With 20 years' experience as a jazz educator, guitarist Dan Phillips in a position of some authority to be giving advice to guitarists learning their craft. Two decades and many musical adventures ...

UNTIL THE beginners jazz class at eXit SPACE School of Dance in Green Lake, I didn’t know jazz stars were missing from my life. Before attending my first dance class, teacher Karen O’Branovich assured ...

Life is nothing but a party. Well, actually with today's wars, hurricanes and floods, gas prices, and the decline of the middle class--not to mention the growing influence Dick Cheney has on snack ...

Students entering the jazz-studies program at the University of North Texas bring with them more experience every year, according to Dan Haerle, a professor of music at the university. In recent years ...

Considering Genius collects jazz writing spanning 27 years from the famed polemicist of jazz’s neo-conservative movement, Stanley Crouch. The 30 pieces collected here constitute not so much a book ...

Musicians call it "spang-a-lang," for obvious phonetic reasons, and it's so synonymous with jazz, it no longer occurs to us that someone had to invent it. But someone did: a drummer named Kenny Clarke ...

Grab your beret – things are about to get swingin' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. With today’s multisampled drum kits capable of ...