at the 13th annual SteelStacks High School Jazz Band Showcase at SteelStacks in Bethlehem. The competition is a music-in-education program of ArtsQuest and the Moravian University music department ...

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Sitting in the window of the Artfunk gallery on Jackson Street in San Francisco is a painting of jazz legend John Coltrane ... The church based on the music of Coltrane and his iconic album ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A Staten Island high school band ... music, and his music has been distributed so widely through this program, is a tremendous source of joy for me,” said Wynton Marsalis ...

The ceremonial music of these groups contributed significantly to the rhythmic foundation of early jazz. The brass band explosion transforms American music By the late 1880s, brass marching bands ...

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Marsalis leads a take on Keith Jarrett’s 1974 LP “Belonging,” and Lehman interprets “The Music of Anthony Braxton,” revealing fresh lessons. By Hank Shteamer Great jazz composers are legion.

Roy Ayers, the jazz ... s Big Band when he was five years old. Soon, he learned piano and sang in a church choir but didn’t acquire his first vibraphone until he was 17. As he studied music ...

The Beta Band, the uncategorizable Scottish indie-rock band behind the beloved single “Dry the Rain,” will reunite this autumn for their first tour in over 20 years. The foursome will launch ...

“His sound mixed with cosmic soul-jazz is really what created artists like Erykah Badu and Jill Scott. It was just that groove. “That’s not to say people around then weren’t making music ...