International Jazz Day

What is the sound of Australian jazz? You'd be hard pressed to answer that question definitively, but one response can be heard on Insurgent, by trumpeter…

International Jazz Day celebrates the idea of music as a universal language.The center of activity this year is Melbourne, Australia, where an All-Star…

Monday, April 30 was International Jazz Day, with events in nearly 200 countries worldwide.The 2018 global host city is St. Petersburg, Russia, where a…

Thelonious Monk, the incomparably influential jazz composer and pianist, would have turned 100 today, and across the country, a healthy range of…

The tune was familiar yet unfamiliar, an iconic object seen through a funhouse prism. It was “El Manisero,” the bedrock Cuban standard, refurbished with…

HAVANA, Cuba — Chucho Valdés and Gonzalo Rubalcaba sat at a pair of grand pianos on Sunday night at the Gran Teatro de la Habana Alicia Alonzo, during the…