Jazz's popularity grows, and as it attracts a wider audience, so do campaigns to censor this "devil's music." Early detractors like Thomas Edison, inventor of the phonograph, ridicule jazz, saying ...

To that roll of honor, add the bands competing in the 30th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & ...

Rochester, N.Y. (WHAM) — The sounds of jazz filled the air of the Flower City as night one of the Rochester International Jazz Festival gets underway on Friday.. From high school bands to ...

Many subgenres of jazz are represented including bebop, big band, classical, Afro-Cuban, hip-hop, voodoo jazz and vocalists. Explore Atlanta Jazz Festival 2024 brings a world of talent to Piedmont ...

She's writing her own songs, drawing inspiration from the jazz canon of the 1940s and 1950s. Samara Joy 60 Minutes Music critics are comparing her to jazz royalty Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald.

Alumnus Matt Smiley (DMA ’22), a jazz studies lecturer at the CU Boulder College of Music, has been awarded a MacDowell Fellowship—one of the most prestigious, cross-disciplinary artist residency ...

Central High's Jazz Band won the 2025 "Essentially Ellington" High School Competition and Festival, which took place between May 7-11, 2025. This year was the 30th anniversary of the event, named ...

Memphis Central High School's jazz band won first place at the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival in New York. The band also won awards for Outstanding Trumpet ...