On Friday and Saturday evenings, Hannibal native Andrew Ouellette can be found at the Ambassador Hotel in downtown Kansas ...

Publisher Elinor “Ely” Tatum Lou Donaldson — a preeminent alto saxophonist whose style as a disciple of Charlie Parker ...

Jazz music, which emerged in the early 20th century, did more than just revolutionize the world of sound; it left a lasting impact on fashion, influencing styles that were as bold, eclectic, and ...

During a trip to Europe in 1953, accomplished 20th-century jazz pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams was exhausted, ...

The U.S. Postal service creed asserts that “neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night” will keep couriers from their ...

His grandfather, the late Havana-born composer-arranger Chico O’Farrill, was a crucial innovator in the marriage of ...

Last month he brought his quartet to a sandstone building around the corner from the Fox Theatre and set up in a room surrounded by wood paneling and stained-glass windows where he performed for about ...

Lou Donaldson's career spanned over half a century, and several of his recordings were sampled in some of the most impactful ...

Jazz musician Roy Haynes, whose eclectic drumming style helped define the genre, has died, according to reports. He was 99.

“I conceptualize ‘jazz’ as an inclusive umbrella of a wide variety of styles that flow logically into preparing our students ...

Taking inspiration from “The Wizard of Oz,” an ensemble of dancers from Maui’s Move Me Dance Company will enact various scenes in a “Over the Rainbow” show debuting Nov. 23 at the ProArts Playhouse.

An irrepressible force who remained relevant over the course of a seven-decade career, he had a hand in every major ...