MENTOR, Ohio -- Mentor musician E.J. Parker only planned to spend a few months in China when he first traveled there in 2003 to play in a jazz band. He was still in China 12 years later with a wife ...

The JZ club in Shanghai is one of the hottest jazz clubs in China. It features live jazz every night of the week with a different group each night. from latin to straight-ahead to funk to original ...

BEIJING, 7 May (BelTA - Xinhua) - At a Chinese international jazz festival that wrapped up on Monday, musicians from across the world delivered a dazzling fusion of jazz and cross-cultural ...

Even though maintaining a jazz orchestra these days is about as profitable as running Amtrak, the surplus of great musicians in Los Angeles assures that there will always be local big bands. Away from ...

It is something of a paradox that the western world knows so relatively little about modern China, even as the awakening giant's influence in the world is increasing. With something like 10 million ...

BEIJING (Reuters Life!) - Once banned as a decadent Western music propagated by reactionary class enemies, China has embraced jazz to the point of organizing a festival on the doorstep of the ...

Jazz put down roots in Shanghai as early as the 1920s, the city’s cosmopolitan character and booming nightlife an ideal setting for a new American music that was starting to sweep the world. Though ...