There’s only one singer in the world who has their jazz scat solos sung back at them note-for-note by arenas filled with adoring fans. That would be Laufey, a Gen Z artist who transcends genre and ...

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The country’s biggest Women’s Jazz Festival is set to return to Hey Nonny Jan. 7 through 11. It will be the third annual installment of the event at the Arlington Heights music venue and bistro.

RED BANK, NJ — This Thursday, the non-profit organization Jazz Arts Project will launch its “Summer of Jazz” festival with a performance by the Grace Fox Big Band. Led by the "trailblazing trumpeter" ...

“Komorebi” is a mid-tempo bop workout with soloists trading licks in a relaxed pulsating groove. “Petrichor”, which is a hint ...

Words of affirmation are important when you’re a teenage girl – so when Bill Murray told Laufey Lín Jónsdóttir, the Grammy-winning jazz artist known as Laufey, that she was a “powerful woman” at 17, ...

Long overlooked in the annals of jazz history, women were not just muses or vocalists—they were creators, innovators, and fearless pioneers of a genre that continues to pulse with their legacy.

Even though women such as Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Nina Simone have names that will be forever etched into jazz history, the music industry as a whole remains quite male-dominated. That's ...

“Griot Songs” is the project that composer Omar Thomas has wanted to do ever since he formed his Large Ensemble in 2008. It is a soul stirring, heady examination of how Thomas views his role as an ...