The instrument hasn’t always been a central player in jazz, but the best guitarists have taken up the challenge of finding ...

The legendary jazz club Ronnie Scott’s is hosting its musical instrument amnesty event for 2025. The initiative is designed ...

To many, composed music and improvised music seem to be opposites, but in jazz, they merge in a unique fashion. It has been said that the best improvised music sounds composed, and that the best ...

Jazz and blues are types of music that can trace their roots back to the early 20th Century, in the southern United States. Jazz was very popular as it was a fresh, new sound. Different styles of ...

Saxophone virtuoso Charlie Parker, left, brought Miles Davis, right, into his bebop band in the 1940s, Davis’s first professional job The Original Dixieland Jazz band, pictured in 1917, the year ...