The University of Colorado Boulder Thompson Jazz Studies Program is an important part of the music scene in Colorado, introducing local audiences to the jazz leaders of tomorrow and bringing in the ...

Is jazz showing its age? (From the July, 1996, issue of The Atlantic Monthly.) A selective guide to jazz sites on the Web. It isn't just the generation gap between today's most popular jazz musicians ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A scene from "Cowboy Bebop: The Movie." (HANDOUT/SFC) When Mario A. Rodriguez of Wonky Power performance space/studio asked Woody ...

New York, NY (December 12, 2006) Bebop saxophonists James Moody (tenor) and Charles McPherson (alto) are two of the greatest living players of this exciting style of jazz and they bring the swing to ...

A big bop band with big name musicians creates one of the most exciting sounds of jazz, but it is something you rarely get to hear live. You will have the chance April 14 and 15, as the Berks Bop Big ...

When writers and critics wrote about alto saxophonist Frank Morgan’s music in the last two decades of his life -- the “lyrical, blues-rich voice,” “the ravishing melodies” -- they also wrote of his ...

Boston College’s jazz ensemble, BC bOp!, returned to Robsham Theater last Saturday with their Star Wars themed, “Jazz Wars: the bOp! Awakens.” The show offered roughly 20 high-energy, entertaining ...

The comments on the guestbook pages of the jazz septet, Afro Bop Alliance would swell any musician’s head. “Love your sound É wow,” wrote Patty Kenny last March. That same month, Joy Roy wrote that ...

Music, much like language, never stays in one place too long; it continuously changes and develops. When bebop came onto the jazz scene, for example, it didn't take long for this evolutionary process ...

As the lights dimmed in Bonn Studio Theater on Thursday night, the rhythmic pulse of jazz music filled the room to signal the start of Boston College bOp!’s Coffee House performance. Like a late-night ...