Since first picking up the horn in fifth grade, Skerik has charted a less traditional route for a saxophonist. While…
Memorial day weekend 1921 started just like any other day in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma. One of the…
Joe Dyson has established himself as one of the go to drummers for some of today's masters of the music,…
We continue our dialogue with legendary bassist Marcus Miller with a focus on his current and more recent projects from…
Some of the greatest musical artists are those you can identify after only a few notes, whether Miles Davis' trumpet…
Historians believe the first violin dates to sometime in the early 16th Century. Gaudenzio Ferrari’s paintings show a three-string variant…
If 2020 has shown us anything, it is how quickly circumstances can change. One day you are living your “normal”…
Albert Murray once noted that “the blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people [but rather] the product of…
To those who have been paying attention to younger artists the last few years, Mike Casey should be a somewhat…
Neo-traditionalists like Wynton Marsalis and Stanley Crouch have long desired the classification of “jazz” as “America’s classical music.” While this…