The Irving S. Gilmore School of Music’s Jazz Masters Series presents Luciana Souza, a GRAMMY-winning composer and one of jazz’s leading singers. Celebrated for her transcendent vocals and ...

Across his acclaimed career, Big Chief Donald Harrison Jr. has composed in numerous styles of music. He’s combined genres and broken them apart. He’s invented them, too. But in his newest pieces, ...

A celebration to honor this year's NEA Jazz Masters award recipients, including Marshall Allen, Chucho Valdés, Marilyn Crispell and Gary Giddins.... The NEA Jazz Masters fellowship began in 1982, ...

Terence Blanchard, Willard Jenkins, Amina Claudine Myers and Gary Bartz have been selected as the 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters. For more than 40 years, the NEA has annually ...

Baseball has Cooperstown. Hollywood has stars on the Walk of Fame. And jazz has the NEA Jazz Masters. For over 40 years, the National Endowment for the Arts has bestowed the honor to a select few ...

The Irving S. Gilmore School of Music’s JAZZ MASTERS SERIES presents master bassist and composer DAVE HOLLAND on Thursday, November 30 at 7:30 pm in the Dalton Center Recital Hall. Dave Holland has ...

BLOOMINGTON — Hearing live jazz music is like seeing history in the making. Whether you’ve heard jazz in the styles of American rappers and pop stars, or famous movie and video game soundtracks, ...

I recently attended several recitals by instrumentalists, composers, and arrangers from the renowned Jazz Studies Program at William Paterson University. The level of musicianship was uniformly high ...

"We were always looking for our own sound," alto saxophonist Gary Bartz recently affirmed. "We did not want to sound like anybody else." Speaking with The Late Set, a WRTI podcast, Bartz was referring ...