LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's capital is normally associated with the melancholic fado music, but a new Portuguese jazz label is making a name for itself around the world with an adventurous approach ...

Within the annals of endless discussions about jazz, there has never been a lack of debate or self-questioning over the very nature of this Great American Music. On the list of possibly unanswerable ...

A circular field of empty seats, as if a swather had taken a lap in the center of Centennial Hall, dominated the view of Friday night’s Blue Note 7 concert. For an event honoring the 70th anniversary ...

Jazz of a worldly quality blew through town last week, when the so-called Blue Note Quintet viscerally and intellectually shivered the rafters of Campbell Hall, as part of the UCSB Arts & Lectures ...

Creedence Clearwater Revival—a band rooted in swamp rock, rhythm and blues, and Southern gothic Americana—became the unlikely financial engine behind one of the most ambitious jazz preservation ...

Composer, jazz pianist, and songwriter Gregory Golub has officially launched his own independent label—Gregory Golub—bringing together his complete discography under a unified artistic identity. The ...

On an uncharacteristically rainy day in March, Orange County native Yousef Hilmy, founder and creative director of Minaret Records, stood outside the glass door of a nondescript venue in Mid-City. He ...

Possibly the most prolific archival record producer in history, he was a founder of the Mosaic label, which became the gold standard of jazz reissues. By Giovanni Russonello Michael Cuscuna, who ...

There’s one thing that jazz vibraphonist Joel Ross and his fellow Blue Note Record artists love about the legendary jazz label. It’s not stuck in the past. As music has shifted and convulsed over the ...

In the late 1960s, the recording industry lost interest in America’s greatest art form. But in a small, dark club on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, jazz legends were playing the best music you’ve ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Few in music are as successfully eclectic as Don Was, a bassist, producer, bandleader and record label president. Reaching back decades as co-leader of the ...