“Jimmy Hamilton is hardly as well known as he deserves to be.” I didn’t say that (Stanley Dance did, in 1961) but I agree. While he gained recognition with Clarinet Summit in the ‘Eighties, and served ...

As billions pour into artificial intelligence, the late Fed chair’s famous warnings about market bubbles feel especially prescient.

Emcee David Muñoz talks about the upcoming 33rd Annual Balcones Heights Jazz Festival at the Wonderland of the Americas where ...

om Skublics is a full time, free-lancing woodwind player with over 35 years of experience on saxophones, clarinets, flutes and piccolo. Since 1998 he has played the lead woodwind chair in the ...

Nathan Tokunaga, who graduated from Belmont’s Carlmont High School this year, recently received the YoungArts Award. Past recipients include musicians Jon Batiste and Terence Blanchard. Courtesy High ...

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June 26, 2026 • To mark the occasion of Miles Davis' centennial, trumpeter Keyon Harrold put on a concert at Carnegie Hall and shared a candid conversation about the legend with Christian McBride.

June 26, 2026 • To mark the occasion of Miles Davis' centennial, trumpeter Keyon Harrold put on a concert at Carnegie Hall and shared a candid conversation about the legend with Christian McBride.

In 1925 the Jazz Age was in full swing. It was the year Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington made their first recordings.The Phantom of the Opera opened at movie theaters. The Ku Klux Klan marched on ...

The other great soloist in early jazz was soprano saxophonist and clarinettist Sidney Bechet. He was a different sort of virtuoso from Louis, and as well as spontaneous creation he composed setpiece ...

Discover a wealth of dominant 7th, diminished and chromatically colored chords to bring variety and sophistication to your ...