It should be a celebration for the senses at the 30th Erie Blues & Jazz Festival at Frontier Park from Friday through Sunday. An extensive variety of blues and jazz music acts, film screenings, dance ...

Political conscience occupies a special place in the quintessence of modern jazz, fueling, in its most heated moments, the stuff of blunt insurrection. It remains to be seen whether Political Blues, ...

The consistency of impressive quality in the worlds of jazz and blues in Nashville allows fans to enjoy great music year-round. The amount of noteworthy events makes it impossible to cite everything ...

“The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn’t know how other people would take it.

John Gunther teaches our jazz saxophone majors, including BM, MM and DMA students. At all levels, Gunther works with his students to develop and maintain a solid foundation in the physical aspects of ...

January 22, 2026 • In 1926, a generation of artists was born that reshaped jazz for decades. This episode celebrates eight centennials, including Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Lou Donaldson, Tony ...

Jazz and blues are types of music that can trace their roots back to the early 20th Century, in the southern United States. Jazz was very popular as it was a fresh, new sound. Different styles of jazz ...

The trumpeter and composer Russell Gunn will premiere “The Blues and Its People,” a suite inspired by Baraka’s influential text, to mark its 60th anniversary. By Alan Scherstuhl When he first read ...