Woody Allen's jazz persona is every bit as neurotic as his signature movie roles. "If I suddenly get a stroke in the middle of the tune, you'll know I wanted to thank you," Allen said before his last ...

That U.S.-hip-sounding line, strangely enough, is as British as “jolly good,” or “raw-ther.” It describes a musical fad that has washed over Britain. “Trad” is traditional jazz, the 1920s variety now ...

Stage lights glisten off the shiny bells of the cornet and trombone as the band strikes up a strutting tune. The dance floor begins to fill with ladies in fringed dresses, many carrying fancy ...

A live traditional jazz set including such trad jazz standards “Black Bottom” and “That’s A Plenty”, the bluesy “St. James Infirmary” and “Tin Roof Blues”, and the moody ballad “Do You Know What It ...

The musicians seated closest to him nodded their acquiescence, but a few others were too busy chatting between numbers to have heard, and had to be shushed by their fellows. As Mazzy began quietly ...

Around dusk on April 2, as he plans to do every evening as long the coronavirus shutdown continues, New Orleans jazz clarinetist Tim Laughlin stepped out onto his Royal Street balcony and played his ...

Clarinetist/composer Luca Luciano is a champion of contemporary music and his compositions, part of his academic research, have been premiered at the Bristol Cathedral and the prestigious St Martin in ...

Transformations and Further Passages, a lively new album by Germany's The Clarinet Trio, revives tunes written by German jazz composers in the 1950s and '60s. This is FRESH AIR. In modern jazz and ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. December 6, 2017 -- The hauntingly beautiful "wailing" sounds of early New Orleans jazz clarinets, often featured in brass bands or jazz funerals, are one of the most distinctive ...