Miles Teller is a star on a rapid rise, while veteran actor J.K. Simmons has featured in many varied theater, movie and television roles. Together they are kinetic in the new film “Whiplash,” where ...

I recently attended several recitals by instrumentalists, composers, and arrangers from the renowned Jazz Studies Program at William Paterson University. The level of musicianship was uniformly high ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The curtains lift on the Biamp Portland Jazz Festival on Thursday, and you can expect tons of great talent to hit stages across Portland through March 1. Many of those artists ...

Babatunde Lea's latest album is seeing greater success than any other in his four decades of playing jazz. By last week, "Suite Unseen: Summoner of the Ghost" had spent seven weeks among the College ...

James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. I usually have a hard time following competitive Super Smash Bros. matches, but honestly, they ...

Jan. 9 marks the 100th birthday of drummer Kenny Clarke. One of the founders of bebop, Clarke is less well-known than allies like Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk, but his influence is just as deep ...

Last month, the Yale Undergraduate Jazz Collective organized a pilot program offering free jazz lessons to a set of Yale undergraduate students from all musical backgrounds. The program offers remote ...

At the ripe ‘ole age of 23, Ray Nelson II already refers to his co-workers as “cats” and his work schedule as “gigs.” That's just part of the jazz parlance the Florida A&M University graduate has ...