Silver triangles flashed beneath pastel-toned stage lights at the German Jazz Awards in north-west Germany on June 13. The three-sided trophies got pressed into the clammy hands of winning artists and ...

The idea of a stolid German at a jam session seems at first glance as unlikely as an Irishman at a temperance meeting or a Laplander in the bull ring. Nevertheless. jazz (pronounced yahtz) has come to ...

German jazz fusion drummer and music director Paul Albrecht has become a phenomenon, seamlessly blending traditional jazz finesse with the contemporary cadence of hip-hop. But his story is more than ...

Coco Schumann, a German jazz guitarist who performed alongside Ella Fitzgerald and Marlene Dietrich during a decades-long musical career, but who gave his most consequential performances as an inmate ...

ISLAMABAD: Jazz is no stranger to Pakistan, with ensembles travelling to the country for over 50 years. But all of the ensembles from different countries who have come through, have connected with the ...

Our thanks to JazzRadio CEO Julian Allitt in Germany for sending in this international advertiser success story. JazzRadio Berlin has a bi-weekly cume of 528,000 listeners and, because the station is ...

What is our music worth? The 2021 pandemic year called for a strategic mix of productive collaboration, political solidarity, solid networking and innovative individual approaches to jazz. Live events ...

Heinz Jakob “Coco” Schumann, a Jewish-German jazz legend who survived the Holocaust by playing for Nazis, is dead at 93, the BBC reported. Schumann, born to Jewish parents, fell in love with jazz ...

The German jazz guitarist Coco Schumann (born Heinz Jakob Schumann) died January 29 at the age of 93. He remained active musically until near the end of his life and therefore ranks as a jazz musician ...

In the 1920s and 30s, jazz was taking off in the United States and much of Europe, including Germany. Classical composers even began to meld jazz styles into their music. (SOUNDBITE OF WOLFGANG ...

It's a little known chapter in the career of Canadian music legend Oscar Peterson — he played a series of private concerts and recorded some of his best work for a small German jazz label in the 1960s ...

Germany's best-known jazz performer has died of a stroke. His career spanned almost 15 years, making him one of Germany's most beloved musical celebrities. Cicero was born into a musical family, with ...