It's difficult to encapsulate pianist Matthew Shipp's inimitable musical vision and approach exclusively with words. The elusiveness of his aesthetic stems from its malleability: Shipp retains his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Orleans jazz legend Donald Harrison plays his jazz version of "When the Saints Go Marching In." Jazz is a genre of ...

Victor Mestas was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, and studied at the “J. A. Lamas” School of Music with Carmen Moleiro. He is an endorsement artist for YAMAHA keyboards in Venezuela (2001) and ...

Please contact the music department for more information. EMUS 1437/3437/5437 (1)–Jazz Combo Please contact the music department for more information. EMUS 3642 (3)–History of Jazz Studies the ...

The Sims is one of the most successful video game series ever, having sold nearly 200 million copies over its lifetime. When the original Sims was released back in 2000, it was never guaranteed to be ...

McCoy Tyner, a pianist and composer viewed by musicians and critics alike as the most influential jazz pianist of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, has died. He was 81. Tyner’s death was ...

Jazz musicians are the innovative artists who create and perform jazz, a uniquely music style born in New Orleans in the early 1900s. These musicians blend improvisation, rhythm, and personal ...

This weekend marks Charleston’s first mayoral celebration in decades, and mayor-elect John Tecklenburg and his team mean to make it pretty special. And because Tecklenburg is a music man himself, the ...

Depending on which music pundit you ask, jazz “died” when its 1920s heyday ended. Others believe jazz music lost its luster when the 1960s – and rock music – rolled around. But Ramsey Lewis, an ...

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...