the Reykjavík-born performer is hailed as the "only singer in the world who has their jazz scat solos sung back to them note-for-note by arenas filled with adoring fans." With a wide range of ...

Last year, the live band version of Heard Eye began a monthly residency at the Big Easy, turning the gig into a kind of Funk ...

The Davis High School Jazz Choir is thrilled to announce its landmark 50th Anniversary celebration with the highly anticipated Golden Cabaret benefit event. A two-night extravaganza on April 11 and ...

Richardson leads the dance with ... Kuhl's approach their solos with graceful rising and falling passages, decorated with lovely trills, tempered dissonance by Owens and supple bass passages by ...

Fela Kuti is renowned as the innovator of Afrobeat, a creative blend of his native West African music, James Brown funk, and big horn jazz rhythms that were meant for more than just jump up dance and ...

By the end of the 1920s, at least 60 communities across the nation enact laws prohibiting jazz in public dance halls. The introduction of Prohibition in 1920 brings jazz into gangster-run ...

Moore Billie Holiday is one of the foremost vocalists in jazz, whose emotional depth and ... facial nuances as she luxuriates in several solos during the performance. It’s all here: the expertly ...

In 1939, two consecutive engagements Ellington played were a dance in a tobacco warehouse ... who insist that all real jazz is improvised and that all the solos must be impromptu often claim ...

From big Broadway productions to jazz, dance, and beyond, there's a big season ahead in the heart of Downtown Milwaukee. Arts enthusiasts, rejoice! On Monday, the Marcus Peforming Arts Center ...