One of the first European jazz bandleaders to embrace synthesizers, bass guitars and other electric instruments, trumpeter, composer and author Ian Carr forged a singularly British style of jazz-rock ...

It's been quite a year for The Jazz Session, my online jazz interview show: passing 300,000 downloads (and a few thousand away from 400,000 as I write this); forming a partnership with All About Jazz; ...

What started out as a jazz lesson turned into an impromptu jam session in Esperanza High School’s band room recently. Bradley Davis, the school’s band director, called upon students to join him center ...

Musical improvisation, specifically in jazz music, is a defining element of the genre — musicians building off each other’s sound through extemporized melodies from the roots of African rhythms and ...