Grammy winner Ranky Tanky merges jazz, blues and gospel, with sounds that preserve African American traditions found in the ...

Toledo’s Diva Audiences have known for quite some time this Toledo-based singer is one of the region’s true treasures. Sultry ...

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

One nice spring day in May 2024, trumpeter/composer Ambrose Akinmusire and his band—a distinctive lineup of pianist Sam Harris, drummer Justin Brown, keyboard player Chiquitamagic, rapper-vocalist ...

Topping our list of the best jazz guitarists of all time is a revered and profoundly influential Indianapolis fretboard genius who couldn’t read a note of music. Just using a calloused thumb to ...

John D'earth may have retired in December, but the music in front of him at the moment includes far more notes than rests.

Carlos Malcolm may not be a household name, but it should be. Without this now 90-year-old innovator of Jamaican music—this ...

A new recording features pianist McCoy Tyner and saxophonist Joe Henderson in a concert taped in New York City in 1966. The ...

The Locrian mode is the seventh and darkest mode derived from the major scale. Stuart Ryan takes you through the structure of ...

The Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO) will be hosting the Blue Notes: Duke Ellington, Wayne Shorter, Gwilym Simcock concert at the Brighton Dome ...

In 2018, esperanza spalding released the song “You Have to Dance” as part of her Grammy-Award-winning record “12 Little ...

It is a hugely popular musical genre with lots and lots of fans, lots of great artists and we are very, very proud to host it ...