NEW YORK (PIX11) — This Juneteenth, a New York jazz lyricist and composer is not just getting recognition for having lived through a century of the holiday, she’s also being celebrated as an example ...

Many great players have suited up for the Utah Jazz in the franchise’s 50 seasons, but ranking players across eras is always difficult. Before we see who joins John Stockton and Karl Malone on the Top ...

The keyboardist and harpist Alice Coltrane has the disadvantage of bearing the last name of her husband, John Coltrane. He was already world-famous in the mid-sixties, when they married and started ...

It’s no coincidence that acclaimed jazz saxophonist Gerald Albright’s most recent single is titled “Living My Best Life.” It’s an apt description of the multiple-Grammy Award-nominee’s entire ...

Cutty and Zutty were there. So were Peanuts, Woody, Yank, Wingy, Red, Pee Wee and Willie the Lion.* Sammy Davis Jr. was supposed to come, but he pleaded “fatigue” at the last minute and didn’t show.

Vocalist Brenna Whitaker will return to her hometown for “Glamour of Old Hollywood Jazz Gala.” Courtesy of Kansas City Jazz Orchestra The artist and songwriter Romare Bearden once wrote, “The rhythms, ...