The recording of Livery Stable Blues (above sheet music, 1917), by some estimates, sold more than one million copies. Sam DeVincent Collection, Archives Center, NMAH The band employed a fun and ...

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...

Saturday night at the Potter Center in Jackson, the JSO continues their season-long celebration of the birth of Leonard Bernstein's 100 years ago. WKAR's Jamie Paisley speaks with JSO's conductor, Dr.

2 Listen to the 2026 Grammy Nominees for Best Musical Theater Album The CD features 18 rare cuts from a host of legendary players like Junior Mance, Nat Adderley, Gene Bertoncini, Lillette Jenkins, ...

A new recording features pianist McCoy Tyner and saxophonist Joe Henderson in a concert taped in New York City in 1966. The music here is a prelude to later iconic records by each leader. Sponsor ...

Jazz is a sponge for outside sounds. Add another idea to it — say, European classical or gospel-inflected R&B music — and it absorbs, assimilating the sound into a new subgenre: like "third stream" or ...

This week, I wanted to share some more new releases with you, and it just so happens that all the music is jazz. We begin with Trombone Shorty (Troy Andrews) who is just as hot on trumpet as he is on ...

The 20th Scranton Jazz Festival opens with Jazz Walks on Friday, Aug. 1, and Saturday, Aug. 2. Dozens of acts will perform at bars, restaurants and other public spaces. The music is free, with food ...

For He Guofeng, a 50-year-old musician born and raised in Yulin, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, he was somewhat hurt by a netizen's comment labeling him a "layman of Shaanbei music", because he ...