Rosemary Westwood from member station WWNO asked a few of New Orlean's favorite musicians about the songs they like to listen to around Christmas.

Considering the length of her Christmas list, Eartha Kitt must have been a very good girl in 1953. That’s the year the sultry siren from South Carolina recorded an enduring holiday classic, the one ...

Off Duty is a series of lively conversations with influential people, from CEOs to celebrities, on life, work and the art of taking time off. Thirty years ago, the fashion documentary Unzipped offered ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Club passes for the 2026 Rochester International Jazz Festival are now on sale, and organizers are promising lots of surprises this year starting with changes to tickets. “We’ve got ...

“I don’t know where jazz is going,” legendary pianist and composer Thelonious Monk once said. “Maybe it’s going to hell.” Well, the devil and the damned are gonna have to wait because the Montreux ...

Get ready to enjoy free concerts on three stages as the annual Texas Jazz Festival returns for its 64th year Oct. 17. The three-day event will be open at Heritage Park from 5 p.m. to midnight Oct. 17, ...

The 2025 Detroit Jazz Festival attracted over 300,000 attendees to downtown and midtown Detroit. A global livestream audience of 1.5 million people from 43 countries tuned in to the event. The ...

In the long annals of the Monterey Jazz Festival, 2025 will be remembered as the year of the diva. That’s not to say that Instrumental virtuosity will be wanting at the 68th edition of the world’s ...

“I know it’s jazz fest,” Detroit poet laureate Jessica Care Moore told the crowd at Hart Plaza on Friday night, Aug. 29, “but we’re doing something different.” No lie there. Moore’s remark came in the ...

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Labor Day weekend ushers in two major events: the end of summer and jazz festival season. Once again, the city will celebrate one of its most treasured art forms with the Chicago Jazz Festival, which ...