Jazz, Deconstructed, a new four-concert series, features local artists with visionary projects that stretch from New Orleans’ Congo Square to an electrocoustic jazz/hip-hop [...]

The Creative Soundspace Festival, now in its sixth year, ventures out to the edges of the musical universe to see what various pioneers [...]

As they stood in the wings at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in early February, about to perform The Baghdad/Seattle Suite publicly [...]

Cooper-Moore vigorously exercises his right to free expression, whether he’s storytelling, pushing the jazz envelope at the piano, or expanding the realm of [...]

Mark Weaver—tuba player, composer and founder of the UFO Ensemble—interlaces written and freely improvised elements to construct sturdy, expressive tunes capable of bearing [...]

“Positive.” That word keeps recurring in conversations with friends and colleagues of Zimbabwe Nkenya—bassist, mbira player, composer, educator, activist, visual artist and host [...]

Nature abhors a vacuum, as the maxim says, and so apparently does the stage at Scalo Il Bar. Every Friday night for several [...]

“It’s true, I’m working my ass off,” says Iraqi oudist Rahim AlHaj, on the phone from his Albuquerque home, “composing music and commissioning [...]

While Joshua Breakstone has been a guitarist since his early teens, cutting his teeth on Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa, his most profound [...]

A jazz musician’s most important asset lies on either side of his or her head. As trumpeter Bobby Shew said a couple of [...]