Nnenna Freelon is one of those jazz singers I can listen to and never tire of feeling the warmth insulated in her every note ...

Delfeayo Marsalis’s Uptown Jazz Orchestra and the majestic downhome Gillian Welch and David Rawlings spark up the weekend.

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 ...

Some notes used in jazz music may be flattened by a semitone. These are normally the third, fifth or seventh notes of the scale. Musicians playing jazz sometimes use pentatonic scales and blues ...

"Mad Scientist Music"—the tag that Harry Schnipper, owner of venerated D.C. jazz venue Blues Alley ... lengthy stint as lead trombonist and Music Director for The Airmen of Note, Patterson brilliantly ...

The NEA Jazz Master tenor saxophonist George Coleman is known for his memorable opening solo on Herbie Hancock’s title tune “ Maiden Voyage ” (Blue Note 1965). That hardy muscular sound was his entré ...