Hall's genius with a guitar had profound implications for the jazz band format, as six-strings replaced piano in the rhythm section ...

Award-winning musician Wynton Marsalis tells Katty Kay how growing up surrounded by music shaped his own journey with jazz.

Michael Brecker was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and exposed to jazz at an early age by his father, an amateur jazz pianist. Among the generation of jazz musicians that saw rock music not as the ...

the only son of legendary Canadian jazz crooner Kenny Colman, largely grew up without his father. He was raised by his mother, Kaysie, and a series of stepdads while his father Kenny travelled the ...

Multi-woodwind-instrumentalist and Detroit native Kasan Belgrave holds a unique stance in the city as one of the young torchbearers of the Detroit jazz collective. His father, the late maestro ...