Gideon Ampiere and Mike Cardozo are founders of the group Zikina. It's a fusion band combining jazz and improvisation with traditional Ugandan music. They're playing tonight at the Lake George Arts ...

ECM regularly tops lists of the best jazz labels though their full name—Edition of Contemporary Music—would argue for a broader scope of content. A substantial number of their most popular albums, ...

Picture the “default” jazz band we all imagine, then rewind history to see how that lineup was assembled by accident, technology, and American culture. We trace how brass valves, Civil War surplus, ...

Considering jazz is an art form that mostly makes it up as it goes along, it's ironically appropriate that printed records—i.e., data—from the days of its birth are decidedly sparse. We know, at least ...

As audience members took their seats, the Jazz Ambassadors stood onstage in crisp military uniforms, light gleaming off of their brilliant brass instruments. On Thursday night, Nov. 10, the Voxman ...

The last few years have been brutal for local band students. Hurricane Ida upended the last school year, keeping some students out of school for weeks and damaging some students’ instruments in the ...