The 2003 Jazz at the Hollywood Bowl series continued its odd seasonal start-up Wednesday night with “Rejoice and Swing,” a gospel-music-oriented program featuring the Eric Reed Trio, vocal group Take ...

For a lot of years, Vera Brandes couldn’t listen. Not once had she heard the bestselling solo jazz album of all time—Keith ...

A theologian (and amateur musician) explores the connection between them. William Edgar’s new book, A Supreme Love: The Music of Jazz and the Hope of the Gospel, is itself a work of love. Edgar, ...

When Annie Booth was learning to play the piano as a kid living in Westminster, she often found herself frustrated with instructors who told her there was only one way to play each song. “I just hated ...

Damien Sneed doesn't believe in coincidences. Each event in his life set a purpose and path for what would follow. "For me, God has been everything in my music and everything to me," he tells Jazz ...

Jazz musicians don’t waste words. When a pianist plunges deeply into the 100-year history of jazz from Louis Armstrong to Keith Jarrett, they say, “He does his homework.” When his playing blends blues ...

The first time saxophonist Dave Koz played Wolf Trap, he opened for Ray Charles, in a major moment of his early career. Now, a seasoned artist with 12 albums and 20 years of successes behind him, he ...

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Some Yorkers might not have heard of Earl Richard Johnson, Jr. (aka Big Juicy). But, if they ever listened to a contemporary recording of jazz, gospel, hip-hop, R&B — or a movie soundtrack ― they ...