Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater will offer a full schedule of December programming in New York City, including ...

Entirely fresh and unexpected, a recording that is a little bit sexy and absolutely unmissably superb! This Sunday, November 09 New Yorkers will have more chance to experience the breathtaking singer ...

In the world of jazz and jazz-influenced popular music, guitar players have one major thing in common with male singers: The overwhelming majority of both seem to be either Italian American or African ...

In 1925, a remarkable jazz tradition was launched. On January 14 at New York, the no. 1 singer in all of American music, Bessie Smith, teamed up with a dynamic young trumpeter from New Orleans, Louis ...

Backed by everybody's favorite musical director Alex Rybeck and bassist Tom Hubbard, chanteuse Joanne Halev made her long-anticipated move upstairs to Birdland's main room for an elegant, thoughtful ...

The 'Maharajah of the Keyboard' as Duke Ellington dubbed Oscar Peterson—or, to his friends, simply O.P.—would have turned one hundred in August, reason enough to remember the consummate Canadian ...