Kuumbwa Jazz will cap its 50th anniversary celebrations on an impressive high note. "It's a family atmosphere," said Tim's son Bennett Jackson, Kuumbwa's creative director. "When artists come here, ...

When someone talks about "West Coast jazz" or "cool jazz," they're almost invariably referring to a style performed by jazz musicians in California (and primarily in Los Angeles) in the '50s and early ...

Working hard, you got $2 an hour for minimum wage, then you would pull up in your new car, which was $4,400 to buy fresh off the lot, to pick up a hot date for a new movie, like Robert Redford's Great ...

An old saxophone rests in its balding velvet-lined case. The worn keys seems fragile, the screws maybe loose, the metal tarnished. It’s on loan from local jazz musician Tom Hall, in an exhibit case at ...

FOR THOSE NON RESIDENTS. HEY, YOU CAN’T BEAT THAT DEAL. ALL RIGHT. SO LISTEN, WE KNOW THAT JAZZ FEST IS AN ANNUAL TRADITION FOR SO MANY PEOPLE. WHETHER YOU’RE LOCAL OR NOT. BUT LISTEN ONE NEW ORLEANS ...

FARGO — You may think a working jazz musician moving from New York City to Fargo in 1972 would be a step or two in the wrong direction. When John DiFiore got settled into the Red River Valley, the ...