Remember when you were a kid? You’d hear a certain song on the radio, and there was something magical about it that made you want to buy it and play it over and over again. You weren’t sure whether it ...

Follow the amazing journey of the jazz loving English teenager with a gifted musical ear. Marian McPartland is the host of Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz, the popular Peabody Award winning NPR series ...

The early development of radio was distinctly not American. Sharing a common purpose with the early drums of Africa and Asia, its purpose was strategic and tactical communication and signaling, and ...

Jazz musicians have long mined Broadway, the Great American Songbook, and even pop music for material. Here are five Latin interpretations of songs written by jazz musicians, a process that isn't as ...

Another Porgy and Bess song that Billie Holiday helped bring to the public's attention, "I Loves You, Porgy," functioned in the opera as a duet between the two title ...

Over the past four decades, Joe Gilman has distinguished himself as a world-class pianist, revered music educator and tireless purveyor of jazz history. Currently, a professor at American River ...