Unlike Americans, who largely view jazz as a relic, the French host countless festivals and are willing to shell out for tickets. The music is more popular here than in its homeland. Listening to ...

Colfax Ave., Suite 135. With Meghan Stagl on piano and Evan Levine on bass, the concert features an “all-in-French” jazz repertoire, including translated American jazz standards and ...

28, concert-goers of all ages wearing MF DOOM memorabilia quickly filled the Brooklyn venue — only to eagerly change their outfits for merch with the name of a French jazz album from the Seventies.

Martial Solal, a French Algerian jazz pianist who honed his fleet-fingered style alongside American musicians in postwar Paris and became a master of mood-rich improvisations that included the ...

Even if you don’t know psychedelic French jazz-funk legends Cortex by name, you have probably know have probably heard elements of their 1975 album Troupeau Bleu. Tracks from it have been ...

He began his role with CBS Bay Area in 2015. Heavily sampled '70s French jazz-funk group Cortex plays their first Bay Area concert ever when they headline a sold-out show at the UC Theatre in ...

So this week on Afterglow, I thought I’d get in the spirit by exploring the French side of the American Songbook. Jazz had a foothold in Gay Paris as early as World War I, so there’s a lot of ...

He is the peerless master of French jazz, and everywhere in Europe he is greeted like a visiting professor. But when he arrived in Manhattan for his American debut, his boat docked in a puddle of ...

The writing credits for the French director Bertrand Tavernier’s 1986 jazz drama, “ ’Round Midnight,” about a saxophonist who moves from New York to Paris in 1959, go to Tavernier and to ...

28, concert-goers of all ages wearing MF DOOM memorabilia quickly filled the Brooklyn venue — only to eagerly change their outfits for merch with the name of a French jazz album from the Seventies.