Here's a strange thought: Free music downloads available legally are better than what the masses are stealing. Either allows jazz fans to collect a diverse library large enough to listen to ...

Everybody has to learn for the first time what an MP3 is. Those new to such digital music jargon might also be put off by horror stories of song traders getting arrested, legal services ripping off ...

Charlie "Bird" Parker (1920-1955) may have left this earth at the young age of 34, but his contribution to music history was much more than a grace note. Every time a horn player attempts to play it ...

"For the avant-garde, it was liberating. It just changed everything." Submarine Ent. has debuted the doc trailer for Fire Music: The Story of Free Jazz, about the exciting free jazz movement of the ...

For some, Ken Burns’ 2001 PBS series Jazz was a definitive, open-and-shut take on its subject, as comprehensive a portrait of the genre as one could hope for. For others, the series was a major slight ...

Caroling and choirs abound during the holiday season in New Orleans, but so do less traditional performances — including a night of holiday music dedicated to free-jazz icon Albert Ayler and a ...

A good deal of free Rochester International Jazz Festival entertainment is available starting Friday, June 20, when the 2025 festival kicks off. The annual celebration of jazz music runs through ...

The beautiful souls that created free jazz — including Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry and Carla Bley — light up this new documentary from Tom Surgal. By Glenn Kenny When you purchase a ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Coloradans have the chance to see a Grammy Award-winning musician among several performances at a free jazz festival happening next weekend. There are fewer opportunities to jump and ...