On Feb. 1, the Jazz Foundation of America (JFA) will offer the perfect remedy to raise the temperature to a spiritual high with “Satellites in the Spirit of Sun Ra.

And so, in Jazz, we complete our trilogy of American life, finding in the music's lines and phrases and riffs not only a meditation on American creativity, but a joyous and sublime celebration of ...

Some notes used in jazz music may be flattened by a semitone. These are normally the third, fifth or seventh notes of the scale. Musicians playing jazz sometimes use pentatonic scales and blues ...

Ahmed Abdullah has written a fascinating autobiography, “A Strange Celestial Road: My Times in the Sun Ra Arkestra." ...

Here are the general findings in jazz music: jazz styles such as swing and bebop are very fast in tempo free jazz - a style developed in the 1950s and 60s - involved players in the same ensemble ...

Jazz music lovers coming to the upcoming Standard Bank Joy of Jazz (SBJOJ) can expect a multi-layered performance from ...

You can catch the group at DeGallery’s First Saturday on Feb. 1. The event begins at 11 a.m. with music starting at noon.