Beloved blues legend Joe Louis Walker had been praised by the likes of Mick Jagger and Herbie Hancock during his music career ...

Wynton Marsalis made history when he became the first musician to win classical and jazz Grammy Awards in the same year. He tells the BBC’s Katty Kay about jazz’s unique connection to liberation and ...

The Herbie Institute of Jazz sent five national music students and two well-known jazz artists to Topeka. Here's what they ...

After being featured on 'Late Show with Stephen Colbert,' Network for New Music is performing the piece inspired by Nina ...

Learn about the famous piano players of the 21st century, including their notable albums, awards and contributions to ...

A product of the San Francisco rock crucible of the 1960s, he fashioned his own brand of the blues, blending gospel, soul, ...

The instrumental funk band Lettuce is not close to wilting after more than three decades together. The sextet has new music ...

This is the first in hopefully many reviews I write this year, describing local musical performances as I endeavor to capture ...

Jazz class was in session for students at Topeka High as the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz tours Kansas public schools.

A quadruple threat as a saxophonist, flutist, composer and band leader, James Moody left an enduring artistic legacy that is still being celebrated 15 years after his death.

There are certain albums that, from the very first note, seem to defy time and genre – records that invite you into a sacred, ...

Out of all the essential instruments that are played in popular music, the bass guitar is almost always the least renowned. Lead singers, guitar players, drummers, even keyboard players—they are all ...