Across five decades, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival has experienced its share of offstage drama and onstage magic. Ahead of Thursday's opening of the historic 50th anniversary Jazz Fest, ...

When someone talks about "West Coast jazz" or "cool jazz," they're almost invariably referring to a style performed by jazz musicians in California (and primarily in Los Angeles) in the '50s and early ...

The problem for John Ellis UK as a teacher of brass instruments in the West Riding of Yorkshire, was that there were few resources or equipment available for him to teach his students the skills they ...

I was looking through my music collection and I realized that I really don't have very much music from the 1940s and early 50s (i.e. pre-Elvis, pre-Rock Around the Clock). Here's some stuff that I ...

Origin stories in the still-young-ish wild frontier of jazz festival culture can be fascinating case studies in feisty pioneer spirit. Take the Western Norwegian Vossa Jazz Festival, an important stop ...

FOR THOSE NON RESIDENTS. HEY, YOU CAN’T BEAT THAT DEAL. ALL RIGHT. SO LISTEN, WE KNOW THAT JAZZ FEST IS AN ANNUAL TRADITION FOR SO MANY PEOPLE. WHETHER YOU’RE LOCAL OR NOT. BUT LISTEN ONE NEW ORLEANS ...

If you think the daytime New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is jam-packed with music, you’re right. But after dark, music venues across the city are just as busy. As with the festival itself, you ...

After sharing my list of 50 essential jazz albums, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the process. In this follow-up video, I talk about how I made the selections, which albums were tough to ...