According to Tom Lord's Jazz Discography, the French horn in jazz dates back to 1921. By the 1930s, the instrument was popping up on recordings by Bing Crosby and Woody Herman. In the 1940s, Artie ...

The term "creole" is one of those protean things whose meaning hinges on the context in which it is used. At the very least, it tends to suggest some degree of acculturation or multiple ethnic ...

The Big 6 Brass Band is celebrating its fifth birthday this weekend by putting feet into motion. The young but celebrated New Orleans sextet started Saturday playing a jazz funeral procession, then ...

As the doors of Music Hall of Williamsburg opened on Sept. 28, concert-goers of all ages wearing MF DOOM memorabilia quickly filled the Brooklyn venue — only to eagerly change their outfits for merch ...

The CBS News show “60 Minutes” recently proclaimed Jourdan Thibodeaux “Cajun music’s equivalent of a rock star,” saying he has become “something of a global ambassador for Cajun country and its way of ...

Martial Solal, a French Algerian jazz pianist who honed his fleet-fingered style alongside American musicians in postwar Paris and became a master of mood-rich improvisations that included the pulsing ...

YOU CAN. WELL, SOME SAD NEWS THIS AFTERNOON. NEW ORLEANS SINGER AND BASSIST GEORGE FRENCH HAS PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 81. FRENCH BEGAN HIS CAREER IN THE TRADITION OF HIS FATHER, THE LATE ALBERT PAPA ...

The Oshkosh Area Community Band will present a fall concert at 7 p.m. Nov. 1 at the Alberta Kimball Auditorium at Oshkosh ...

The streets and parks of San Francisco will come alive with music Tuesday, as countless musical performances break out for Make Music Day San Francisco. Part of a growing international festival, Make ...