Tarik Shah, who played with jazz greats in his youth, spent years behind bars after pleading guilty to plotting to teach ...

Jazz is about following leads and balancing the possibilities of music. For jazz pianist Dave Solazzo, it is about balancing ...

Al Foster, the jazz drummer who performed in groundbreaking bands with Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and Sonny Rollins, has ...

Shelby is a bassist, composer and director of the Healdsburg Jazz Festival. He is best known for his compositions for jazz orchestra, including “Soul of the Movement: Meditations on Dr. Martin ...

New York-based saxophonist, composer, and educator David Bixler continues his recent streak of creative reinvention with incognito ergo sum—the second release from his boundary- pushing trio with ...

Dave Gutter is a Grammy Award-winning songwriter, musician, singer, and producer from Portland, Maine. Gutter has co-written ...

Assisting in this voyage of rediscovery are several top-notch jazz luminaries such as tenor saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi, pianist David Kikoski, bassist John Patitucci and percussionist Paul Rossman.

Saxophonist-bandleader-visionary Anthony Braxton turns 80 on June 4, and if you’re not familiar with his mesmerizing sound ...

Foster also played in the bands of Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson, and can be heard on Davis’ studio LPs On the ...

85 year old David Hirsch The sessions have grown in popularity, according to staff. “David’s Jazz Jam is something people here look forward to,” said Laura Blakeman, executive director of ...

On the evening of May 8, Revivalists singer David Shaw and Tank and the Bangas' force-of-nature frontwoman Tarriona “Tank” Ball sat side-by-side on a small stage in the Jazz Playhouse ...

In the case of the Modified Active Precision Bass, that means an active preamp circuit, a PJ pickup configuration with the addition of a Fender Noiseless Jazz model in the bridge position, a ...