If music can indeed somehow lead a culture in certain directions, we should be able to find some evidence for that. Let's consider the history of American Music in the last century.
Kat Edmonson | Posted 05.15.2012
Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.
Soren Petersen | Posted 04.30.2012
The idea of combining two opposing cultural expressions was to create a musical traffic jam and in doing so, invent a new and unique identity.
Kurt Ellenberger | Posted 04.30.2012
The education system can certainly expose students to classical music and jazz (hopefully enriching their lives by doing so), but it cannot make them love the music.
AP | KATHY MATHESON | Posted 04.13.2012
PHILADELPHIA — Music enthusiasts in the City of Brotherly Love are looking to rekindle a love supreme for the deteriorating John Coltrane House,...
Christoph A. Geiseler | Posted 04.10.2012
New York's reigning jazz queen, Mrs. Phoebe Jacobs, passed away at age 93. As the torchbearer of Louis Armstrong's continuing legacy she touched innumerable lives with her love, eye for talent, dry wit, largesse, incomparable energy and photographic memory
Posted 02.20.2012
A U.K.-based radio station's programmers are understandably red-faced after they inadvertently aired five minutes of a gay porn soundtrack. Pink N...
Posted 02.04.2012
HuffPost Arts' Haiku Reviews is a biweekly feature where invited critics review exhibitions and performances in short form. Some will be in the tradit...
Posted 01.10.2012
An upcoming Miles Davis biopic looks like it will see the light of day after George Tillman Jr. has agreed to direct. Tillman's resume includes the No...
Herbie Hancock | Posted 12.27.2011
My lesson for young people is to be willing to go out of your comfort zone and explore new territory. I never thought that at age 71 I would be creating a "crowd-sourced" music video with digital cameras that can blast images around the world in minutes. But I am.
Adrian Margaret Brune | Posted 11.07.2011
Racial disparity has become a core thematic underpinning for the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, nearly 50 years after a Tulsa race riot that was part of the lynchings and race riots of the era.
Ralph A. Miriello | Posted 09.20.2011
At the tender age of 29, trumpet player Ambrose Akinmusire, has garnered a plethora of accolades and acknowledgements this year for his recent work.
Kristi York Wooten | Posted 09.11.2011
This is not a blog about golf, although the two jazz musicians here in question will tell you their attempts to master the sport require almost as much time and energy as prepping for shows at the world's top music venues.
Ralph A. Miriello | Posted 09.03.2011
Last July 4, I decided to assemble a list of some notable musicians, arrangers, impresarios and singers in the world of jazz who had passed their 70th birthday. A number are still actively engaged, robustly performing in their own current endeavors.
Ralph A. Miriello | Posted 07.19.2011
Green is an effervescent pianist who digs deep into the marrow of a song to find different approaches to make it sing. The obvious love that that these guys have for this music is genuine.
Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011
Perhaps Christian McBride should have an affair with J.Lo, or punch Ashton Kutcher in the kisser, or sneak Lindsay Lohan out of rehab. They might be t...
Joseph Vella | Posted 05.25.2011
It's a harsh dose of reality when you realize that you're getting older and you find that your viewpoint toward what you love is not what it used to be.
Marlynn Snyder | Posted 05.25.2011
Abbey Lincoln's voice was a rare instrument -- scratchy and lived in, a voice that easily revealed her long and varied life experiences. But it was also a thing of great beauty.
wsj.com | STUART ISACOFFF | Posted 05.25.2011
During the '90s, while Mr. Iyer was cultivating his artistic voice at late-night gigs, his daylight hours were spent working as a physics major at the...
Posted 05.25.2011
Can't say he didn't focus on the music... Filmmaker Dan Pritzker's latest effort, Louis, is loosely based on the childhood of jazz legend Louis Armstr...
Cicily Janus | Posted 05.25.2011
Herman Leonard's photos weren't just a black and white portrayal, they were a movement among dedicated artists to take jazz from the small venues to the ears of the world.
nytimes.com | Posted 05.25.2011
This year the National Jazz Museum in Harlem acquired the entire set of nearly 1,000 discs, made at the height of the swing era, and has begun digitiz...
Joseph Vella | Posted 05.25.2011
I never would have imagined that the recent installment of the Miles Davis podcast on JazzOnline.com would set off such a firestorm of debate. But that's what happened when Henry Rollins was added to the mix.
Michael Bialas | Posted 05.25.2011
Born in Athens, Georgia, Peyroux spent her teen years in Paris, where she developed a love for jazz. But there are no musical boundaries for Peyroux.
Jessica Gross | Posted 05.25.2011
"I don't make music for people. I make music for music's sake," Hamilton said. "I don't care where I make it. I could make music in the men's room, it don't matter."
Kurt Ellenberger | Posted 05.23.2012