Jazz festivals across North America regularly feature artists whose music fall outside the genre, but some musicians at this ...

In the words of Bart Simpson, “Cartoons are America’s only native art form.” But in the real world, this distinction is reserved primarily for jazz, a style of music indigenous to America and whose ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Givonna Joseph of Loyola University New Orleans and Gwen Thompkins of WWNO radio about the influence of opera on jazz music.

Tenor saxophonist Paul Shapiro’s hybrid of swing and klezmer celebrates the Jewish influence on jazz as well as Afro-Semitic solidarity in general, specializing in Yiddish songs like “Ot Azoy ...

Support All About Jazz All About Jazz has been a pillar of jazz since 1995, championing it as an art form and, more importantly, supporting the musicians who make it. Our enduring commitment has made ...

On March 20, Thompson Jazz Big Bands will celebrate the impact and influence of Associate Professor of Jazz Studies Paul McKee who retires this year. In this tribute, Professor of Jazz Studies John ...

And that is Jelly Roll Morton, the jazz legend, playing "Miserere" from the opera "Il Trovatore" for Alan Lomax in 1938. Jazz, of course, is born of the African American experience and draws from ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Givonna Joseph of Loyola University New Orleans and Gwen Thompkins of WWNO radio about the influence of opera on jazz music.