Pianist Mac Chrupcala's quartet concert on Thursday, March 10, in the South County Jazz Club's matinee series at the Venice Art Center introduced most in the room to a new face on the Southwest ...

Curtis Fuller, an acclaimed jazz trombonist who was a key contributor to the bluesy hard-bop style of the 1950s and 1960s and who was named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, died ...

A Chapel Hill High School Jazz Band member and guest musician Matt Niess listen during Tyler Junior College's Jazz Festival at Tyler Junior College in Tyler, Texas, on Friday, March 1, 2019. (Chelsea ...

Jimmy Cheatham, a jazz trombonist and teacher who played with Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Lionel Hampton before forming the Sweet Baby Blues Band with his wife, Jeannie, has died. He was 82. By ...

Dan is an old soul in a young person. He has a quiet confidence and a respect for the history of the trombone. "I really like Urbie Green a lot," Harkins said. "I think he's underrated. His sound on ...

There are excellent lesson plans and then there are master classes. Glendale High School students instructed by teacher Amy Rangel are used to the first but were treated to the second on Wednesday ...

Ever since he was a kid, jazz trombonist Mark McGrain has heard the same request from his parents: "Play something we know." “As someone who always pushed the envelope,” McGrain recalled recently, “I ...

Wycliffe Gordon grew up in Augusta, Georgia, surrounded by music. The trombonist could’ve gone in any direction but found his way to jazz in his early teens. Gordon is presenting a Cityfolk Jazznet ...

Spending time with Mal Sharpe might result in your agreeing to try the impossible. It might be renting pigeons for $1.50 an hour in Golden Gate Park or considering grafting chicken wings to your ...