless discussions about jazz, there has never been a lack of debate or self-questioning over the very nature of this Great American Music. On the list of possibly unanswerable ...

A circular field of empty seats, as if a swather had taken a lap in the center of Centennial Hall, dominated the view of Friday night’s Blue Note 7 concert. For an event honoring the 70th anniversary ...

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STAMFORD -- Scott Wenzel has been listening to jazz since he was 3 years old. A black and white photo in his office shows the young Wenzel sitting on the floor in front of a turntable, looking up at ...

On an uncharacteristically rainy day in March, Orange County native Yousef Hilmy, founder and creative director of Minaret Records, stood outside the glass door of a nondescript venue in Mid-City. He ...

A small group of very vocal musicians has decided that the new target of their anger, after attacking cyberlockers, search engines and torrent sites, should be legal, authorized streaming services.

Creedence Clearwater Revival—a band rooted in swamp rock, rhythm and blues, and Southern gothic Americana—became the unlikely financial engine behind one of the most ambitious jazz preservation ...

In the late 1960s, the recording industry lost interest in America’s greatest art form. But in a small, dark club on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, jazz legends were playing the best music you’ve ...