If you love jazz music and always wanted to play in a jazz orchestra, don’t give up your dreams and try out some of the easiest jazz instruments to learn. It is never too late to start learning. But ...

As a jazz subgenre, soul-jazz began to flourish in the early 1960s. A groove-oriented style built from the bottom up, soul-jazz usually begins with the bass player: You take a strong bass line, ...

Pixar Animation’s next movie, Soul, follows Joe Gardner, a New York City elementary school music teacher who has long aspired to be a professional jazz pianist. When an accident on the eve of his big ...

Jazz, with its roots in African American culture and its ability to constantly change, has made a wide array of styles over the years. From its origins in New Orleans to its global impact today, jazz ...

John Fournier is a saxophonist, pianist, composer, lyricist, arranger and educator. As a performing sideman, some of the artists he has had the honor of working with include Bernadette Peters, Jerry ...

When soul jazz was born in the late 1950s/early 1960s, it provided a pathway for the funky, window-rattling grooves of contemporary soul and R&B to infuse the muscular hard bop of the day. For the ...