Tommy Steele and Big Mama Thornton are among the most underappreciated classic rock icons in the history of music.

In 1926, a generation of artists was born that reshaped jazz for decades. This episode celebrates eight centennials, ...

Sampling has quietly reshaped music over the past five decades. A snare hit here, a vocal yelp there, maybe a drum loop that ...

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With a focus on the years between 1960 and 1980, Thurston Moore provides Stewart Smith with ten entry points into the wild ...

This one gives new meaning to “Merry Xmas.” Hailing from British Columbia, Jeff “Excision” Abel is one electronic dance music star not afraid to play Minnesota in the frigid months. His run of winter ...

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has officially unveiled its full Jazz Fest 2026 lineup. Slated to take place across two long weekends from April 23–26 and April 30–May 3, the announcement ...

The ensemble will perform a program that includes New Orleans jazz repertoire alongside holiday works arranged in the group’s distinctive Creole sound. Preservation Hall Jazz Band, known for its ...

BRATTLEBORO — On Friday, Dec. 12, at 7:30 p.m., the VJC Big Band will celebrate the legacy of Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and other world-class male vocalists in a swing-dance performance featuring ...

Say the word “jazz,” and many instantly think of legends like Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, or Herbie Hancock. But over the years, jazz has evolved and grown into a much larger phenomenon. “There are a ...

When he was 12, Charles Hamilton saw Louis Armstrong on television—he thinks on The Ed Sullivan Show. That pivotal performance inspired him to tell his mother he wanted to play trumpet. It’s worked ...

We made a full immersion in the sounds of poems, words, structures, poetic forms; we read their stories and transformed them into melodies, into sonorous, liquid emotions, uniting our different ...