Artists like Kendrick Lamar and Bad Bunny are part of a long line of musicians who talk back to power. Free Jazz first came onto the scene in the late 1950s and early 60s during a period of the United ...

Michel Portal, a French pioneer of European modern jazz and a prolific writer of film music, has died aged 90, his agent said ...

The Big Bands of UC Davis, also directed by Lee, hit the Pitzer Center stage on Tuesday, March 3, at 5 p.m. to perform ...

Two recent releases from the free jazz universe of music celebrate two of the greatest saxophone icons of the 20th century, Archie Shepp and Pharoah Sanders. I was first exposed to free jazz at a ...

Charlie "Bird" Parker (1920-1955) may have left this earth at the young age of 34, but his contribution to music history was much more than a grace note. Every time a horn player attempts to play it ...

There is a story Detroit Jazz Festival President and Artistic Director Chris Collins loves to tell about an intimate conversation he had with Gretchen Valade. Valade had rescued the festival from the ...