Bob French was one of the legends of New Orleans' jazz. French was a drummer, singer and bandleader of the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band. He died Monday at the age 74. And let's take a moment to remember ...

Julius Watkins was an American jazz musician, and one of the first jazz French horn players. He won the Down Beat critics poll in 1960 and 1961 for "miscellaneous instrument" with French horn named as ...

“Jazz was an integral part of the artistic scene that centred around the St-Germain-des-Pres. So it was only logical that the young, new wave directors made films by day using the same music they ...

Even if you don’t know psychedelic French jazz-funk legends Cortex by name, you have probably know have probably heard elements of their 1975 album Troupeau Bleu. Tracks from it have been sampled by ...

Julius Watkins, jazz’s first major French horn player, would have been 100 years old this weekend. It naturally fell to D.C.’s only major jazz French horn player — 27-year-old Abe Mamet — to mark the ...

French jazz organist Eddy Louiss, who played in the Stan Getz quartet in the early 1970s, died Tuesday in a hospital in central western France. He was 74. By Colin Stutz French jazz organist Eddy ...

Paris (France) (AFP) – Michel Portal, a French pioneer of European modern jazz and a prolific writer of film music, has died aged 90, his agent said Sunday. A multi-instrumentalist at home with the ...

When the word “beat” is used in the context of the arts, it’s usually in reference to the Beat Generation writers: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, and William S.

At its best, jazz is hand-tailored music that can be shaped to fit just about any setting. For French-horn master Tom Varner, a concert in the intimate, resonant Chapel Performance Space at the Good ...

VietNamNet Bridge – The French Institute in Viet Nam will present Friends Reunited, a night of jazz music by the Mezcal Jazz Unit and Vietnamese musicians, at the Sofitel Saigon Plaza Hotel tomorrow, ...

As a seasoned jazz musician, Benjamin Petit is well skilled in the art of impromptu creation. However, there can’t be too many purveyors of the improvisatory art form who combine their evening gigging ...

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival gave itself an out, then opted not to take it. Contracts often stipulate that the festival must pay deposits to bands 60 days before opening day. Jazz Fest’s ...